Ausstellung: "Gestern habe ich die Zeit gesehen"

In the organizer's words:

Many people know Stephan Pflaum from his "Gay Pigs" cycle, with which he has regularly adorned Sub's newsletters and exhibition spaces in the past. Now the artist is showing drawings that he made for a book of poems by his brother.

The occasion for this was anything but easy. When Stephan's brother wrote his first poems in 2025, his wife was seriously ill. She played an important role in both men's lives.

Matthias Pflaum, Stephan's brother, began writing poems in order to come to terms with the impact and suddenness of her absence from the family's everyday life. Stephan Pflaum created the illustrations shown at the Schwul-Queere Zentrum Sub for the resulting book of poems.

While reading and re-reading the poems, the artist realized how poetically ambiguous the title of this book of poems, "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, which 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 collection "Gestern habe ich die Zeit gesehen" and the idiosyncratic, queer imagery of Schweinwelten.