Editing Liverpool Biennial (section)

==Biennials==

===2004===
In 2004, the festival caused controversy by exhibiting a work by [[Yoko Ono]] entitled ''My mummy was beautiful''. This was a series of full colour photographs of a woman's breast and crotch, which were exhibited throughout the city centre. Peter Johansson's ''Swedish red'' was a one-room house at the Pier Head painted bright red and playing [[ABBA]]'s record "[[Dancing Queen]]". The [[Walker Art Gallery]] mounted ''[[The Stuckists Punk Victorian]]'', the first major show of the [[Stuckism|Stuckist]] artists, who had not previously been given official recognition.<ref name=gatecrashes>Moss, Richard. [http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/art24134 "Stuckist's Punk Victorian gatecrashes Walker's Biennial"], Culture24, 17 September 2004. Retrieved 3 December 2009.</ref>

Participating artists included [[Lara Almarcegui]], [[Ursula Biemann]], [[Yael Bartana]], [[Luis Camnitzer]], [[Paolo Canevari]], [[Billy Childish]], [[Amanda Coogan]], [[Marysia Lewandowska]] & [[Neil Cummings]], [[Dias & Riedweg]], [[Maria Eichhorn]], [[Carl Michael von Hausswolff]], [[Satch Hoyt]], [[Huang Yong Ping]], [[Sanja Ivekovic]], [[Francesco Jodice]], [[Peter Johansson (artist)|Peter Johansson]], [[Yeondoo Jung]], [[Werner Kaligofsky]], [[Germaine Koh]], [[Andreja Kuluncic]], [[Oswaldo Macia]], [[Jill Magid]], [[Inigo Manglano-Ovalle]], [[Esko Männikkö]], [[Dorit Margreiter]], [[Cildo Meireles]], [[Takashi Murakami]], Yoko Ono, [[Mathias Poledna]], [[Marjetica Potrc]], [[Raqs Media Collective]], [[Navin Rawanchaikul]], [[Martha Rosler]], [[Santiago Sierra]], [[Valeska Soares]], [[Rirkrit Tiravanija]], [[Yang Fudong]], [[Oliver Bancroft]], [[Thomas Bangsted]], [[David Blandy]], [[Margarita Bofiliou]], [[Dave Carbone]], [[Lali Chetwynd]], [[Petros Chrisostomou]], [[Joe Clark]], [[James Connelly (artist)|James Connelly]], [[Tessa Farmer]], [[Oriana Fox]], [[Sarah Gilder]], [[Anton Goldenstein]], [[Mauricio Guillen]], [[Thomas Hylander]], [[Yvonne Jones]], [[Samson Kambalu]], [[Ahn Kang-hyun]], [[Karoly Kesaru]], [[Heidi Kilpelainen]], [[Steven Lowery]], [[Nicky Magliulo]], [[Gary McDonald (artist)|Gary McDonald]], [[Sarah Michael]], [[Thomas Needham (artist)|Thomas Needham]], [[Robert Nichol (artist)|Robert Nichol]], [[Jesse Richards]], [[David Rowland (industrial designer)|David Rowland]], [[Michael Sailstorfer]], [[Margaret Salmon]], [[Qasim Riza Shaheen]], [[Shen Yuan]], [[Heiko Tiemann]], [[Douglas White (artist)|Douglas White]], [[Lynette Yiadom-Boakye]], [[Goang-ming Yuan]].

===2006===
In 2006, there were five exhibition strands—International 06, International +, John Moores 24, the Independents and [[New Contemporaries]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/exhibitions/liverpoolbiennial06/|access-date=19 August 2011|title=Tate Liverpool - Past Exhibitions - Liverpool Biennial}}</ref>

