What is Exhibit Columbus?
From the organizers: Explore the past, present, and future of design at 18 outdoor, site-responsive installations that energize spaces in and around Columbus’ masterpieces of modern architecture. The exhibition creates exciting new ways to experience Columbus’ design heritage for residents and newcomers alike.
Five Miller Prize-winning architectural firms have created major installations on Fifth Street. Five international design studios punctuate Washington Street with experiences. Installations by regional university students and local high school students showcase the future of design education.
Exhibit Columbus programs are bringing world-renowned talents in art, architecture, and design to downtown Columbus, Indiana, while re-energizing the local community around our design heritage.
When?
Opens Aug. 26 through Nov. 26. It’s free.
Where are the exhibits?
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What about guided tours?
Daily walking tours can be booked through the Columbus Visitors Center, 506 Fifth St.
The tour includes an overview of many of the 18 installations around downtown and the iconic Columbus landmarks and sites they’ve been created in relationship to. The tour will highlight the five Miller Prize installations, but will also explore installations by international designers, as well as students and professors from Midwestern universities.
Tour times: 10:30 a.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays starting Aug. 29. Lasts about 90 minutes. Begins and ends at Visitors Center.
Price: $12
Book a tour: Click this link.
Phone: 812-378-2622 | 800-468-6564
What’s happening in the next several days?
Saturday, Aug. 26
- The Architect’s Newspaper Opening Conversations, 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Red Room of the Bartholomew County Public Library.
- Opening Celebration from 2 to 4:30 p.m., beginning on Fifth Street at First Christian Church and the Bartholomew County Public Library Plaza to Mill Race Park. Free. This is a chance to meet the architects and designers participating in Exhibit Columbus at their installations.
- Miller House and Garden Ticketed Champagne Tours departing from the Columbus Area Visitors Center, from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Cost: $65. Information: exhibitcolumbus.org.
- Free Mill Race Park 25th Anniversary Party, 4:30 to 7 p.m., including a folk-pop concert with duo Lily and Madeleine at 5 p.m. A community party open to all.
Thursday, Aug. 31
Where: Upland Columbus Pump House, 148 Lindsey St.
When: 4 to 6 p.m. Aug. 31 and each Thursday until Exhibit Columbus concludes in late November
What it is: A weekly meet-up created to engage the community and connect fans of good design with people associated with the three-month Exhibit Columbus exhibition.
How much: Free
The Miller Prize Winners: Learn more
There are five Miller Prize Winners each awarded $75,000 for their design and build for Exhibit Columbus. The honor is named after industrialist J. Irwin Miller and his wife, Xenia Miller, a lifelong supporter of great art and architecture.
J. Irwin Miller launched Columbus’ architectural excellence when he hired top Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen to design First Christian Church, which was completed in 1942.
The Miller Prize winners are:
“Another Circle,” by ArandaLasch at Mill Race Park on Fifth Street.
“Anything Can Happen in the Woods,” by Plan B Architecture & Urbanism at Cummins Corporate Office Building, 500 Jackson St.
“Conversation Plinth,” by IKD at the Bartholomew County Public Library plaza, 536 Fifth St.
“The Exchange,” by Oyler Wu Collaborative at Irwin Conference Center, 500 Washington St.
“Wiikiaami,” by studio:indigenous at First Christian Church, 531 Fifth St.
Stories about Exhibit Columbus
- Launched: 18 art installations christened; city celebrates. Aug. 27, 2017
- Next generation of designers show ready to make their mark. Aug. 26, 2017
- Design dreams taking flight all around city. Aug. 25, 2017
- More than 15 months in the making
- Meet the organizers: Richard McCoy and Anne Surak
- Anticipation building, locally and globally
- Ready, set, install: Exhibit going up all around Columbus
- High school students get in on design action
- Inspired Creation: Installation to emulate ‘enchanted’ forest.
- The logo: Homage to the Millers, top designers
Share your cool photos
Exhibit Columbus is a photographer’s dream — all those stunning lines, colors and shapes juxtaposed against other architectural treasures. Visitors from near and far will be roaming around Columbus through November to see our design past, present and future.
Show us your design style and take photographs of you and your friends at the exhibits. Then share them with us.
Send them here: [email protected]
We may use the photos online, in social media and in print. Include your name, where you took the photo and where you are from.
Tweets and more
#exhibitcolumbus #yugonkim #millerprize #conversationplinth #IKD https://t.co/FqvYsoS8pb pic.twitter.com/cEq2wgzUOY
— Janet Fry (@JanetFSchneider) August 26, 2017
Conversation Plinth is fantastic! Well done yugonkim! #millerprize #exhibitcolumbus… https://t.co/AmFmSIVpAD
— Josh Mings, AIA (@joshuamings) August 26, 2017
Like something out of a video game #exhibitcolumbus https://t.co/C1OhIzWnKt pic.twitter.com/utk0CAIZBd
— Victor 🎧 (@victorescu) August 26, 2017
Conversation Plinth at night. Whoa. #ExhibitColumbus rt @DonnaSinkArch @ExhibitColumbus pic.twitter.com/xkYyqPJFd9
— DesignApplause (@DesignApplause) August 25, 2017
Never not perfect. Miller House at #ExhibitColumbus pic.twitter.com/lVxDOU6vSd
— Donna Sink, Architect (@DonnaSinkArch) August 24, 2017
Our global HQ town has never looked so good. Congrats to @ExhibitColumbus on its opening weekend. (Via @nytimes): https://t.co/A3v26Gi3tv
— Cummins Inc. (@Cummins) August 24, 2017
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— Jonathan Nesci (@jonathan_nesci) August 24, 2017
@ExhibitColumbus Terry Boling and students have a great day for their installation! #ExhibitColumbus pic.twitter.com/ePjsqazbnL
— DAAP SAID (@daapSAID) August 24, 2017
My concern over the size of Conversation Plinth was totally short-sighted. https://t.co/V5ZJu35VMI IKD rocked #ExhibitColumbus pic.twitter.com/0h7eBMeq5S
— Donna Sink, Architect (@DonnaSinkArch) August 24, 2017
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— Wonne Ickx (@WonneIckx) August 24, 2017
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— DesignApplause (@DesignApplause) August 22, 2017
Eclipse at 93% with friends and family at Another Circle by @arandalasch for @exhibitcolumbus #exhibitcolumbus #ex… https://t.co/LiIsB3mcio pic.twitter.com/QXXUoipzhe
— Jonathan Nesci (@jonathan_nesci) August 21, 2017