Exhibition Opening: The Glenkeen Variations - Gathering Winds

is the latest installment in the exhibition series The Glenkeen Variations at the Goethe-Institut in Dublin.
The exhibition brings together Eva Posas and David Habets (who collaborate as Mbuchi), Sonya Schönberger, and Forerunner, whose works are each shaped by their time as artists-in-residence at Roaringwater Bay in West Cork: from kites and emergency radios that track radio transmissions across the Atlantic to photographic meditations on stone and the body.

Exhibition Works

Roaring Winds Radio Dublin Set (2026)

David Habets and Eva Posas, working as their family collective Mbuchi, present Roaring Winds Radio Dublin Set (2026), a silkscreened kite and a portable emergency radio. Before ships navigated by chart and compass, the wind carried life between continents: spores, pollen, and other forms of life crossed the open water.
This project traces aerial transmission from lichen to language, broadcast to breath, drawing on the history of radio and the kite-assisted experiments of Guglielmo Marconi at Crookhaven — not far from Glenkeen Garden —site of some of the earliest transatlantic wireless transmissions. Roaring Winds Radio is the first instalment of an ongoing series imagining the invisible space made of air moving between worlds and lungs.

Title tbc (2026)

The collective Forerunner arrived at Glenkeen Garden during a period of deliberate slowing-down—stepping outside the usual pressures of deadline and outcome to find what a practice looks like when given room to breathe. The works that emerged from this time begin from unexpected places: questions about where art ends up once it leaves the studio, and what forms might hold that uncertainty. Their contribution to Gathering Winds carries the spores of thinking-in-progress, from galvanised air-conditioning ducts to a stained-glass hand dryer.

Skull and Heart (2024)
Sonya Schönberger’s photographic triptych Skull and Heart (2024) combines two close up studies of stones with a central self-portrait. The skull- and heart-shaped stones appear threaded with lava-like structures, conveying a frozen movement, primal and grounded. The self-portrait depicts the artist in a staged, ritualistic setting. Perhaps lost, perhaps hiding. Oscillating between the natural and the artificial, the work connects body and landscape, raising questions on possession, appropriation, and cultural trans formation.

Glenkeen Garden Residencies, the artist-in-residence programme organised by the Crespo Foundation in West Cork since 2021, aims to encourage artists to explore the relationship between art and nature. Glenkeen Garden, which means “Garden of the Beautiful Valley” in Irish, is a property of the Crespo Foundation. Twice a year, groups of artists are invited to Glenkeen Garden for three-month residencies.
The exhibition and event series is curated by Ben Livne Weitzman.
Presented by the Crespo Foundation and Goethe-Institut Irland.

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