Participating artists included [[Monica Bonvicini]], [[Mark Bradford]], [[Matthew Buckingham]], [[Chen Chieh-Jen]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://studiobanana.tv/2009/10/21/studio-banana-interviews-chen-chieh-jen/|title=Studio Banana TV Interviews Chen Chieh Jen | publisher=Studio Banana TV|access-date=19 August 2011}}</ref> [[Esra Ersen]], [[Carlos Garaicoa]], [[Simryn Gill]], [[Shilpa Gupta]], [[Jeppe Hein]], [[Oscar Melgar]] & [[Jesus Javier Jaime]], [[Toba Khedoori]], [[Hans-Peter Kuhn]], [[Ken Lum]], [[Teresa Margolles]], [[Kelly Mark]], [[Lee Mingwei]], [[Priscilla Monge]], [[Mario Navarro]], [[Lisa Oppenheim]], [[Philippe Parreno]], [[Anu Pennanen]], [[Amalia Pica]], [[Jean-François Prost]], [[Rigo 23]], [[Qasim Riza Shaheen]], [[Shimabuku]], [[Julianne Swartz]], [[The Kingpins (Canadian band)|The Kingpins]], [[Kuang-Yu Tsui]], [[Adriana Varejao]], [[Humberto Velez]], [[Matej Andraz Vogrincic]], [[Apichatpong Weerasethakul]], [[Jun Yang (artist)|Jun Yang]], [[Yang Jiechang]].

===2008===
[[File:One Year in Liverpool - Do you feel lonely.jpg|thumb|One Year in Liverpool]]
The theme and title of the Biennial's showpiece ''International 08'' exhibition was "Made Up".<ref>[http://www.biennial.com/content/Programme/International1.aspx "The fifth edition of Liverpool Biennial’s International exhibition"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071121013112/http://www.biennial.com/content/Programme/International1.aspx |date=21 November 2007 }}, biennial.com. Retrieved 5 February 2008.</ref>

Throughout 2008 as part of Liverpool's year as [[European Capital of Culture]], new commissions for the public realm included ''Winter Lights'' (a series of neon lights by international artists, such as Frank Scurti and Michael Pinsky, in collaboration with local communities), ''Visible Virals'' ([[Art intervention|interventionist artworks]] in public spaces and buildings in the city), and a series of ''Pavilions'' (creating spaces for cultural activity in local communities).

Again there was also the John Moores Painting Prize (No. 25), the [[New Contemporaries]] and The Independents.

Participating artists included [[Ai Weiwei]], [[David Altmejd]], [[Atelier Bow-Wow]], [[Guy Ben-Ner]], [[Manfredi Beninati]], [[David Blandy]], [[U-Ram Choe]], [[Adam Cvijanovic]], [[Nancy Davenport]], [[Diller Scofidio + Renfro]], [[Leandro Erlich]], [[Omer Fast]], [[Adrian Ghenie]], [[Rodney Graham]], [[Tue Greenfort]], [[Hubbard & Birchler|Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler]], [[Alison Jackson (artist)|Alison Jackson]], [[Jesper Just]], [[Otto Karvonen]], [[Yayoi Kusama]], [[Ulf Langheinrich]] (Granular-Synthesis), [[Luisa Lambri]], [[Gabriel Lester]], [[Annette Messager]], [[Tracey Moffatt]], Yoko Ono, [[Ged Quinn]], [[Khalil Rabah]], [[The Royal Art Lodge]], [[Sarah Sze]], [[Tomas Saraceno]], Richard Woods.

===2010===
The 6th biennial in Liverpool was launched with a one night exhibition by [[Filip Gilissen]] on 14 May 2010 and ran from 18 September 2010 to 28 November 2010. It contained six programmes of contemporary art including: Bloomberg [[New Contemporaries]], City States, John Moores Painting Prize 2010, S.Q.U.A.T. Liverpool 2010, and The Cooperative.

Displays included works by [[Alfredo Jaar]], [[Do-Ho Suh]] and the first UK presentation of any work by [[Tehching Hsieh]].<ref>Biggs, Domela, Waldron and Kirk (eds) "Liverpool Biennial International Festival of Contemporary Art The Guide". Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art Ltd. {{ISBN|978-0-9536761-8-7}}</ref>

The visitor centre was located in the former Rapid Hardware shop on Renshaw Street.

