Contemporary art takes over our city once more through Liverpool’s Biennial Festival, the UK’s largest free festival of contemporary visual art.
The Liverpool Biennial of 2025 is based on ‘BEDROCK’ which is going to allow the artists involved to be inspired by and add a part of the foundations that their communities have built. It has been curated this year by Marie-Anne McQuay and will be travelling around the city with many locations taking on exhabitions, such as Liverpool Cathedral, Walker Art Gallery, and Liverpool Central Library, with further venues and sites to be announced in Spring 2025.
This year, Curator Marie Anne said:
“The city’s geological foundations and its psyche have provided the starting point for the conversations of Liverpool Biennial 2025, with the invited artists bringing us their own definition of ‘BEDROCK.’ Definitions include family and chosen family, cultural heritage carried across generations, and the environments that nurture and restore them. Central to this understanding of BEDROCK is the sense of loss that comes from the ongoing legacies of colonialism and empires, so formative to Liverpool’s foundations. In response to the city, artists have taken inspiration from Liverpool’s archives and histories, from their communities and civic spirit, and from taking time to dwell in its green spaces that support plant, insect, and bird life in unexpected ways through planned and unplanned urban developments.
This edition of the Liverpool Biennial took place from June 7 to September 14, 2025.
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