The programme for Liverpool Biennial 2016, the largest contemporary art festival in the UK running from 9 July to 16 October 2016, was announced today by Sally Tallant, Director of Liverpool Biennial.
For the ninth edition of the Biennial, 44 artists will create new work for locations across the city, alongside a showcase of ten associate artists working in the North of England. Artists from Australia, Belgium, China, France, Greece, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, Russia and Taiwan, as well as the UK, will participate.
The Liverpool Biennial exhibition has been conceived as a series of episodes, drawing inspiration from Liverpool’s past, present and future. The episodes are: Children’s Episode, the Biennial’s first comprehensive commissioning programme for artists to work collaboratively with children; Ancient Greece, the inspiration behind many of Liverpool’s grandest buildings; Chinatown, acknowledging Liverpool’s heritage as Europe’s oldest Chinese community in Europe; Flashback, artists’ new interpretation of history; in Software, Biennial artists will open up new perspectives and interactions with technology; and Monuments From the Future, where artists have been invited to imagine what Liverpool might look like in the future.
Liverpool Biennial
55 New Bird Street
Liverpool L1 0BW
9 July – 16 October 2016
Preview: 7 – 8 July 2016
Ian Chen, Emissary Forks At Perfection (still), 2015