Experience Contemporary Art at Kunstpalais with Eva Nüßlein and Cyrill Lachauer

Art in Conversation: Eva Nüßlein and Cyrill Lachauer at Kunstpalais

On September 27, 2026, the Kunstpalais Erlangen invites you to a public tour of two current solo exhibitions. The focus is on painter Eva Nüßlein with Grime Under the Nails and artist Cyrill Lachauer with The Sunset Route. The tour opens up art historical, social, and personal approaches to two very different artistic positions.

Painting between Punk, Dream, and Immediate Feeling

Eva Nüßlein, born in 1991 in Bamberg and trained at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg, develops a color-intensive painting from snapshots, symbols, and emotionally condensed scenes. Stars, tears, lightning, skulls, and figures in the spotlight merge into a visual language that connects to music, punk, and subculture.

The exhibition Grime Under the Nails presents painting as an immediate artistic experience. Bright colors, bold shapes, and theatrical compositions create a tense exhibition atmosphere between euphoria, exhaustion, self-staging, and vulnerability. In the examination of the works, it becomes apparent how Nüßlein takes feelings seriously while simultaneously creating an accessible, open visual world.

Narrative Landscapes and Political Spaces

Cyrill Lachauer's exhibition The Sunset Route gathers photographic and film works from 2020 to 2026. His artistic practice views landscape not merely as a backdrop but as a speaking space where history, local cultures, political contexts, and personal experiences inscribe themselves.

The tour makes it comprehensible how Lachauer links questions of freedom, self-determination, and resistance with themes such as colonization, exclusion, and exploitation. Photographs and short films unfold a poetic yet analytical visual language. The exhibition was realized as a collaboration between the Goetz Collection in Munich and Kunstpalais, curated by Susanne Touw and Malte Lin-Kröger.

Aesthetic Experience and Cultural Education

The public tour connects vivid image analysis with art historical contextualization. Visitors gain insights into painting, photography, film, installation, curation, and contemporary art movements. This creates space for questions, individual perception, and a deepened aesthetic experience.

Particularly appealing is the direct comparison of the two exhibitions: here the rhythmic, emotionally charged painting of Eva Nüßlein, there Cyrill Lachauer's photographic-film exploration of landscape and memory. The art experience leads from bright colors and symbolic figures to quiet, multifaceted visual spaces.

Conclusion: Two Exhibitions, One Intense Tour

The tour through Grime Under the Nails and The Sunset Route offers a concentrated look at two independent positions in contemporary art. Art enthusiasts will experience an inspiring connection of painting, photography, film, social reflection, and sensory contemplation of works at Kunstpalais Erlangen. Those who want to discover contemporary art in an immediate, understandable, and art historically grounded way should experience this tour live.

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Sources:

• Eva Nüßlein. Grime Under the Nails – Kunstpalais Erlangen
• Cyrill Lachauer. The Sunset Route – City of Erlangen
• Current Exhibitions – Kunstpalais Erlangen
• Between Punk, Pathos and Self-Discovery – ART 5 III