Gestern habe ich die Zeit gesehen - Vernissage und Lesung

On June 6, 2026 at 20:00, the exhibition "Gestern habe ich die Zeit gesehen" by Stephan Pflaum will open at Sub with a reading and a workshop talk in room 1+2 of Sub.

On display will be illustrations that Stephan Pflaum created in 2025 for his brother Matthias Pflaum 's book of poetry of the same name. During this time, Matthias' wife, who has also played a very important role in Stephan's life since his childhood, fell seriously ill. In order to come to terms with the force and suddenness of her absence from the family's everyday life, he began to write poems during the first days of her hospitalization. Reading and re-reading the poems, he realized how poetically ambiguous the title "When your love is sick" can be understood. Stephan's drawings therefore accompany the poems in a special way: Each illustration has a front and a back. Like a mirror, they open up a second view of the picture - and tell of memory, longing and the question of where time has gone.

The exhibition is complemented by selected works from Stephan Pflaum's artistic visual world schweinwelten.de. Among other things, works from the "Gay Pigs" cycle are on display. The gay pigs can be purchased on site in return for a donation to the sub.

The exhibition thus combines two areas of work: the quiet, poetic illustrations for the poetry book "Gestern habe ich die Zeit gesehen" and the idiosyncratic, queer visual language of the pig worlds.