Urban Bike tour light artworks.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This smooth column by André Volten is more than thirteen meters high and appears almost completely split. It is hidden between the trees in front of the police station on the Rademarkt. It is only in the evening that he starts to stand out, when the lamps inside the sculpture are switched on.

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.