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.
Exhibitions
The ‘After Nature . Ulrike Crespo Photography Prize’, initiated in collaboration with C/O Berlin, was presented in 2025 to Lisa Barnard (1967, United Kingdom) and Isadora Romero (1987, Ecuador).
The exhibitions ‘You Only Look Once’ by Lisa Barnard and ‘Notes on How to Build a Forest’ by Isadora Romero will be on view at the Crespo Open Space, opening up two artistic perspectives on the interplay between nature, technology, and society.
Exhibition
Friday, 13 March until Sunday, 31 May 2026
Opening
Thursday, 12 March 2026, 7 pm
Location
Open Space
Weißfrauenstraße 1-3, Frankfurt am Main
Free entry
Events
Guided tour of the exhibition ‘After Nature . Ulrike Crespo Photography Prize 25’ (with German Sign Language interpretation)
Art Monday – In English: Curator’s guided tour in the exhibition ‘After Nature . Ulrike Crespo Photography Prize 25’
Guided tour of the exhibition ‘After Nature . Ulrike Crespo Photography Prize 25’
Art Monday – Guided tour of the exhibition ‘After Nature . Ulrike Crespo Photography Prize 25’
Artist Talk with Lisa Barnard and Isadora Romero
Night of the museums ‘After Nature . Ulrike Crespo Photography Prize 25’
Art Monday – Guided tour of the exhibition ‘After Nature . Ulrike Crespo Photography Prize 25’
In English – Guided tour in the exhibition ‘After Nature . Ulrike Crespo Photography Prize 25’
Guided tour of the exhibition ‘After Nature . Ulrike Crespo Photography Prize 25’ (with German Sign Language interpretation)
Guided tour for blind and visually impaired people in the exhibition ‘After Nature . Ulrike Crespo Photography Prize 25’
Guided tour for blind and visually impaired people in the exhibition ‘After Nature . Ulrike Crespo Photography Prize 25’
Finisssage ‘After Nature . Ulrike Crespo Photography Prize 25’
recent exhibitions
The show is the first to present around 120 works from Ulrike Crespo’s private collection, which encompasses painting, photography, works on paper, sculptures and even a video installation. It highlights the qualities of specific groups of works as well as the strengths of individual pieces. The selection testifies to Ulrike Crespo’s distinctive, free-thinking perspective as a photographer and psychologist, her dedication to female artists and emerging talent, and her penchant for depictions of the female body. Curated by Dr Mario Kramer.
Exhibition
24 October 2025 until 18 January 2026
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. 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
29.08.2025–14.09.2025
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.
Exhibition
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.
Exhibition
12.10.24—26.01.25