HERAKUT (GER)

Hera & Akut are two graffiti artists from Frankfurt and Erfurt, Germany. They began working together in 2004 when they met at the Urban Art Festival in Spain. From the beginning, their meeting of styles under the symbiosis, Herakut, has created a distinctive signature which is taking the art world by storm. Akut is a founding member of the world’s most renowned photorealistic graffiti crew, MaClaim. Hera works freestyle. When the duo paints together, they do shift work. After a background done by Hera, Akut creates a detailed layer for a face without knowing what kind of body Hera will add the end. The reason for mixing these two different signatures is simply for the element of surprise. The final picture always seems slightly schizophrenic, because a character by Herakut always contains two different moods at the same time. Herakut have exhibited worldwide and their work has been published in various art books.