Ma Soeur Cent Têtes

Ma soeur cent têtes is a feminist stencil project by the Viennese media and performance artist Maria Hera.
"I love to empower and encourage women through my art. As a young art student I suddenly became aware, that all of my heroes, role models, the characters from books and movies I identified with, where men. All the stories, all the adventures, all the achievements weren't really meant for me, didn't really tell MY story, didn't really show my experience. So I began to search for female role models in art, science, politics and so on. First I just drew them, read their biographies, tired to find their secret message within their images. But I wanted more, I wanted visibility and attention for my heroines, for all female heroines of all times. So in summer 2012 I started to create stencils out of the images of these sisters of my heart and spray them all over Vienna as well as the cities I travelled to. Accompanied by a QR-code, one could scan the code linked to the english Wikipedia site of each woman to access the information about her accomplishments and thus shape this outstanding women out of the mists of history and give them not only an image, but a loud voice.
On one can find a documentation of each stenciled woman, s...

Studied conceptual art at the University of applied Arts and Science Hannover, DE at Prof.In Sigrun Jakubaschke and Prof. Bernhard Garbert. Masterclass of Prof. Bernhard Garbert.

Exhibitions/Performances:
http://mariahera.weebly.com/exhibitionsprojects.html