The work of Volker Blumkowski is carried by a painterly lightness, poetic cheerfulness and a subtle pictorial wit, at the same time by a philosophical profundity: fascinating, painterly brilliant, creative boldness - Blumkowski makes us marvel. Here, someone with big - adult - children's eyes goes out into the world and to work. In doing so, he feeds his content from memories and experiences, things seen and historical - all flotsam and jetsam of memory. Above all the astonishing: impossible proportions, confusing perspectives, obscuring the spatial structure. Builders, painters, alter egos of the artist, are busy without knowing what they are actually doing, often with questionable ground under their feet, which not only calls their existence into question, but also shakes our perception.