How much is the admission for the exhibition?

The regular admission at Kunstpalais is 8 euros, reduced 4 euros.

When can I visit the exhibition?

During the exhibition runtime, Kunstpalais is open from Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., every first Thursday additionally until 8 p.m.

Are there guided tours for the exhibition?

Yes, Kunstpalais offers public tours and other mediation formats. Details are available in the house's program.

Is Kunstpalais accessible for people with disabilities?

Yes, the exhibition spaces in the basement are accessible by elevator.

How do I get to Kunstpalais?

Kunstpalais is located at Marktplatz 1 in Erlangen and is about a 5-minute walk from the train station according to visitor information.

Are there offerings for children and youth?

Yes, Kunstpalais offers educational formats, workshops, and tours for different age groups.

Landscape, Freedom, and Film: Cyrill Lachauer at Kunstpalais Erlangen

Name: Cyrill Lachauer. The Sunset Route
Start: 2026-08-23T12:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-08-23T12:00:00+02:00
Location: Kunstpalais

Cyrill Lachauer. The Sunset Route at Kunstpalais: a journey through landscape, film and photography

With The Sunset Route, Kunstpalais Erlangen opens an exhibition space where landscape does not appear as a backdrop, but as a speaking, historically charged experiential space. Cyrill Lachauer, born in 1979 in the Inntal, combines photographic and filmic work into a poetic autoethnography about freedom, self-determination, resistance, colonization, exclusion, and exploitation. The exhibition showcases works from the years 2020 to 2026 and brings together films, photographs, and installation elements into a dense narrative about movement, transition, and memory. ([kunstpalais.de](https://www.kunstpalais.de/de/117/Ausstellung-Detailseite.html/Cyrill-Lachauer-The-Sunset-Route%3A112.html?referingPageNr=6))

Landscape as a narrative space

Lachauer’s work thinks of landscape as a multi-layered place: physical environment, cultural trace, political reality, and atmospheric density at the same time. His idea of narrative landscapes makes visible how places are shaped by people, animals, stories, objects, and voids. It is precisely this perspective on the work that gives the exhibition a special atmosphere, where documentary precision and poetic imagery mutually reinforce each other. ([kunstpalais.de](https://www.kunstpalais.de/de/117/Ausstellung-Detailseite.html/Cyrill-Lachauer-The-Sunset-Route%3A112.html?referingPageNr=6))

Filmic trilogy and photographic series

At the center is the film Slack, supplemented by the short films The Prologue and The Epilogue, which thematically connect through the motif of the railroad. Additionally, the series Cardboard & Copenhagen and Birds (Nat. Geo. 1989–1999) join, whose visual logic shifts between casual snapshot, collage, and political metaphor. This creates an art experience where the aesthetic experience of fragment, rhythm, and montage is emphasized. ([kunstpalais.de](https://www.kunstpalais.de/de/117/Ausstellung-Detailseite.html/Cyrill-Lachauer-The-Sunset-Route%3A112.html?referingPageNr=6))

Political topographies and mobile biographies

The exhibition directs attention to transnational routes: freight trains, migratory movements, border spaces, and labor migration. Lachauer traveled for years through the USA, Mexico, and Bosnia; his practice investigates how mobility remains intertwined with social inequality, fantasies of freedom, and historical violence. This makes The Sunset Route an exhibition that convincingly combines art-historical classification with references to the present. ([kunstpalais.de](https://www.kunstpalais.de/de/117/Ausstellung-Detailseite.html/Cyrill-Lachauer-The-Sunset-Route%3A112.html?referingPageNr=6))

Curating, mediation, and visitor experience

Curated by Susanne Touw and Malte Lin-Kröger, the exhibition is conceived as an installed overall composition. Kunstpalais also sees itself as a house with pronounced cultural education: public tours, workshops, and mediation formats provide access for different target groups. Visitors encounter a museum for contemporary art, located in the center of Erlangen, accessible without barriers via an elevator, and open during the exhibition runtime from Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; every first Thursday until 8 p.m. The regular admission is 8 euros, reduced 4 euros. ([kunstpalais.de](https://www.kunstpalais.de/de/117/Ausstellung-Detailseite.html/Cyrill-Lachauer-The-Sunset-Route%3A112.html?referingPageNr=6))

Conclusion

Cyrill Lachauer. The Sunset Route promises a multi-layered exhibition between photography, film, and installation, which not only shows spaces but transforms them into meaning. Anyone seeking contemporary art as a critical, sensual, and educational experience should definitely visit this exhibition at Kunstpalais Erlangen live. ([kunstpalais.de](https://www.kunstpalais.de/de/117/Ausstellung-Detailseite.html/Cyrill-Lachauer-The-Sunset-Route%3A112.html?referingPageNr=6))