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3Steps (Kai H. Krieger, Joachim Pitt and Uwe H. Krieger) in their studio in Giessen (2014)

3Steps [ θriː stɛps ] is an artist collective of the twins Kai Harald and Uwe Harald Krieger (born March 15, 1980 in Gießen ) and Joachim Pitt (born December 8, 1980 in Gießen).

The works of 3Steps can largely be assigned to Mural Art and Street Art . Her works impress with their bright colors and the contemporary reflection of a modern society.

3Steps Telephone painting, 2014.

In November 2014 3Steps was awarded the prize and the title Kultur- und Kreativpilot Germany by the federal government . The 3Steps collective lives and works in Gießen (Hessen).

Life

Development of the collective

3Steps was founded in Gießen (Hessen) in October 1998 by Kai H. Krieger, Uwe H. Krieger and Joachim Pitt as a graffiti and street art collective. From 2005 to 2010 she participated in international street art and art festivals in Europe and the USA. In 2006, 3Steps organized and curated the Graffiti Festival Big Jam and the Mural Art Festival Optical Confusion in Wetzlar with international greats from the young art scene. After completing their academic studies, the members of 3Steps founded a studio and creative studio in Gießen in 2012. This was the realignment of her work in the fine arts . The River Tales cultural project followed in the same year. On November 5, 2014, 3Steps was awarded the prize and title of Kultur- und Kreativpilot Germany by the federal government in Berlin for its artistic visions and entrepreneurial activity in the creative industry .

Short biography of the artist

The three founders of the collective were born in Gießen in 1980 and have attended the Liebig School together since 1994 .

Kai H. Krieger alias SiveOne discovered his passion for graffiti art and street art in 1997. From 2000 to 2006 he studied economics and political science at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen. From 2006 to 2012 he also completed his doctoral studies at the university there and obtained his doctorate as Dr. rer. pole. on the subject of guerrilla marketing in 2012 at the EBS University of Economics and Law . For his dissertation he received the young talent award of the BVM 2012. He has been working as a freelance artist since 2012, is the founder of a creative agency and curator of the River Tales cultural project .

Uwe H. Krieger alias Doc Nova discovered his interest in graffiti art and street art in 1997. In the mid-2000s he established an agency for graffiti art and mural art. From 2001 to 2008 he studied medicine at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and in Zurich. From 2008 to 2011 he obtained his doctorate in human medicine Dr. med. in 2012 at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen. Uwe H. Krieger is a freelance artist, doctor, co-founder of a creative agency and co-curator of the River Tales cultural project.

Joachim Pitt alias Mr. Flash came to graffiti and street art in 1998 through breakdance and the hip-hop subculture . From 2001 to 2009 he studied computer science at the Technical University of Darmstadt . From 2008 to 2009 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Information Management and Interactive Systems at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD) at the TU Darmstadt. He has been working as a freelance artist since 2012, is a computer scientist and curator of the River Tales cultural project.

The artists in the collective are members of the BBK Federal Association of Visual Artists via the regional association BBK Frankfurt of the BBK Hessen.

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Large format mural "Racetrack" by 3Steps in Wetzlar, 2012

Early work

In the course of the 2000s, 3Steps' style developed from classic New York style writing to large-format wall paintings, so-called murals . Since then, 3Steps has left work all over the world, from Gießen and Wetzlar to Munich and Berlin to London, Milan, Venice, LA and New York.

Work from 2010

Today's style of 3Steps includes influences from street art as well as style writing , photo realism , printmaking and pop art . The young works by 3Steps are contemporary reflections on today's world, which is shaped by changing environments made up of reality, fiction, advertising, media and dream worlds. The central subject of 3Steps' works are motifs that tell the viewer a special story. In terms of design, 3Steps take up characters, moments and scenes from everyday life as significant elements. In terms of content, the collective deals with the controversy of real parallel worlds.

The 3Steps portfolio includes works from large-format mural art to street art, paintings on wood and canvas, photographs and prints to installations. 3Steps use diverse techniques of creative urban forms of expression: wall painting with wall paint and spray cans, stencil technique ( stencil ), installations or the pasting of posters ( paste-up ).

Historical personalities

Juri Gagarin, Pop Art Portrait by 3Steps at the THM

Since the early 2000s, 3Steps has repeatedly portrayed historical personalities in contemporary history, such as Justus von Liebig at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen or Juri Gagarin at the Technical University of Central Hesse . Since 2012, this has also included paintings on wood in Pop Art and Street Art styles by Justus von Liebig, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Charlotte Buff as well as Goethe's fictional characters Werther , Georg Büchner and Luise Büchner or August Bebel .

