Vernissage! Exhibition until 3 July, open Mon-Fri 12-5pm, admission free

CHA CHA CHA (Chagall Cover Band)
The title of the project is Taumel. It refers to current social and political developments and illustrates these influences on the (self-)perception of people in the region in a fresco-like, expansive installation. The central motif is the figure. The artist uses waste paper, self-made charcoal, Rügen chalk and gouache for his work. Photographic fragments are carefully incorporated. Some thoughts that Bumke expresses on the subject of "Taumel":
Welcome to expendability.
In the laughed-at jungle of values of worn-out morality.
My soiled conscience.
Traffic jam of conditions.
Arbitrarily drifting,
through the various levels of human expression,
with the feigned freedoms.
Images of the disappearing individual,
in front of the same old, mendacious promises of dissocial prosperity.
More betrayal than the promise of happiness and contentment.
Images of the meandering progression of repetitive events,
in a post-climatic heatwave.
Confrontation with the anger that suppresses free will
anger and the longing for aggressiveness.
Makes room for sentimental memories
and the same old excuses
for the omnipresent drama of political interaction.
In the roaring whirl of those
who demand attention and care loudly and quietly,
the time constraints of childcare, school and work.
Never free,
from tear-inducing excessive demands,
the incomprehensible, conflict-laden density
of life, love and consumption,
I am tired.
Small pleasures and big ones,
the life-sustaining reasons for good humour,
for the freedom to make considerate decisions,
against the simplicity of destructive impulses,
that so temptingly and so comprehensively brush the world smooth.
Look curiously between our feet,
and notice the inconspicuous.