ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAMME IN IRELAND
Glenkeen Garden Residencies
We’re currently living in an era of redefining how people relate to nature. Art plays a special role in this process: it has the potential to tread new ground and generate ideas. That’s why the Crespo Foundation has initiated a programme that gives artists the ideal setting where they can address the topic: the ‘Glenkeen Garden Residencies – ArtNature/NatureArt’ on the south coast of Ireland.
Moritz Fehr in Glenkeen Garden, photo: Jason Lee
Artists-in-residence in Ireland
Twice a year, from March to June and August to November, the Crespo Foundation invites art collectives to Glenkeen Garden so that they can source inspiration from the location. While living and working in Glenkeen Garden for those three months, the artists take part in an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary exchange about human beings, art and nature, aided by access to a local network of scholars from the humanities and natural sciences. The results are presented in exhibitions and event series in Frankfurt and Ireland.
The location
Glenkeen Garden is a site of around 10 hectares on the coast of West Cork. Extending down to the shore of Roaringwater Bay, it is embedded in a unique landscape of archetypal Irish willows and pristine nature. The founder Ulrike Crespo (1950–2019) found the garden an inspirational place where she could work. Its design creates various zones that have been enhanced by sculptures from well-known sculptors.
Open Calls
We invite applications for the Glenkeen Garden Residencies through open calls. The open calls for 2026 and 2027 have ended. All applicants can expect to hear back by the end of July 2025. New information about the next application round is scheduled for publication on this page in 2027.
‘A garden changes every day, just like life. Something that’s there today is different tomorrow, or it’s already disappeared. But something else comes along instead. That’s connected with us too. One thing is already gone, but then something new starts in a different spot.’
PARTNERS
Our partners are Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre in Skibbereen, The Sustainability Institute at University College Cork (a UCC Futures Institute), formerly the Environmental Research Institute (ERI), and the Goethe-Institut Ireland.
CONTACT
If you have any questions, please contact us at residency@crespo-foundation.de.
The call for applications has closed. The next call for the 2028/29 residencies is expected to be published in 2027.