Cyrill Lachauer. The Sunset Route at Kunstpalais Erlangen
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A poetic view on landscape, freedom, and resistance
With The Sunset Route, Kunstpalais Erlangen presents an exhibition by Cyrill Lachauer that combines photography, film, and installation into a dense narrative spatial composition. The works were created between 2020 and 2026 and revolve around landscape as a space of meaning, self-determination, exclusion, and the violence of colonization and exploitation. The exhibition is a collaboration with the Sammlung Goetz Munich and is curated by Susanne Touw and Malte Lin-Kröger. ([kunstpalais-erlangen.de](https://www.kunstpalais-erlangen.de/de/117/Ausstellung-Detailseite.html/Cyrill-Lachauer-The-Sunset-Route%3A112.html?referingPageNr=1&utm_source=openai))
Between film still and topographic memory
Cyrill Lachauer, born in 1979 in the Inntal, works at the intersection of photography, film, and conceptual storytelling. His artistic stance combines ethnographic attention with a precise visual language. In earlier and later phases of his work, he is interested in landscape not as a backdrop but as a repository of history, atmosphere, and social experience. This perspective also shapes The Sunset Route. ([kunstpalais-erlangen.de](https://www.kunstpalais-erlangen.de/de/117/Ausstellung-Detailseite.html/Cyrill-Lachauer-The-Sunset-Route%3A112.html?referingPageNr=1&utm_source=openai))
An exhibition as a walkable narrative
The presentation at Kunstpalais gathers photographic series and films in an installation, where individual elements are edited into an overarching narrative. The connection of image, space, and movement creates a contemplation of the work that sharpens the gaze on materiality, montage, and rhythm. Especially exciting is the thematic arc from railway lines, mobility, and migration to questions of de-limitations, resistance, and cultural inscription. ([mutualart.com](https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/Cyrill-Lachauer--The-Sunset-Route/21319B6BC82FA8AA?utm_source=openai))
Art education and visitor experience
Kunstpalais Erlangen sees itself as a house for contemporary art in the historic Palais Stutterheim at the marketplace. The spaces are open during the duration of an exhibition; guided tours and educational formats are a fixed part of the program. The house is accessible with minimal barriers for visitors: The exhibition area in the basement is accessible by elevator, and the train station and old town are close together. ([kunstpalais-erlangen.de](https://www.kunstpalais-erlangen.de/de/133/Besuch-planen.html?utm_source=openai))
An artistic experience with political and poetic depth
The Sunset Route promises no quick visual impact, but a demanding aesthetic experience where photography, film, and curatorial spatial dramaturgy intertwine. Those who engage with this exhibition will encounter art that interprets landscape as a stratified resonance space. A visit is worthwhile for all who want to not only see contemporary art but experience it physically in space. ([kunstpalais-erlangen.de](https://www.kunstpalais-erlangen.de/de/117/Ausstellung-Detailseite.html/Cyrill-Lachauer-The-Sunset-Route%3A112.html?referingPageNr=1&utm_source=openai))
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