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Urban Bike tour light artworks.

Cycle route, 7.5km

Fancy a cultural and urban adventure after dark? Discover light artworks in Groningen from your bike. Start at dusk and tour these special and (often undiscovered) works of art that are not so noticeable in daylight.

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This is what you will see.

Swirl (Wervel)

Nicky Assmann

Nieuwe Markt 1 (parkeergarage Forum Groningen)

You can find Wervel in the parking garage of the Groninger Forum. Go to the parking garage in Schoolstraat. The parking garage is accessible via the bicycle cellar / connecting door to the garage. Next to the pedestrian door there is an i-button. If you press that you will get to speak to someone. If you say you're coming for Wervel, they'll let you in.

Untitled (3 pieces)

Peter de Kan, Albert Geertjes

Martinikerkhof 1 (Martinitoren)

Albert Geertjes and Peter de Kan designed three fences for the passage under the Martinitoren in 2001, which are intended to keep out public peepers. The fences consist of stainless steel bars, each in the shape of an organ pipe with a Gothic kink. Lights have been mounted in the curved parts of the organ pipes, so that in the evening peepers are literally and figuratively put on display under the lighting.

Light monuments Ebbingekwartier

Sjanet Bijker

Boterdiep 69 (fabriekspijp achter Simplon), Boterdiep 111 (hoek Bloemsingel), Noorderbinnensingel 14 (watertoren)

Pipe and artwork form a landmark in the city and represent the development of the Ebbingekwartier from industrial activity to creative industry. The light object on the chimney pipe consists of 72 LED lights that are mounted on the pull bands around the pipe. According to a fixed scenario, they regularly change color and shape.

Scrolling light

Krijn Christiaansen, Jeroen Bruls

Kastanjelaan 1 (station Groningen Noord)

Originally, the lamps reacted to the moving trains – the light moved with the train. In 2011, the artwork received new LED lighting. A new lighting program has been set up in 2019, with endless variations.

Lightwork for garage 2001-2005

P. Struycken

Ossenmarkt (in parkeergarage)

This light artwork in the parking garage under the Ossenmarkt is freely accessible 24 hours a day. The parking garage is accessible via the main entrance with a bank card or a parking ticket. Hold the bank card or parking ticket in front of the scanner (not too short) and the doors will open.

No monotonous grey parking garage under the Ossenmarkt, thanks to the light artwork by Peter Struycken that's shining here. For this work, twenty light boxes were constructed that are placed on the floor of the garage. These light up the 14.5 meter high concrete construction that forms the core of the garage in constantly changing colors. The principle of the color changes is based on light color mixing of red, green and blue light. By making the lights shine more or less strongly, the color changes are created when mixing.

Second Thought

Giny Vos

Stationsplein (rotonde fietsenstalling)

Above the roundabout in the bicycle shed, in a bustle of arriving and departing travelers, a snow house hangs upside down from the ceiling of the Stadsbalkon. Vos was captivated by the contrast and dispute that the Stadsbalkon and the main station seem to have with each other. With Second Thought, Vos mirrors the station from top to bottom, as it were, connecting the two structures underground as well.

Untitled (2 elements)

Albert Geertjes, Maarten Schmitt

Griffeweg (Griffebrug)

The bridge over the Winschoterdiep has an explicitly visible technique: large hydraulic cylinders, each with a pump house, act as an eye-catcher on both sides of the bridge deck. In total, approximately 7,000 kilos of glass have been cut and sawn into large and small triangles.

Bus stops

Loes Heebink, Shlomo Schwarzberg

Oosterstraat 36 (op de stoep), Gelkingestraat (tegenover nr. 32)

The neon-lit organs on top of the bus stop refer to the center and periphery of the city. When you enter the city by bus, you pass the red heart in the Oosterstraat, a symbol for the center and the dynamic activity around it. When you leave the city, you travel via Gelkingestraat past the green lungs – referring to the suburbs – to the peace and space.