A Visitor’s Guide to Liverpool Biennial 2016
Posted on 28 August 2016 by Liverpool Biennial
Cains Brewery. Photo: Mark McNulty
Liverpool Biennial 2016 runs until 16 October with free exhibitions, performances, talks, tours, screenings and family activities taking place across the city. Here’s everything you need to know to get the most out of your visit. – Read more
Your Arts & Culture Guide to Liverpool Biennial this Bank Holiday Weekend
Posted on 26 August 2016 by Liverpool Biennial
Lara Favaretto, Momentary Monument – The Stone, 2016. Photo: Mark McNulty
Liverpool Biennial 2016 has taken over the city this summer with hundreds of artworks, exhibitions and events in galleries, public spaces and unused buildings to visit for free. Here we've put together some of the top things to see and do this August Bank Holiday weekend. – Read more
Making a City-Wide Art Exhibition: 5 Things You Need to Know
Posted on 26 August 2016
Mariana Castillo Deball, To-day 9th of July 2016, 2016 in Liverpool ONE. Photo: Jerry Hardman-Jones
Mariana Castillo Deball, To-day 9th of July 2016, 2016 in Liverpool ONE. Photo: Jerry Hardman-Jones
Organising a city-wide art festival is no small feat. Two years in the making, Liverpool Biennial 2016 brings together more than 40 artists from across the world to present their work in the city’s art hubs, streets and lesser-known locations. But how do you go from concept to creation? Using the 2016 festival as an example, here are five things you need to know about making a contemporary art festival. – Read more
Do Not Open It
Posted on 8 August 2016 by Guest Blogger
Lu Pingyuan, Do Not Open It, 2016. Liverpool Biennial 2016. Photo: Joel Chester Fildes
Passing through the door that recently appeared in the wall of Cains Brewery on Stanhope Street in Liverpool, you would not find yourself inside the old Victorian building it backs on to, but instead in a secret location within the CFCCA gallery in Manchester... – Read more
How to Make a Space Bus
Posted on 25 July 2016 by Liverpool Biennial
Launching the Space Bus at Childwall Sports & Science Academy. Photo: Gareth Jones
The #SpaceBus is one of three double-decker artworks that hit the road this summer for people to ride and enjoy as part of Liverpool Biennial 2016. Titled Hello Future Me, the Arriva bus has been designed by Year 7 pupils at Childwall Sports & Science Academy, working in collaboration with designers Hato as part of the festival’s Children’s episode. But how did the project all come together? – Read more
Samson Kambalu: Play, Passion and The Gift
Posted on 13 June 2016 by Liverpool Biennial
Samson Kambalu, I levitate, 2016. Photo for Liverpool Biennial Instagram takeover
Liverpool Biennial 2016 artist Samson Kambalu works across different media to explore received ideas in art, history and religion. He spent a week in Liverpool creating a series of short videos using his method of ‘Psychogeographic Nyau Cinema’ – a combination of film and site specific performance – which will be shown as part of the six episodes around which this year’s exhibition is organised. Here Kambalu discusses James Bond, literature, The Gift, ruptures in time and how he discovered his passion as an artist. – Read more
What does it mean to be a painterly painter?
Posted on 23 May 2016
Lindsey Bull, section of Glade, 2015. Photo courtesy of the artist
What exactly does the expression ‘painterly’ really mean? Manchester-based painter and Liverpool Biennial Associate Artist, Lindsey Bull, was left contemplating this question following the Speed Meet event held at Bluecoat last month. The purpose of the evening was to introduce the ten artists based in the North-West that have been selected to take part in the programme, and to provide people with a flavour of their work. Here Bull reflects on some of the ideas and questions that came out of the rapid succession of conversations that arose. – Read more
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