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Bedburg-Hau / Kleve / Duisburg / Krefeld / Meerbusch / Mönchengladbach / Düsseldorf / Neuss / Leverkusen. To celebrate the 100th birthday of Joseph Beuys, North Rhine-Westphalia is putting people and artists, their ideas and works in the spotlight. Many tracks and stations can still be traced today and the best way to get between them is by cycling: under the heading “Beuys & Bike”, a specially developed cycle route in North Rhine-Westphalia links places that have played an important role in his life and work.
His birthplace, the first studio, important works or museums and galleries that made his work known early on: places that played an important role in his life and work are linked by the new cycle route and can thus be actively experienced. With a total distance of around 300 kilometers, “Beuys & Bike” leads to very different stations in Bedburg-Hau, Kleve, Duisburg, Krefeld, Mönchengladbach, Düsseldorf, Neuss and Leverkusen. Whether a day tour or a multi-day cycling holiday: Anyone who sets out by bike not only gets to know the artist and his art, but also the beautiful Lower Rhine with its historic town centers, magnificent castles and pristine floodplain landscapes. You don’t need your own bike for this: bike rental systems like the one from “NiederrheinRad”, which has over 30 rental stations throughout the region, make it unnecessary to transport your own bike.
Once in the saddle, the bike rolls almost by itself, because cyclists don’t have to fear any inclines on the Lower Rhine. Nevertheless, the flat landscape with meadows, fields, rivers and lakes has many highlights worth seeing, especially with a view of Beuys. The Museum Schloss Moyland in Bedburg-Hau not only offers the world’s largest collection of Beuys works, but is also an impressive moated castle, in whose historical park with herb garden an important collection of sculptures has found its home. In the former Kurhaus in Kleve, now an art museum, visitors can visit Beuy’s first studio, look at his early work and then stroll through the baroque gardens. Traces of Beuys can be seen all over the city of Düsseldorf, including one of the “7000 oaks” including a basalt stele from what is perhaps his most important art project, a stove pipe on a museum wall and old town pubs where he met his students.
In Mönchengladbach, where Beuys was able to show several actions and his first major museum exhibition, the artist himself can be seen as a work of art, in a new mural near the Abteiberg Museum. And as a special treat: around the Abteiberg, the digital Beuys tour with the YONA app offers an exciting flashback with interaction: Augmented Reality makes it possible for you to leave a statement or be artistically creative on the same wall as Joseph Beuys did back then Simply download the free YONA app and scan the stations. The stations and more information are available at https://deinmg.de/project/joseph-beuys/
Further information on the numerous stations, current anniversary exhibitions throughout North Rhine-Westphalia as well as further links to route recommendations and touristic tours on site can be found at www.dein-nrw.de/beuys and https://beuys2021.de/
About Beuys & Bike
Beuys & Bike “is a project of Tourismus NRW in close partnership with the project office beuys 2021 and Düsseldorf Tourismus GmbH, Duisburg Kontor, City of Kleve – Economy and Tourism, City of Krefeld – City Marketing, Marketing Society Mönchengladbach mbH, Niederrhein Tourismus GmbH, Economic Development of the Rhine -Kreises Neuss, the ADFC, Foundation Museum Schloss Moyland and other museums and institutions.
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