Trabant S601 for the Day of German Unity

Goethe, Lotte and Werther portraits by 3Steps, Museum Wetzlar, 2014

For the Day of German Unity in 2012, 3Steps created a Trabant -S601 installation in bold colors. Stories and experiences of citizens about the fall of the Berlin Wall and the first trip from east to west after the opening of the border were processed in the installation.

River Tales

3Steps is the initiator and curator of the international culture festival River Tales | River stories .

Spyglass as a viral hit

The street art work Spyglass by the 3Steps collective became a viral hit on the internet through a social media post of the work by star DJ David Guetta. Within a very short time, the work was liked by over 200,000 people on the Instagram social network - with an upward trend from 2015 to today.

Awards, grants and collections

Awards

  • 2014: Kultur- und Kreativpilot Deutschland , Bundesregierung Deutschland, Initiative Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft der Bundesregierung, Berlin
  • 2015: Winner Start Up Weekend Space , STELLART art for space project, Bremen
  • 2016: Fellow , Ambassador of the Federal Cultural and Creative Industries, Competence Center for the Federal Cultural and Creative Industries, Berlin
  • 2017: off to the middle! | State winner 2017 , RIVER TALES street art festival concept, Hessian Ministry for Environment and Climate Protection, Wiesbaden

Grants and grants

  • 2011–2012: Kulturfond Gießen-Wetzlar , Kulturamt Stadt Gießen and Kulturamt Stadt Wetzlar
  • 2015: Culture and artist funding of the State of Hesse , Hessian Ministry for Science and Art
  • 2016: Catalog funding , Hessian Ministry for Science and Art, City of Gießen and City of Wetzlar

Public collections

Works by 3Steps are part of the following collections:

  • Museum for Communication Frankfurt , Frankfurt am Main, Hesse
  • Industry and City Museum , Wetzlar, Hesse

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2006: Frames and Details , Fraunhofer Institute , Darmstadt
  • 2006: Stripes and Circles , Urban Art Space, Giessen
  • 2008: Sugar on Concrete , Urban Art Space, Gießen
  • 2012: A piece of Wetzlar , enwag charity auction Hessentag 2012, Wetzlar
  • 2013: East vs. West Coast , Milvus Gallery, Giessen,
  • 2014: Ahead! a studio show , 3Steps Showroom & Gallery, Giessen
  • 2015: Welcome to Milvus County , Art in Licher Scheunen, Art Festival, Lich
  • 2016: Heard on the Street , 2CforArt Gallery, Salzburg
  • 2016: Fields of Memories , Wetzlarer Kunstverein, Wetzlar
  • 2017: art KARLSRUHE , One Artist Solo Show with 2CforArt Gallery, Messe Karlsruhe

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2006: Contemporary Art , INI-GraphicsNet Foundation, Darmstadt
  • 2007: 100 artists , Ludwig Forum for International Art , Aachen
  • 2008: Piece Out - The Art of the Letter! , Graffiti Comix, Belleville / New Jersey
  • 2008: White Gallery , Cyworld, Leipzig
  • 2009: Meeting of Styles , Cultural Center Neapoli, Saloniki
  • 2010: 100 artists , Museum Zinkhütter Hof , Stolberg Aachen
  • 2010: Style needs no color , Bloom Art.Fair 21, Cologne; Stroke 2 Art Fair, Munich; Pretty Portal, Düsseldorf
  • 2012: River Tales , 3Steps Showroom & Gallery, Giessen
  • 2012: River with Flair 2012 , art festival of the city of Giessen
  • 2013: One of us. August Bebel and Wetzlar , Wetzlar City and Industry Museum
  • 2013: East vs. West Coast Galerie S., Aachen
  • 2014: Luise Büchner - Life, Work, Effect , KiZ, Giessen
  • 2014: Stadtbotanik , Galerie am Bahndamm, Giessen
  • 2014: Goethe's Werther on stage , City and Industry Museum, Wetzlar
  • 2015: AprilApril , Galerie Artikel5, Aachen
  • 2015: Expressions , Galerie Hegemann, Munich
  • 2015: Hot off the press # 3 , Galerie am Bahndamm, Giessen
  • 2015: 3Steps Booth , Stroke Ltd. Art Fair, Munich
  • 2016: 3Steps Booth , COME 2016, Messe, Coburg
  • 2016: Opening , Art Forum, Laubach

