Education
After an education in wood sculpture, Helmke attended postgraduate studies in free art at the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences in Alfter which he completed in the summer of 1998.
After an education in wood sculpture, Helmke attended postgraduate studies in free art at the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences in Alfter which he completed in the summer of 1998.
Since then Helmke has lived and worked as a freelance sculptor in Cologne. He spends the summer months on the North Sea island of Spiekeroog. All designs are created on Spiekeroog and implemented in bronze in Cologne. in public space “De Utkieker”, Spiekeroog, 2007 “Figur die auf Eimern balanciert” (Figure balancing on buckets), Wipperfürth, Germany 2009 “Le rêveur sur une grande chaise” (Dreamer on a big chair), Maison des Arts, Lingolsheim, France, 2013 art Karlsruhe Karlsruhe, Germany (annually since 2005) ART.FAIR Cologne (2011- 2013).