OUR TEAM

Lena Sobczinski
Lena Sobczinski graduated in Frankfurt with a bachelor’s degree in German and empirical linguistics. Between 2017 and 2020, she worked in events and guest management at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. This was followed by positions in events and fundraising at the Museum MMK für Moderne Kunst and in the communications department of the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company. A freelance position for the Crespo Foundation as part of the pilot phase of the 'Glenkeen Garden Residencies' was followed in 2023 by a position as executive assistant to the Crespo Foundation’s board. Since summer 2025, she has been working as a consultant for art and exhibition management at the Crespo Foundation.

Ben Livne Weitzman
Ben Livne Weitzman is a curator and writer based in Frankfurt. He is CEO and co-founder of WAVA, a non-profit augmented exhibition platform, curator of the Crespo Foundation's Glenkeen Garden artist-in-residence program in West Cork, Ireland, and serves as Editor-at-large at PASSE-AVANT, an online magazine for contemporary art. He holds a Master's degree in Curatorial Studies from the Städelschule and the Goethe University in Frankfurt and a Bachelor's degree from the Interdisciplinary Honors Program in the Humanities and the Arts, Tel Aviv University.
Among Ben's recent curatorial projects one could name the virtual exhibitions ‘The Orangerie’ (2024) and ‘DEMO-’ (2023) in the public space of Frankfurt, ‘After Nature’ (2025) and ‘The Glenkeen Variations; ArtNature/NatureArt’ (2024) at the Crespo Open Space in Frankfurt, ‘Framing Movements’ at the Suzanne Dellal Centre in Tel Aviv-Jaffa (2021, 2022 and 2024) and the exhibition ‘In-visible Realness’ at the PS120 Gallery in Berlin (2019).