Art space, glass-walled workshop and hub
Crespo Open Space
The Crespo Open Space is a place for encounters and exchange, for art, learning and design. Artists, project participants and visitors come together here for readings, lectures, concerts and exhibitions. Funding partners and our programmes use the spaces for programme work, workshops and educational formats.
Upcoming exhibitions
Stopover – exhibition of the artists-in-residence at schools
Since 2018, ‘Das fliegende Künstler:innenzimmer an Schulen’ (The flying artist’s room in schools) has landed as a mobile living studio in schoolyards in rural areas. Provided with a grant, artists live and work here for up to two school years as artists-in-residence. Together with the pupils and teachers, they try out artistic approaches in the classroom, experience open studio situations and develop joint art projects.
The artists-in-residence Janosch Feiertag, Dawid Liftinger, Sophia Mix, Ghaku Okazaki and Damaris Wurster are showing their work in the ‘Zwischenlandung’ exhibition. As ‘flying artists’, they reflect on the changing relationship between their own artistic positions and the rural space in which they work.
Exhibition
Friday, 29 August 2025 to Sunday, 14 September 2025
Vernissage and Artist Talk
Thursday, 28 August 2025, from 6:30 pm
Artist Talk from 7:30 pm
Location
Crespo Open Space
Weißfrauenstraße 1-3, Frankfurt am Main
Free admission
Events at Open Space
Vernissage mit Artist Talk: „Zwischenlandung – Ausstellung der Artists-in-Residence an Schulen“
- Location
- Open Space
- Time
- 18:30 Uhr, Artist Talk 19:30
Ausstellung „Zwischenlandung“: Workshops und Führungen zum Museumsuferfest
- Location
- Open Space
- Time
- verschiedene
Trommelperformance und Live Painting „Zwei Wirbelwinde“ in der Ausstellung „Zwischenlandung“
- Location
- Open Space
- Time
- 13–16 Uhr
Vernissage ‘Die Zeit hat kein Zentrum – Works from the art collection Ulrike Crespo’
- Location
- Open Space
- Time
- 7 pm
Exhibition preview
Around 40 works will provide an initial insight into the art collection of Ulrike Crespo (1950–2019), which comprises more than 800 works, on the occasion of the opening of the Crespo House in October 2024. This initial selection of works heralds a major exhibition of the collection, which is planned for autumn 2025 in the Crespo Open Space.
Exhibition
Friday, 24 October 2025 until Sunday, 18 January 2026
Opening
Thursday, 23 October 2025, 7 pm
recent exhibitions
Together with C/O Berlin, the Crespo Foundation has launched the ‘After Nature . Ulrike Crespo Photography Prize’. Since 2024, the prize has been awarded annually to two international artists who use photography and image-based media to respond to the changing ecology of the present and explore new concepts of nature and art.
With Laura Huertas Millán (*1983, Colombia) and Sarker Protick (*1986, Bangladesh), the Crespo Foundation is presenting the 2024 prizewinners, whose artistic works look at a nature whose condition is inextricably interwoven with the social and political manifestations of our lifestyles.
28.02.–25.05.2025
Glenkeen Garden is a landscape park on Roaringwater Bay in West Cork, Ireland, designed by Ulrike Crespo. Since 2021, it has been the site of an artist in residence programme, the results of which will be shown for the first time in the exhibition 'The Glenkeen Variations: ArtNature/NatureArt’.
‘The Glenkeen Variations: ArtNature/NatureArt' marked a premiere in two respects: it was the first exhibition of the first phase of the Glenkeen Garden Residencies and the first exhibition in the new Crespo Open Space.
12.10.24—26.01.25