Name: Cyrill Lachauer. The Sunset Route
Start: 2026-07-26T12:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-27T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Kunstpalais

Cyrill Lachauer at Kunstpalais: An exhibition about movement, resistance, and narrative landscapes

With The Sunset Route, Kunstpalais Erlangen brings an exhibition to Franconia that condenses photography, film, and installation into a multifaceted narrative. Cyrill Lachauer connects landscape with history, memory, and present in his work. The gaze wanders through spaces where freedom and vulnerability, being on the move and political reality inextricably touch.

A poetic autoethnography between rail and horizon

The exhibition gathers works from 2020 to 2026 and follows a visual language that arises from observation and experience. Lachauer examines places not as neutral backdrops, but as carriers of traces: of people, of work, of migration, of colonial power relations, and of individual departures. His idea of the narrative landscape opens a space where nature, material, body, and history converse.

Photography, film, and installation as an open structure

The installative presentation at Kunstpalais is particularly striking. Series such as Cardboard & Copenhagen and Birds (Nat. Geo. 1989–1999) unfold their effects in interplay with film works. The visual spaces remain fluid, fragmentary, and yet precisely composed. The use of disposable cameras, collages, and newly assembled workgroups sharpens the eye for the transient, the provisional, and the resistant.

The new trilogy and the sound of the present

With the two short films The Prologue and The Epilogue presented for the first time, Lachauer expands his artistic narrative to include political and geographical tension fields. Railways, migration routes, and working worlds become motifs of a present marked by upheaval. The exhibition not only gives shape to these themes but also atmosphere: concentrated, powerful in images, and of great aesthetic density.

Art education and museum experience at Kunstpalais

Kunstpalais sees itself as a place for contemporary art and cultural education. The exhibition fits into a profile that thinks through mediation, discourse, and aesthetic experience together. Those who engage in viewing the works do not just experience an exhibition but an art experience that reposes questions about freedom, self-determination, and responsibility.

Conclusion: The Sunset Route invites an intense encounter with one of the most independent positions in contemporary art. This exhibition deserves a visit on-site because it makes landscape tangible as a space of thought, visual space, and experiential space.