Columbus Spotlight Weekend (10/23–10/25)
Posted on October 22, 2026
As part of the 2026 Biennial, FotoFocus features Biennial Venues during Spotlight Weekends: Opportunities to visit multiple Venues within specific geographic locations where artists and curators are more likely to be on site for talks, tours, special events, and featured programming. This is an opportunity to immerse yourself in the vibrant energy of the FotoFocus Biennial and map out a plan to get to as many Biennial Venues as possible.
Featured here: Columbus; Friday, October 23 – Sunday, October 25, 2026
Sometimes you need to get out of town to see something fresh. And sometimes, that can mean just a short ride up I-71. If you’ve got the itch to get out of town, you’re in luck—several FotoFocus Biennial Exhibitions are on view in Columbus!
Columbus Spotlight Weekend Events
October 23
Columbus Museum of Art
11am–12pm 10 Minutes on the Dot Tour
1pm–2pm Highlights Tour
Wexner Center for the Arts
4:30pm–6:30pm Unorthodocs Film Screening: Non-aligned Newsreels: Fragments from the Debris
7–9pm Unorthodocs Film Screening: When a Witness Recants
October 24
Wexner Center for the Arts
11:30am–1:30pm Unorthodocs Film Screening: Aanikoobijigan
11:30am–12:30pm Gallery Tour of Sammy Baloji: When Extraction Becomes Form It Speaks In Borrowed Tongues
1:30–3:30pm Unorthodocs Film Screening: Barbara Forever
4–5:30pm Unorthodocs Film Screening: Once Upon a Time in Harlem
6–7pm Unorthodocs Reception
7–9pm Unorthodocs Film Screening: American Doctor
Columbus Museum of Art
1:30–2:30pm Gallery Tour of Queer Constellations: Photographs from the Aronowitz Family Collection
2–3pm 10 Minutes on the Dot Tour
Columbus College of Art and Design
2:30–3pm Gallery Tour of Haunting
Shot Tower Gallery
3:15–3:45pm Gallery Tour of One Shot
ROY G BIV Gallery
4–5pm Gallery Tour of Franklinton Across Time: The Floodplain Imagination
October 25
Wexner Center for the Arts
12–1:30pm Unorthodocs Film Screening: Do You Love Me?
1:30–3pm Unorthodocs Film Screening: Everybody to Kenmure Street
3:30–5pm Unorthodocs Film Screening: The Oldest Person in the World
Columbus Museum of Art
2–3pm 10 Minutes on the Dot Tour
All Columbus Biennial Venues
*Please check regular venue hours before planning your visit.
Columbus College of Art & Design: Beeler Gallery (60 Cleveland Ave, Columbus, OH)
Haunting
Columbus Museum of Art (480 East Broad Street, Columbus, OH)
Queer Constellations: Photographs from the Aronowitz Family Collection
ROY G BIV Gallery (435 W Rich St, Columbus, OH)
Franklinton Across Time: The Floodplain Imagination
Wexner Center for the Arts (1871 N High St, Columbus, OH)
Unorthodocs
Sammy Baloji: When Extraction Becomes Form It Speaks in Borrowed Tongues
Shot Tower Gallery (546 Jack Gibbs Blvd., Columbus, OH)
One Shot