Participating artists included [[Sachiko Abe]], [[Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan]], [[Laura Belem]], [[Emese Benczur]], [[Daniel Bozhkov]], [[Nina Canell]], [[Danica Dakic]], [[Song Dong]], [[Wannes Goetschalckx]], [[NS Harsha]], [[Diango Hernandez]], [[Nicholas Hlobo]], [[Jamie Isenstein]], [[Alfredo Jaar]], [[Eva Kotatkova]], [[Will Kwan]], [[Lars Laumann]], [[Antii Laitinen]], [[Minouk Lim]], [[Cristina Lucas]], [[Tala Madani]], [[Yves Netzhammer]], [[Raymond Pettibon]], [[Ranjani Shettar]], [[Do-Ho Suh]], [[Franz West]], [[Hector Zamora]], [[Tehching Hsieh]], [[Carlos Martiel]], [[Kris Martin]], [[Otto Muehl]], [[Carol Rama]], [[Ryan Trecartin]], [[Magdalena Abakanowicz]], [[Aimé Mpane]], [[Oren Eliav]], [[Tim Eitel]], [[Edi Hila]], [[Y.Z. Kami]], [[Zbynek Sedlecky]], [[Minerva Cuevas]], [[Meschac Gaba]], [[Clegg & Guttmann]], [[Daniel Knorr]], [[Lee Mingwei]], [[Rob Pruitt]], [[Anton Vidokle]] / [[Julieta Aranda]], [[Tania Bruguera]], [[Carlos Amorales]].
Liverpool Biennial 2010 was curated by Lorenzo Fusi, Artistic Director in collaboration with: Frances Loeffler and Raj Sandhu.

===2012===
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For its 7th edition, Liverpool Biennial explored the theme of hospitality, inviting artists and thinkers to bring forth new understandings for our increasingly globalised and complex times.
The biennial exhibition, ''The Unexpected Guest'', comprised 62 international artists, and the Cunard Building was used as a venue for the first time.
The programme included: ''Sky Arts Ignition Series'', in partnership with '''[[Tate Liverpool]]''', a public commission by US artist, [[Doug Aitken]], installed on [[Royal Albert Dock, Liverpool|Albert Dock]] in a temporary structure designed by [[David Adjaye]]; American composer [[Rhys Chatham]], known for his large-scale performance works presented a concert as part of the opening weekend; one of Argentina's most established and internationally renowned artists, Jorge Macchi, presented ''Refraction'' in the LJMU Copperas Hill Building; Israeli artist, Oded Hirsch presented ''Lift'' a work which appeared to burst through the floor of Liverpool ONE - Liverpool's retail destination.

Artists who were part of ''The Unexpected Guest'' included Doug Aitken with David Adjaye, [[John Akomfrah]], [[Hurvin Anderson]], [[Janine Antoni]], [[Keith Arnatt]], [[Kader Attia]], [[Yael Bartana]], [[Sylvie Blocher]], [[Andrea Bowers]], [[Sophie Calle]], Rhys Chatham, [[Libia Castro]] and Ólafur Ólafsson, [[Enrico David]], [[Eugenio Dittborn]], [[Elmgreen and Dragset]], [[Peter Fischli & David Weiss]], [[FormContent]], [[Dora Garcia]], [[Gilbert and George]], [[Simryn Gill]], [[Mona Hatoum]], [[Fritz Haeg]], [[Oded Hirsch]], [[Thomas Hirschhorn]], [[Nadia Kaabi Linke]], [[Markus Kahre]], [[William Kentridge]], [[Anja Kirschner]] and [[David Panos]], [[Jakob Kolding]], [[Jiri Kovanda]], [[Suzanne Lacy]], [[Runo Lagomarsino]], [[Jorge Macchi]], [[Dane Mitchell]], [[Sabelo Mlangeni]], [[Mark Morrisroe]], [[Patrick Murphy (artist)|Patrick Murphy]], [[Ahmet Ögüt]], [[Field Operations]], [[Trevor Paglen]], [[Christodoulos Panayiotou]], [[Martin Parr]], [[Pedro Reyes (artist)|Pedro Reyes]], [[Rhizome]], [[Pamela Rosenkranz]], [[George Shaw (artist)|George Shaw]], [[Pak Sheung Chuen]], [[Patrick Waterhouse]], [[Mikhael Subotzky]], [[Superflex]], [[Sinta Tantra]], [[Althea Thauberger]], [[Mark Titchner]], [[Jeanne van Heeswijk]], [[Mark Wallinger]], [[Jemima Wyman]], [[Ming Wong]], [[Kohei Yoshiyuki]] and [[Akram Zaatari]]

Liverpool Biennial 2012 was curated by [[Sally Tallant]], Artistic Director; ''The Unexpected Guest'' by: [[Lorenzo Fusi]], Curator, Liverpool Biennial in collaboration with: [[Sara-Jayne Parsons]], the [[Bluecoat]]; [[Mike Stubbs]] and [[Omar Kholeif]], [[FACT (the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology)|FACT]]; [[Karen Newman (art curator)|Karen Newman]], [[Open Eye Gallery]]; [[Sook-Kyung Lee]], [[Tate Liverpool]] and [[Jenny Porter]], [[Metal Liverpool]].

