Perspectives | Exhibition by Horst Eschment

Opening:
18.09. 15:00 - 22:00

Reading:
19.09. 19:00 Horst Eschment reads from Hank Miller's Timeless Spaces and How We Met. Die Lesung findet auf Deutsch statt. The reading will be in German.

Regular Opening Hours:
19.09. 15:00 - 22:00
20.09. 14:00 - 22:00

What remains when time and space fade away?
What changes—and what returns, perhaps in a different form, in a different place, or at a different time?
The exhibition "Perspectives" brings together works from various creative periods, allowing early pieces to engage in a dialogue with more recent ones. A narrative arc spans from the early series "Berlin Kondensat" (Berlin Condensate) to the "Reflexionen" (Reflections), encompassing diverse artistic approaches.

Works on paper accompany this journey—some created years ago, others very recently. They bear traces of perception, memory, and transformation, while simultaneously seeking the "perfect" within the imperfect.

Canvas works and photographs offer further perspectives on spaces, moments, and forms—and on what lies hidden between the visible elements.
The exhibition is complemented by ceramic pieces: small clay works that resemble found objects—as if they possessed their own history, having been picked up somewhere and brought here from another time or from unexplored landscapes. Whether relic, fragment, or something nameless, their function and origin remain uncertain. They appear like fragments of a vast image still in the making.

The result is not a retrospective in the classic sense, but an open dialogue between past and present, between discovery and memory, between seeing and seeing anew. Perhaps each work is also an invitation to question and expand one’s own perspective, if only for a moment.

About the reading:
The theme of "found objects" extends to Saturday’s reading as well. Horst Eschment will read from Hank Miller’s *Zeitlose Räume* (Timeless Spaces)—a collection of poems and short stories.
The texts glide effortlessly between poetry and prose, between dream and trauma. Night is not merely a backdrop but becomes an active presence—flickering candlelight upon the skin of memory. Miller writes about desire just as he does about death: without shame, without sentimentality, and with a directness that almost hurts. His characters do not seek redemption—they negotiate it in the moment, in the body, in scent, and in gesture.
Inspired by the evocative power of Dylan Thomas yet deeply rooted in the present, Miller’s voice is a rare testament to lived poetry.

His language is musical, visceral, and often radically intimate—telling of solitude and closeness, and of what remains when everything else falls apart.
In this evocative and thought-provoking collection, Miller reveals the eternal, the ephemeral, and the spaces where they meet.

About Horst Eschment:
Self-taught.
Lives in Berlin.