When is the exhibition open?

On Friday, March 27, 2026, from 11 AM to 5 PM. Additional dates and possible tour times will be announced by the organizer.

Are there guided tours or educational programs?

The City Gallery regularly offers exhibition tours and educational programs. Specific times for this exhibition will be provided on the gallery's website.

How much is the admission fee?

Admission pricing information will follow. Please check the official website of the City Gallery Traunstein for current details.

Is the exhibition accessible?

The City Gallery at the Cultural Forum is well accessible. Details regarding accessibility and assistance will be published by the gallery on its website.

Am I allowed to take photos in the exhibition?

Photography rules may vary depending on the work and loan. Please observe notices on site or inquire with the museum in advance.

Where can I park and how do I get there?

It is a short walk from Traunstein train station to the gallery. Parking is available, among other places, at the Karl Theodor parking lot; please pay attention to local signage.

Seeing surreal, feeling more intensely: Dreamlike realities at the Cultural Forum Traunstein

Name: EXHIBITION DREAMLIKE! Surreal Realities
Start: 2026-03-27T12:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-03-27T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Städtische Galerie im Kulturforum Traunstein

Dream logic meets present: Surreal realities at the Cultural Forum

On Friday, March 27, 2026, the City Gallery at the Cultural Forum Traunstein opens its doors for the exhibition 'DREAMLIKE! Surreal Realities'. Six artists unfold painting, drawing, collage, installation, photography, and film into an intense art experience that puts dream and reality in productive tension and creates a dense exhibition atmosphere.

Surrealism today: Between the unconscious and everyday observation

At the center is the aesthetic experience of the state of suspension: motifs tilt, meanings shift, materials speak. In the examination of the works, moiré-like grids, fragmented bodies, floating architectures, and image spaces emerge, which the eye explores tentatively. Curatorial settings rhythmize light and spatial effects, so that visitors glide step by step from the visible surface into mental landscapes.

Artistic signatures: From grid to spatial installation

Uwe Bressnik (Vienna) has been combining net and grid structures into pseudo-digital image worlds since the 1980s and explores the interface of sound, object, and painting in intermedial projects. Samuel Rachl (Munich) works drawing and sculpturally; his installations and paper works develop a poetic topography of the everyday from associative gestures. Franziska Eslami (Rosenheim) links contemporary image practice with cultural education; her contributions open social resonance spaces. Uli Reiter (Gstadt) reflects in painting, text, and animation on the relationship between perception, pathos formula, and media image. Evelyn Thußbas (Traunstein) continues a painterly visual language that modulates between landscape, memory, and abstract intensification. A historical resonance base is provided by the expressive sketchbooks of Günther Schuhböck, who passed away in 2002, from the City Art Collection.

Material, color, light: Sensual details of precise curation

Finely changing graphite and ink tones meet bold acrylic fields; collage edges cut into the picture plane like quotes, while film and photographic works stretch time. The curation uses sight axes, hanging heights, and pause areas, so that works can breathe and dialogues can arise: between figure and abstraction, sound and silence, dream protocol and urban observation.

Cultural education and context

The City Gallery Traunstein sees itself as a place of mediation. Guided tours, discussions, and offers for schools deepen the art-historical context of surrealism, avant-garde, and contemporary positions. Thus, the exhibition connects artistic direction and region, theory and practice, collection history and contemporary art.

Conclusion: Those who engage with this exhibition experience an inspiring journey through image spaces that vibrate between dream, memory, and reality. For art enthusiasts, it offers concentrated examination of works, aesthetic experience, and a compelling argument to see surrealism as a living presence.