When is the exhibition open

On Friday, November 21, 2025, the City Gallery is open from 11 am to 5 pm. Generally, the hours are often Wednesday to Friday 11 am to 5 pm and Saturday and Sunday 1 pm to 6 pm. Deviations are possible.

Where is the exhibition taking place

At the City Gallery Traunstein in the Cultural Forum Klosterkirche, 2nd floor Ludwigstraße 10–12, 83278 Traunstein. The entrance is located in the protected ensemble of the former Klosterkirche.

Is there an admission fee

The City Gallery usually indicates free admission. Please check the current notices from the gallery before your visit.

Are there guided tours or mediation offers

The City Gallery regularly offers exhibition walks and group tours by appointment. Inquiries can be made through the gallery.

How is accessibility on site

The Cultural Forum has a lift and barrier-free infrastructure. For individual needs, please contact the Cultural Forum in advance.

How do I best get there and where can I park

The Traunstein train station is about 500 meters away. The large Karl-Theodor parking lot is approximately 350 meters away. Public transport or walking is recommended.

Space meets View: Discover Herbert Stahl's Quiet Photo Poetics in Traunstein

Name: Discoveries in Spaces of Art – Photographs by Herbert Stahl
Start: 2025-11-21 11:00:00
End: 2025-11-21 11:00:00
Location: Städtische Galerie Traunstein, Kulturforum Klosterkirche, 2. OG, Ludwigstraße 10–12, 83278 Traunstein

Discoveries in Spaces of Art: Photographic Resonances by Herbert Stahl

The City Gallery in the Cultural Forum Klosterkirche Traunstein invites you to a concentrated art experience: Herbert Stahl directs his lens to the exhibition atmosphere itself – to those moments when space, work, and observers merge into a silent triad. An aesthetic experience is to be created that sharpens perception and understands seeing as active contemplation of the work.

Space, Work, View: The Quiet Drama of the Exhibition

On the second floor of the Klosterkirche, Stahl's photographs unfold a poetics of spatial aesthetics. Line directions meet image bodies, zones of light cut view axes, and interspaces become protagonists. Instead of a mere reproduction, Stahl emphasizes the situational encounter: fleeting gestures, quirky moments, discreet reflections – small tipping points where the museum becomes visible as a resonance space.

Art Historical Context and Curatorial Perspective

This series positions itself in the field of museum photography, where questions of presentation, reception, and staging play central roles. The curation of the City Gallery understands the exhibition as a contribution to visual education: groups of works are arranged so that rhythm, scale, and materiality become palpable in striking constellations. Thus, a parcours is created that reflects one's own perception economy.

Sensory Image Traces: Light, Material, Movement

Warm-cool light moods model surfaces, shadows rhythmize the white of the walls, glass, stone, and canvas enter into subtle alliances. The photography captures these micro-events of reception – a colored seam, a fold edge, the distance between pedestal and floor. Stahl demonstrates how attentive seeing can be when it takes the choreography of the exhibition space seriously.

Education and Mediation

The City Gallery Traunstein relies on art mediation: guided tours and exhibition walks deepen perspectives, promote dialogue, and open the works to schools, groups, and individual visitors. Thus, the institution connects contemporary art practice with cultural education – approachable, dialogical, and quality-conscious.

Conclusion

Visitors can expect a quiet, precise exhibition about seeing itself: photographs that make spaces audible, and a curation that trains perception. Those who want to deepen their own viewing culture should experience this exhibition live – for a sustainable, inspiring encounter with art and space.