When is the exhibition open?

The exhibition runs from 2026-06-20 00:00:00 to 2026-09-27 18:00:00. Kunstpalais is open during exhibition hours from Tuesday to Sunday from 10 AM to 6 PM, and until 8 PM on the first Thursday of the month.

What is the entry fee?

The regular entry fee is 8 euros, reduced entry is 4 euros. Free entry is available for certain eligible individuals, such as holders of ErlangenPass or EntdeckerPass.

Is Kunstpalais accessible?

Yes, the exhibition spaces are accessible through a ground-level side entrance, and the lower-level rooms are accessible by elevator. There are also seating options and a disability-friendly restroom.

Are there tours or mediation offers?

Yes, Kunstpalais works with guided tours and workshop programs and places great value on art mediation. For current dates, the official website of the house is recommended.

How do I get there best?

Kunstpalais is centrally located at the marketplace in Erlangen and can be reached in about a 5-minute walk from the train station. By car, access is via the A 73, exit Erlangen Zentrum.

Can I take photos in the exhibition?

Information to follow. Kunstpalais usually publishes the exact photography rules on its official website.

Landscape, Film and Freedom: Cyrill Lachauer at Kunstpalais Erlangen

Name: Cyrill Lachauer. The Sunset Route
Start: 2026-08-12T12:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-27T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Kunstpalais

An exhibition about landscape, movement, and the narration of spaces

At Kunstpalais Erlangen, Cyrill Lachauer. The Sunset Route offers an intense view of the landscape as a culturally charged space. The exhibition brings together works from 2020 to 2026, combining photography, film, and installation into a poetic autoethnography about freedom, self-determination, resistance, as well as colonization, exclusion, and exploitation. Curated by Susanne Touw and Malte Lin-Kröger, it creates an art experience that intertwines present and memory both precisely and atmospherically. ([kunstpalais.de](https://www.kunstpalais.de/de/117/Ausstellung-Detailseite.html/Cyrill-Lachauer-The-Sunset-Route%3A112.html?referingPageNr=6))

Landscape as a speaking space

Lachauer, born in 1979 in the Inntal region, uses a visual language that understands landscape not as a backdrop, but as a bearer of history. His idea of the narrating landscape includes physical realities as well as people, animals, objects, atmospheres, and historical inscriptions. This is precisely where the special quality of this exhibition lies: it calls for contemplation of the works and opens a space for thought in which artistic research and aesthetic experience confront each other directly. ([kunstpalais.de](https://www.kunstpalais.de/de/117/Ausstellung-Detailseite.html/Cyrill-Lachauer-The-Sunset-Route%3A112.html?referingPageNr=6))

Film trilogy, photographic condensation

At the center are the projects Slack, The Prologue, and The Epilogue, each invoking different geographical and political spaces. The works negotiate railway lines, migration, mining, social upheavals, and a generational experience between departure and loss. Additionally, the series Cardboard & Copenhagen and Birds (Nat. Geo. 1989–1999), where disposable camera, collage, and montage merge into a dense poetic imagery. Especially the bird forms create a fragile tension between beauty, destruction, and resistance. ([kunstpalais.de](https://www.kunstpalais.de/de/117/Ausstellung-Detailseite.html/Cyrill-Lachauer-The-Sunset-Route%3A112.html?referingPageNr=6))

The Kunstpalais as a venue for contemporary art

Kunstpalais sees itself as a museum for international contemporary art in the city of Erlangen. It showcases four to six changing exhibitions per year and places particular emphasis on mediation, curatorial precision, and open social discourses. The exhibition on Cyrill Lachauer fits into this line: it makes complex themes accessible without simplifying them, inviting intense engagement with art history, social reality, and cinematic visual language. ([kunstpalais.de](https://www.kunstpalais.de/en/132/Mission-Statement.html))

Visit, atmosphere, and mediation

The exhibition spaces at Kunstpalais are accessible via an elevator; there are also seating options and a disability-friendly restroom available. The building is centrally located at the Erlangen marketplace, just a few minutes' walk from the train station. The Kunstpalais is regularly open from Tuesday to Sunday from 10 AM to 6 PM, with extended hours until 8 PM on the first Thursday of the month. This creates an ideal framework for a concentrated art experience with urban ease. ([kunstpalais.de](https://www.kunstpalais.de/de/133/Besuch-planen.html))

Conclusion

Cyrill Lachauer. The Sunset Route impressively demonstrates how contemporary art interconnects landscape, history, and social reality. Anyone interested in photography, film, installation, and critical contemporary art will find an exhibition of great formal strength and substantive depth at Kunstpalais Erlangen. A visit is absolutely worthwhile live. ([kunstpalais.de](https://www.kunstpalais.de/de/117/Ausstellung-Detailseite.html/Cyrill-Lachauer-The-Sunset-Route%3A112.html?referingPageNr=6))