Year Round

Liverpool Biennial also has a year-round role commissioning art for the public realm. Past projects include Antony Gormley’s stunning work Another Place, which has found a permanent home at Crosby beach, and the highly acclaimed Turning the Pace Over by Richard Wilson, which literally turns a building inside-out.

The mission through all our activities is ‘engaging art, people and place’. We do this by commissioning artworks and other programmes collaboratively, in partnership with a myriad of organisations and individuals, from the city’s established art institutions to community groups in local neighbourhoods. These activities find support from a range of local authorities, private trusts and regeneration agencies in the city region and beyond.

We also work towards ambitious educational objectives, through a programme of activities developed within the context of the work we commission. We play a key role in the ongoing development of Liverpool as a place for artists to learn, live and work, and engage in discourse-based activity with peers locally, nationally and internationally.