Liverpool Biennial
Liverpool Biennial 2012, the UK Biennial of contemporary art, will take place from September 15 to November 25. For ten weeks every two years it commissions the most exciting artists from around the world, attracting over 600,000 visitors in 2010.
Liverpool today offers the richest visual arts environment anywhere in the UK outside London. It has more galleries and museums, and commissions more new art than any other city except the capital and was European Capital of Culture in 2008.
Participating organisations and venues include The Cunard Building, The Bluecoat, Everton Park, FACT, Liverpool ONE, Metal, The Monro, Open Eye Gallery, Tate Liverpool, Mitchell’s Bakery, LJMU Copperas Hill Building (Lime Street), the Walker Art Gallery, Victoria Gallery and Museum and The Royal Standard.
For the Olympic year, Liverpool Biennial will bring forth new understanding of hospitality for our increasingly globalised and complex times through a programme of exhibitions and projects that lead to a rediscovery of the city.
The exhibition, The Unexpected Guest, will show works by over 60 renowned and emerging artists from across the world in locations throughout the city, including unusual and unexpected public spaces as well as galleries, museums and cultural venues.
Other highlights of its programme include: The John Moores Painting Prize; Bloomberg New Contemporaries; City States, the Sky Arts Ignition Series/Tate Liverpool commission by Doug Aitken.
To find out more about Liverpool Biennial 2012 and get detailed information about its dynamic calendar of talks and events, visit www.biennial.com