===2014===
The 8th biennial, ''A Needle Walks into a Haystack'', opened on 5 July 2014 and ran until 26 October 2014.<ref name="B2014home">{{cite web|url=http://www.biennial.com/2014|access-date=11 July 2014|title=Liverpool Biennial - 2014 - Intro}}</ref>

Artists that exhibited as part of ''A Needle Walks into a Haystack'' include: Uri Aran, Marc Bauer, Bonnie Camplin, [[Jef Cornelis]], [[Carlos Cruz-Diez]], Chris Evans, Rana Hamadeh, Louise Hervé & Chloé Maillet, Judith Hopf, Aaron Flint Jamison, Norma Jeane, [[Nicola L.]], Sharon Lockhart, William Leavitt, [[James McNeill Whistler]], [[Michael Nyman]], [[Claude Parent]], Christina Ramberg, Michael Stevenson, Josef Strau, Stefan Tcherepnin, Peter Wächtler and Amelie von Wulffen.

Liverpool Biennial 2014 was curated by Mai Abu ElDahab and Anthony Huberman.

16 artists' works were shown in The Old Blind School on Hardman St.<ref name="18site">{{cite web|url=http://www.biennial.com/blog/2014/06/05/share-your-stories-an-iconic-building-brought-back-to-life|access-date=7 January 2015|title=Liverpool Biennial - Blog - Share Your Stories: An Iconic Building Brought Back to Life}}</ref> There were two external works by Carlos Cruz-Diez,<ref name="dazzleship">{{cite web|url=http://www.biennial.com/collaborations/carlos-cruz-diez-dazzle-ship|access-date=7 January 2015|title=Liverpool Biennial - 2014 - Carlos Cruz-Diez}}</ref> including a [[Dazzle camouflage#Arts|Dazzle Ship]].

===2016===

The ninth edition of Liverpool Biennial ran from 9 July 2016 to 16 October 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/ultimate-guide-liverpool-biennial-2016-11587709|access-date=26 September 2016|title=Liverpool Echo – Your ultimate guide to the Liverpool Biennial|date=8 July 2016 }}</ref>

44 international artists were commissioned to create new works for locations across the city. The artists were: [[Lawrence Abu Hamdan]], Andreas Angelidakis, Alisa Baremboym, Lucy Beech, Sarah Browne and Jesse Jones, Mariana Castillo Deball, Yin-Ju Chen, Ian Cheng, [[Marvin Gaye Chetwynd]], Céline Condorelli, Audrey Cottin, Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Jason Dodge, [[Lara Favaretto]], Danielle Freakley, Coco Fusco, Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni, Hato, [[Ana Jotta]], Samson Kambalu, Oliver Laric, [[Mark Leckey]], Adam Linder, Marcos Lutyens, [[Jumana Manna]], Rita McBride, Dennis McNulty, Elena Narbutaite, Lu Pingyuan, Michael Portnoy, Sahej Rahal, Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh & Hesam Rahmanian ([[Ramin, Rokni, Hesam]]), [[Kōki Tanaka (artist)|Koki Tanaka]], [[Suzanne Treister]], Villa Design Group, Krzysztof Wodiczko, [[Betty Woodman]], and [[Arseny Zhilyaev]].

