Hera 'The World Needs All The Super-Heroes It Can Get' Print Available

Artist: Hera
Title: The World Needs All The Super-Heroes It Can Get
Medium: 3 Color Lithograph
Size: 24 x 30 Inches
Edition: 100
Price: €570

 

Hera is the public alias of Jasmin Siddiqui, the Frankfurt-raised half of German streetart duo Herakut. Born in 1981 to a Pakistani-German family, she grew up between two languages and cultural codes, an experience that feeds her image-making today. While studying art therapy she began painting walls with fellow student Akut, forming Herakut in 2002 and quickly gaining notice for their dreamlike murals that merge her gestural drawing with his photorealistic spray technique.

Hera’s role centres on storytelling. She sketches loose, expressive figures in charcoal or watered-down acrylic, allowing drips and splashes to remain as emotional evidence. Giant children, weary elephants and cloaked storytellers stare out from brick façades, their eyes often half closed as if weighed down by unseen burdens. Around these protagonists she writes short poetic lines in English or German, fragmentary thoughts on innocence, exile and resilience that invite passers-by to pause and complete the narrative.

Her palette is muted yet tender: dusty roses, bruised purples and moonlit blues swirl together, creating atmospheres that feel both comforting and unsettling. She applies paint with brushes, rags and fingers, leaving fingerprints and gritty brush marks visible, proof that the wall is alive and breathing.

When not travelling for festivals or commissions, Hera works in the studio on canvas and paper pieces, often layering old children’s book pages beneath translucent washes, embedding forgotten stories into new ones. Through every image she offers a gentle reminder: vulnerability is not weakness, but a bridge that connects disparate lives across concrete and language.