Julie Glassberg accompanied the members of the Black Label Bike Clubs for years which organise the Bike Kills. The latter builds record-breaking penny-farthing bicycles. Seelie, a bicycle enthusiast himself, also takes part in the Easy Rider Road Show with another series about riding bicycles as a community and also the Cuban bike enthusiast Félix Ramón Guirola Cepero. In this regular event punks present their self-made bicycle constructions and compete against each other. Since then, he has never missed a single annual meet-up celebrating the »mutant bicycle«. The photographer Tod Seelie already took photographs of the first New York Bike Kill in 2002. The exhibition at Märkisches Museum will be accompanied by film screenings and discussion events, please visit for details. The Easy Rider Road Show presents the bicycle as a vehicle for collective action, as a promise of freedom and as a good luck charm. The bicycle has the potential to change life in the city and, in the end, even the city itself. When many people ride bicycles, changes are initiated. Cycling culture is in constant interaction with fashion, music, design, politics, urban planning and traffic concepts. In Mexico City, former gang members discovered their love for extraordinary bicycles, and in Berlin, punks fight against each other on high bikes in a kind of knight tournament.Ĭycling is not just a form of transportation. The photographs lead around the world: to an annual festival of self-made bicycles in New York and to a youthful bicycle movement in London, which crosses the British capital by “wheelie” – the front wheel in the air. The pictures shown by international photographers tell stories of subcultures and communities that explore the world by bike. 2) of the Easy Rider Road Show, which has a place in the museum as an extended special exhibition. They are at the center of the second part (Vol. Now the cargo bikes are exhibited in the Märkisches Museum. Unfolded like the solar sails of a spaceship, it unfolded into a photo exhibition in the middle of an urban space. The mobile exhibition toured Berlin on five converted cargo bikes every weekend in August and September, stopping at previously announced locations. 1) as an exhibition on bicycles about bicycles. The Easy Rider Road Show started in the first part (Vol. With photographic projects from the limits of the means of transport, the exhibition project wants to stimulate utopian thinking and raise the question of where the bike can take us. The Easy Rider Road Show shows the wild, subversive side of cycling and the strong bond that cycling can create between people. An Exhibition About the Bicycle as a Utopia.
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