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
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.
The show includes works by artists such as Miriam Cahn, Ursula Edelmann, Bea Emsbach, Eric Fischl, Günther Förg, Bernard Frize, Angela Grauerholz, Gabi Hamm, Martha Jungwirth, Michael Kalmbach, Brian McKee, Barbara Klemm, Imi Knoebel, Juul Kraijer, Petra Morenzi, Stefan Moses, Tony Oursler, Vanessa Pey, Bernhard Prinz, Amparo Sard, Markus Schinwald, Cornelia Schleime, Dayanita Singh, Kiki Smith, Günter Umberg, Nicole van den Plas, Paloma Varga Weisz and Ben Vautier.
Exhibition
Friday, 24 October 2025 until Sunday, 18 January 2026
Opening
Thursday, 23 October 2025, 7 pm
Location
Open Space
Weißfrauenstraße 1-3, Frankfurt am Main
Free admission
Events at Open Space
Digitale Welten Festival: Reprogramming Reality
- Location
- Open Space
- Time
- 10–18 Uhr
Herbstferien-Workshop: For the Visitors – Eine performative Licht-Installation bei Tag und Nacht
- Location
- Open Space
- Time
- täglich 10–15 Uhr, inkl. 1 Stunde Mittagspause
Opening ‘Die Zeit hat kein Zentrum – Works from the art collection Ulrike Crespo’
- Location
- Open Space
- Time
- 7 pm
Guided Tour ‘Die Zeit hat kein Zentrum – Works from the art collection Ulrike Crespo’ (in German)
- Location
- Open Space
- Time
- 4 p.m.
Guided Tour ‘Die Zeit hat kein Zentrum – Works from the art collection Ulrike Crespo’ (in German)
- Location
- Open Space
- Time
- 6.30 p.m.
WORTMELDUNGEN im Crespo Open Space: „Pusztagold“ – Von der Poesie der Fürsorge. Lesung mit Clara Heinrich
- Location
- Open Space
- Time
- 19:30 Uhr
Guided Tour ‘Die Zeit hat kein Zentrum – Works from the art collection Ulrike Crespo’ (with German Sign Language interpretation)
- Location
- Open Space
- Time
- 2 p.m.
Guided Tour ‘Die Zeit hat kein Zentrum – Works from the art collection Ulrike Crespo’ (in English)
- Location
- Open Space
- Time
- 6.30 p.m.
A Day of Art as part of the exhibition ‘Die Zeit hat kein Zentrum – Werke aus der Kunstsammlung Ulrike Crespo’
- Location
- Open Space
- Time
- 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Screening Bill Viola as part of the exhibition ‘Die Zeit hat kein Zentrum – Werke aus der Kunstsammlung Ulrike Crespo’
- Location
- Open Space
- Time
- 8 p.m.
WORTMELDUNGEN Lange Lesenacht und Förderpreisverleihung 2025
- Location
- Open Space
- Time
- Einlass ab 18 Uhr, Beginn ab 19 Uhr
recent exhibitions
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.
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