Street Art and Mural Art Festivals (selection)

  • 2001: Wall Street Meeting , Wiesbaden slaughterhouse
  • 2002: Splash Festival , Chemnitz
  • 2004: International Meeting of Styles , Schlachthof Wiesbaden
  • 2005–2012: International Meeting of Styles , Theodor-Heuss-Brücke Mainz-Kastel
  • 2006: The Big Jam , Wetzlar
  • 2006: Optical Confusion - Meeting of Mural Art , Wetzlar
  • 2007: Brighton Hip Hop Festival - Freedom , Brighton
  • 2007: International Meeting of Styles , Zurich
  • 2007: International Meeting of Styles , Antwerp
  • 2007: Vlissingen Hotel Jam , Vlissingen
  • 2007: International Meeting of Styles - Big Dreamers , New York City
  • 2008: Urban Code , Venice
  • 2009: Int. Meeting of Styles - Beyond Materialism , Saloniki
  • 2009: Can! T graffiti festival 2009 , Antwerp
  • 2009: International Meeting of Styles - State of Mind , London
  • 2011: IBUg 2011 - Urban Culture Festival , Meerane
  • 2011: Can! T graffiti festival 2011 , Antwerp
  • 2011: Colors of the Wall, Cityleaks Urban Art Festival 2011 , Cologne
  • 2012: River Tales | Event of Urban Art , Giessen-Wetzlar
  • 2012: Urban Device , Grosseto
  • 2012: Can! T graffiti festival , Antwerp
  • 2014: River Tales | Event of Urban Art , Giessen

literature

Monographs
  • 3Steps: Milvus County. Monograph, illustrated book with numerous texts in German and English, Gießen 2016, ISBN 978-3-945991-91-6 .
  • 3 steps: Birds of Prey. Exhibition catalog, Giessen 2017, ISBN 978-3-945991-81-7 .
  • Project159: One Region. A bench. A wall. Monograph, catalog on the art in architecture project, Giessen 2016, ISBN 978-3-945991-59-6 .
  • 3Steps: Ahead !. Monograph, illustrated book and exhibition catalog, Giessen 2015, ISBN 978-3-945991-00-8 .
Further publications
  • Fraunhofer - IGD Darmstadt: Collection of the artists and exhibitions at the Fraunhofer IGD of the years 2006–2007. Fraunhofer - IGD Darmstadt, Darmstadt 2007, pp. 44–45, exhibition catalog.
  • Ole Zimmermann and Markus Christl: Stylefile Blackbook Sessions # 3. Publication, Mainaschaff 2007, ISBN 3-9809909-7-4 , p. 79.
  • Style needs no color: Black on White - Style needs no color. From Here to Fame Publishing, Berlin 2009, ISBN 3-937946-18-7 , pp. 36-39.
  • Cristian Campos: 1,000 Ideas for Graffiti and Street Art: Murals, Tags, and More from Artists Around the World l. Rockport Publishers & moamao Publications, Beverly MA / Barcelona 2010, ISBN 978-1-59253-658-0
  • Iosifidis Kiriakos: Mural Art Vol. 3: Murals on huge public Places around the World. Publication, Mainaschaff 2010, ISBN 3-939566-28-4 , pp. 20-21, artist lexicon .
  • Reinhard Müller-Rode: 3Steps Urban Art. In: Bogart. 4th volume, No. 7 , 2011, pp. 8–11.
  • Style needs no color: Schwarz auf Weiss - Vol. II - Style needs no color. From Here to Fame Publishing, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-937946-06-1 , pp. 120-121.
  • Cristian Campos: Graffiti and Urban Art: Murals, Tags, Stencils and Sticker. Loft Publications & Frechmann Kolon, Barcelona / Cologne 2011, ISBN 84-9936-771-2 , pp. 228-253.
  • Frank Malt: 100 European Graffiti Artists. Schiffer Pub Co, Atglen PA 2014, ISBN 978-0-7643-4658-3 , pp. 12-15, artist lexicon.

