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We want to increase the appeal of cycling as a regular means of transport. To engage with issues around cycling in our cities, we organise participatory programmes and artistic interventions which bring together cycling and communities. Join our movement to demand better sustainable urban mobility in our cities, all through the medium of arts and culture. Check our events and get involved!

Events

Join our mission to make artistic production more sustainable and seize the opportunity to use your art for change. CYCLE UP! artist-in-residence programme takes place in 2024 and 2025 in our five partner countries. Artists are working closely with local communities and decision makers to create thought-provoking art interventions and long-lasting connections with a clear ecological impact (read more about this in our sustainability framework).

Residencies

Join our Decision Makers network for access to new ideas and tools on how to shift perceptions and get more bicycles on the streets of your city through the power of culture! CYCLE UP offers decision makers at the municipal or local government level creative ways to engage people in these issues.  Members of the network will be the first to be informed about results of project activities and case studies implemented in partner countries through the CYCLE UP! newsletter. And in 2026, we will hold a final decision makers conference to present our learnings from the project. Get in touch with us by email if you have any questions.

adele.newman@goethe.de CycleUp! Decision-Makers (Form)

Piotr Sikora is a critic and curator of contemporary art. He has a master's degree from the Institute of Art History of the Jagiellonian University, Krakow and is a member of The International Association of Art Critics (AICA) in Poland. In his exhibitions, he refers to identity politics, stereotypes, and prejudices related to the region of Central Europe, and he explores the connections between pop culture, politics, and the art world. Currently, he is curator of the MeetFactory AiR Program and has initiated; The New Dictionary of Old Ideas and Other Edges of The World with Lucia Kvočákova. He is also a lecturer at the Anglo-American University in Prague and a devoted cyclist.

Lena Fließbach is an independent curator and author for contemporary art and an advocate for sustainability in the arts and culture industry. In 2020, she co-curated the international group exhibition Zero Waste at the Museum of Fine Arts (MdbK) Leipzig in Germany, which minimized its ecological footprint. For the program, she organised local cooperations with a repair café, a community garden and organised Zero Waste cooking events. In 2022, she curated the discourse series Zero Waste - Art and Knowledge for Urania Berlin with Hannah Beck-Mannagetta, combining experiences from science, art, and the sustainability movement.

Evelyn Grzinich is mixed-media artist and cultural coordinator, based in South-East Estonia.  She has participated, curated and organised cultural projects of local and international importance, from small to large scale since 2001. Co-founder and co-director of MoKS– Center for Arts and Social practice, a non-profit, artist-run residency center and project space in rural Estonia (active until 2019); She has also worked as a culture specialist in the local government association Põlvamaa Development Agency. Currently she is a freelance artist and the chairwoman of LOORE- Estonian Creative Residencies Network NGO.

John Hill is a writer and educator based in Prague, Czechia, where he leads the Fine Art Experimental Media BA at Prague City University and teaches Art Writing on the international masters at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he also co-curated the 2019 Diploma show Nejkrásnější věk. His writing has appeared in Frieze Magazine, PARSE Journal, Artalk, Blok Magazine and Camera Austria International. His practice-based PhD, which explored artistic collaboration inspired by network technology, was undertaken with LJMU's Uses of Art group, a partner of the L’Internationale museum network. His current work looks at organisational structures within and outside of art, including theatre, games, and activism.

Petra has a master’s degree in regional development from the Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University, Brno. Her focus has always been on how to improve the quality of life in any given place and she sees the bicycle as the most powerful tool in this mission. She is experienced in managing projects that promote cycling locally as well as internationally–as the board member of the Slovak nonprofit advocacy Cyklokoalícia and the projects & communications coordinator at the international Winter Cycling Federation. She lives in Trnava, Slovakia.

Martin is a co-founder of the WERKSTATT bike workshop in Brno, focusing on road and city bikes with an emphasis on cycling education and sustainable urban mobility. He graduated in Recreology from the Faculty of Physical Culture at Palacký University in Olomouc and holds a degree in Cultural Management from the Faculty of Arts at Masaryk University in Brno. Before the WERKSTATT he worked for the Czech Centre in Berlin as a culture programmer and at the Moravian Gallery in Brno in a production and organisation role.