In 2016, Liverpool Biennial also presented an exhibition of works by ten Associate Artists, based in the North of England: [[Simeon Barclay]], Jacqueline Bebb, Lindsey Bull, Robert Carter & Lauren Velvick, Nina Chua, Matthew Crawley, [[Frances Disley]], Daniel Fogarty, Harry Meadley, and Stephen Sheehan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2016/03/completely-committed-to-the-development-of-young-talent-introducing-liverpool-biennials-associate-artists-programme/|access-date=26 September 2016|title=The Double Negative – "Completely committed to the development of young talent": Introducing Liverpool Biennial's Associate Artists Programme}}</ref>

The Liverpool Biennial 2016 exhibition was conceived as a series of 'episodes' drawing inspiration from Liverpool's past, present and future, named as ''Ancient Greece'', ''Chinatown'', ''The Children’s Episode'', ''Monuments from the Future'', ''Flashback'', and ''Software''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/art/liverpool-biennial-review-exploring-the-citys-past-present-and-f/|access-date=26 September 2016|title=The Telegraph – Liverpool Biennial review: exploring the city's past, present and future|newspaper=The Telegraph |date=15 July 2016 |last1=Buck |first1=Louisa }}</ref>

Among the locations for Liverpool Biennial 2016 were the Cains Brewery on Stanhope Street, the former ABC Cinema on Lime Street, the Oratory, [[High Park Reservoir|Toxteth Reservoir]], streets, squares, restaurants, a supermarket, and all the key visual art venues in the city including Tate Liverpool, FACT, Open Eye Gallery and Bluecoat.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artinliverpool.com/liverpool-biennial-2016/|access-date=26 September 2016|title=ArtinLiverpool.com – Liverpool Biennial 2016}}</ref> Also presented during the 2016 Biennial are the John Moores Painting Prize 2016 at Walker Art Gallery, Bloomberg [[New Contemporaries]] 2016 at Bluecoat, and the Biennial Fringe.

Liverpool Biennial 2016 was curated by Sally Tallant, Dominic Willsdon, Francesco Manacorda, Raimundas Malasauskas, Joasia Krysa, Rosie Cooper, Polly Brannan, Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey, Ying Tan, Sandeep Parmar, and Steven Cairns.

===2018===
The 2018 Biennial ran from 14 July to 28 October 2018 and was called ''Beautiful world, where are you?''.<ref name="LB2018" />

Artists included [[Ryan Gander]],<ref name="RGander18">{{ cite web|url=https://www.biennial.com/2018/exhibition/artists/ryan-gander|access-date=23 July 2018|title=Ryan Gander with Jamie Clark, Phoebe Edwards, Tianna Mehta, Maisie Williams and Joshua Yates &#124; Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art}}</ref> [[Suki Seokyeong Kang]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://biennial.com/2018/exhibition/artists/suki-seokyeong-kang |title=Suki Seokyeong Kang |publisher=Liverpool Biennial |year=2018 |access-date=13 August 2020}}</ref> and [[Melanie Smith (artist)|Melanie Smith]].<ref name="MSmith18">{{Cite web|url=https://www.biennial.com/2018/exhibition/artists/melanie-smith|access-date=23 July 2019|title=Melanie Smith &#124; Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art}}</ref>

===2021===
The 11th biennial curated by Manuela Moscoso and titled ''The Stomach and the Port''  ran from 20 March to 6 June 2021 in Liverpool and online.<ref name="Tate2021">{{cite web|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/exhibition/liverpool-biennial
|title=Liverpool Biennial
}}</ref> Artists include [[Linder Sterling|Linder]], [[Judy Chicago]], [[Ithell Colquhoun]], [[Ines Doujak]], [[Nicholas Hlobo]], [[Jutta Koether]], [[Ebony Patterson|Ebony G. Patterson]], [[Anu Põder]], and [[Martine Syms]].<ref name="Tate2021" />

===2023===
The 12th edition of Liverpool Biennial, ''uMoya: The sacred Return of Lost Things'', ran from 10 June to 17 September 2023. The Biennial addressed the history and temperament of the city of Liverpool and was a call for ancestral and indigenous forms of knowledge, wisdom and healing. Liverpool Biennial 2023 was curated by Khanyisile Mbongwa.

===2025===
Liverpool Biennial 2025, titled ‘BEDROCK’, draws on Liverpool’s geography and the beliefs which underpin the city’s social foundations, acting as a metaphor for the people places and values that ground all of us. It is inspired by the sandstone which spans the city region and is found in its distinctive architecture. 

The 13th edition is curated by Marie-Anne McQuay and will take place 7 June - 14 September 2025.