After a successful inaugural year, Ice Breakers is returning to Toronto’s Waterfront. The Waterfront BIA has again enlisted WinterStations Inc. to bring five temporary, public art installations to various sights between Lower Spadina Ave. and York St. for five weeks, commencing Friday, January 19, 2018.
Ice Breakers is an initiative of Toronto’s Waterfront Business Improvement Area (BIA), developed and coordinated by Winter Stations Inc., the team behind the annual Winter Stations International Design Competition bringing temporary public art installations to Toronto’s Beach.

Ice Breakers is now embarking on its second-year of producing and exhibiting temporary public art works along Queens Quay within Toronto, Canada’s Waterfront for winter 2018. For this year, the international design competition will see the selection of five (5) artist teams to provide installations for five (5) unique sites. The exhibition is to run February 3, 2018 until March 25, 2018. This is a single-stage open international competition, welcoming artists, designers, architects and landscape architects to submit concept proposals for Ice Breakers’ temporary artwork installations.
For Ice Breaker’s second year the theme is “Constellation”. This can be interpreted in various ways, but the organizers hope to see work that is challenging, while also accessible, reminding the public that public art can be fun and engaging. Artists may choose to converse w...