Web links

Commons : 3Steps  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Iosifidis Kiriakos: Mural Art Vol. 3: Murals on huge public Places around the World. Publikat, Mainaschaff 2010, ISBN 3-939566-28-4 , pp. 20-21.
  2. ↑ a b c Cristian Campos: 1,000 Ideas for Graffiti and Street Art: Murals, Tags, and More from Artists Around the World. Rockport Publishers, moamao Publications, Beverly MA / Barcelona 2010, ISBN 978-1-59253-658-0 .
  3. ↑ a b Daniela Will: Sat1 17:30 news. Excellent sprayer, TV report, In: Sat1 17:30 LIVE , January 16, 2015.
  4. ↑ a b c Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi): Kultur- und Kreativpiloten Deutschland - title holder 2014. ( Memento from February 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) PDF brochure of the Bundestag, 3.0 MB. Retrieved January 27, 2015, p. 10.
  5. ↑ Culture and Creative Pilots Germany . Funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Initiative for Culture & Creative Industries of the Federal Government, official website.
  6. ↑ World level in graffiti art ( Memento from February 25, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ). In: Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung. September 27, 2008
  7. ↑ Carmen Schmidt: There is dancing inside, spraying outside | Big Jam , In: X @ ct of the Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung. June 15, 2006, p. 14.
  8. ↑ Largest graffiti event in Central Hesse , In: Sonntag Morgen magazine. September 24, 2006
  9. ↑ Blazing Graffiti Magazine: Focus on Optical Confusion , Issue 10 Spring / Summer, Paris 2007, pp. 76-79.
  10. ↑ Stephan Scholz: High distinction: Federal government appoints local artist collective 3Steps as creative pilots. ( Memento from May 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Gießener Anzeiger. November 6, 2014, p. 18.
  11. ↑ a b Florian Dörr: Parental garage as the nucleus. ( Memento from February 25, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) Artist group 3Steps awarded by the federal government, In: Gießener Allgemeine. November 6, 2014, p. 28.
  12. ↑ a b Katrina Friese: River Tales - Colorful homage to Giessen, Wetzlar and the Lahn. ( Memento from July 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) River stories with graffiti artists from the collective “3Steps” - The special topic, In: Gießener Anzeiger. April 17, 2012, p. 12.
  13. ↑ Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi): ( Memento from February 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) “Culture and Creative Pilots” award ceremony and annual conference for cultural and creative industries. May 11, 2014
  14. ↑ a b Fraunhofer IGD Darmstadt: Collection of the artists and exhibitions at the Fraunhofer IGD of the years 2006–2007. house art, Darmstadt 2007, pp. 44–45.
  15. ^ Kai H. Krieger: Guerilla Marketing: Alternative forms of advertising as techniques of product staging. Springer Gabler Research, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-8349-4044-5
  16. ↑ a b Sven Werkmeister | JLU Career Center and Alumni Service of the Justus Liebig University Giessen: ( Memento from February 25, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) Alumni portrait: 3Steps. In: Career paths of JLU alumni. Retrieved January 27, 2015
  17. ↑ Emanuel Maxl: ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Laudation BVM / VMÖ young market researchers 2012. Professional association of German market and social researchers @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bvm.org
  18. ↑ Florian Dörr: Career with art. ( Memento from April 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Streifzug Magazin. April 2014, p. 37.
  19. ↑ Mitia Chiarin: Writer all`opera nee`ex deposito. In: La Nuova di Venezia e Mestre. Venice, August 10, 2008.
  20. ^ Frank Malt: 100 European Graffiti Artists. Schiffer Pub Co, Atglen PA 2014, ISBN 978-0-7643-4658-3 , pp. 12-15.
  21. ↑ a b Frank Röhrig: ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 3Steps - Three friends and their art. In: Galerieviertel.de. November 12, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / galerieviertel.de
  22. ↑ a b c Eva Grage: Excellent sprayers. ( Memento from February 25, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) 3Steps from Gießen, radio report, In: hr2-kultur. 20th December 2014.
  23. ↑ Pop Art Justus as an eye-catcher. In: Gießener Anzeiger. October 18, 2013, p. 17.
  24. ↑ Dagmar Klein: A comprehensive look at the bestseller | Werther exhibition in the Wetzlar City Museum . In: Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung , September 19, 2014, p. 35.
  25. ↑ Dagmar Klein: August Bebel meets Street Art. In: Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung. January 27, 2013.
  26. ↑ 3Steps design Trabi to celebrate German unity. In: Gießener Anzeiger. October 25, 2012. Accessed: January 28, 2015
  27. ↑ Klaus Pradella: Traditional sagas from the spray can. Pouring from gray to brightly colored. ( Memento from February 25, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) A radio report and online contribution, In: hr4 Radio and hronline. 3rd September 2014.
  28. ↑ Engelhardt: Excitement on the Net: Was David Guetta in Niedergirmes ?. ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Online contribution, In: Mittelhessen MIDDE der WNZ . June 6, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mittelhessen.de