Liverpool Biennial

Contemporary art festival in Liverpool Turning the place over by Richard Wilson Liverpool Biennial is the largest international contemporary art festival in the United Kingdom. Since its launch in 1998, Liverpool Biennial has commissioned over 400 new artworks and presented work by over 592 artists from around the world. History Liverpool Biennial was established by James Moores (with Jane Rankin Read, Lewis Biggs and Bryan Biggs) in 1998 and has presented festivals in 1999, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 (as part of Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture), 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2023 and 2025. As of 2021, Dr Samantha Lackey is the Director of Liverpool Biennial. The Biennial exhibition is supported by FACT (the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Tate Liverpool, National Museums Liverpool, Bluecoat, and Open Eye Gallery. Since 2006, the Liverpool Biennial has included 'collateral' events organised and supported by embassies, international agencies, or galleries, and promoted by Liverpool Biennial as a part of the programme. In 2010, for the first time, the biennial offered a platform for exhibitions organised overseas and promoted under the title City States