Liverpool Biennial 2018
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BIENNIAL PARTNER EXHIBITION EXHIBITIONS Liverpool 1 9 WORLDS WITHIN 21 Tate Liverpool LJMU’s Exhibition WORLDS John Moores Royal Albert Dock, Research Lab Painting Prize 2018 Liverpool Waterfront LJMU’s John Lennon Some of these sites Walker Art Gallery L3 4BB Art & Design Building are open at irregular William Brown Street Biennial Duckinfield Street times or for special L3 8EL 2 L3 5RD events only. Refer to Open Eye Gallery p.37 for details. 23 19 Mann Island, 10 Bloomberg New Liverpool Waterfront Blackburne House 7 Contemporaries 2018 2018 L3 1BP Blackburne Place St George’s Hall LJMU’s John Lennon L8 7PE St George’s Place Art & Design Building 3 L1 1JJ Duckinfield Street RIBA North – National 11 L3 5RD Architecture Centre The Oratory 8 21 Mann Island, St James Mt L1 7AZ Victoria Gallery 24 Liverpool Waterfront & Museum This is Shanghai L3 1BP 12 Ashton Street, Mann Island & Liverpool University of The Cunard Building 4 Metropolitan Liverpool L3 5RF Liverpool Waterfront Bluecoat Cathedral Plateau School Lane L1 3BX Mount Pleasant 17 L3 5TQ Chalybeate Spring EXISTING 5 St James’ Gardens COMMISSIONS FACT 13 L1 7A Z 88 Wood Street Resilience Garden L1 4DQ 75–77 Granby Street 18 25 L8 2TX Town Hall Mersey Ferries 6 (Open Saturdays only) High Street L2 3SW Terminal The Playhouse Pier Head, Georges Theatre 14 19 Parade L3 1DP Williamson Square Invisible Wind Central Library L1 1EL Factory William Brown Street 26 (until 7 October) 3 Regent Road L3 8EW George’s Dock L3 7DS Ventilation Tower 7 20 George’s Dock Way St George’s Hall 15 World Museum L3 1DD St George’s Place Exchange Flags William Brown Street L1 1JJ L2 3SW L3 8EN 27 Derby Square 8 16 21 L1 7NU Victoria Gallery Great George Street Walker Art Gallery & Museum L1 7BX William Brown Street 28 Ashton Street, L3 8EL Parliament Street / University of 17 Great George Street Liverpool L69 3DR St James’ Gardens 22 L8 5RW Chalybeate Spring Garstang Museum L1 7A Z of Archaeology 29 14 Abercromby Wolstenholme Square Festival of Contemporary Art Square L69 7WZ L1 4JJ 14 July – 28 October Check inside this guide or at biennial.com for opening days and times Pall Mall St Moss Churchill Way Hatton Garden Trueman St Old Hall St Norton St Islington Daulby St Daulby Liverpool Biennial 2018 Cheapside 21 Brook St Churchill Way 20 19 London Rd BIENNIAL EXHIBITION Bixteth St Vernon St Anson St William Brown St 14 July – 28 October Edmund St London Rd WORLDS WITHIN WORLDS Princes Parade New Quay Moorfields St John’s Crosshall St Free Tithebarn St Seymour St Old Gardens Pembroke Rd PARTNER EXHIBITION HaymarketSt John’s Lane St George’s Sir Thomas St Hall Lord Nelson St Exchange St EXISTING COMMISSION Victoria St 7 Great Newton St Stanley St St Georges Place Brownlow St Brownlow 14 Dale St Ashton St Rumford St 15 Chapel St North John St Covent Garden Lime Street 18 Queens Square Station Bus Station Russell St Castle St Victoria St WhitechapelWillamson Copperas Hill Square Renshaw St 15 weeks of exhibitions, performances, film Fenwick St St Nicholas Pl Richmond St 6 Drury Lane Cook St Elliot St The Liver Water St chapel 8 screenings, family events, talks and tours across Building The Goree White Brownlow Hill Canada Boulevard Brunswick St Williamson St Liverpool’s public spaces, galleries, museums and Tarleton St Lord St Lord St Church St Duckinfield St Basnett St Parker St South John St Brownlow Hill Clarence St 9 12 27 Ranelagh St civic buildings School Lane 26 James StDerby Square Liverpool Mount Pleasant 23 Liverpool 25 Central Station ONE 4 Wood St Bold St Metropolitan Mount Pleasant Strand College Lane Renshaw St Mann Island 2 Hanover St Cathedral 24 River Museum of 3 Chavasse Park Gradwell Mersey Liverpool Fleet St Bold St Oxford St Liverpool ONE Seel St Canning Thomas Steers Way Hanover St Bus Station Paradise Street St Dock St Mulberry Roscoe St Biennial Exhibition p.3 Wolstenholme 29 Rodney St Square Liverpool Duke St Hope StEveryman 22 Canning Place Parr St Seel St 5 Public Programme p.39 Argyle St Slater St Hardman St Maritime Partner Exhibitions p.53 Museum Parr St York St Myrtle St Salthouse Quay Duke St Back Colquitt St Salthouse Henry St Visitor Information p.59 Myrtle St 1 Dock Liver St Colquitt St Hope Place Berry St Roscoe St Henry St Rodney St Albert Dock Knight St Pilgrim St Park LaneUpper Frederick St Falkner St Hope St Duke St Mount St 10 St Bedford Events Calendar is on the inside back cover Gower St Blackburne Place Wapping Kent St Cornwallis St Upper Duke St 11 Canning St Catharine St Big Wheel St James St Nelson St Bedford St 17 Hope St Blundell St Great George St ACC Liverpool 16 Huskisson St Jamaica St Liverpool Cathedral Kings Parade Chaloner St Princes Rd13 Upper Parliament St 28 Princes Rd St James Upper Stanhope St Windsor St Queens Parliament St Dock Grafton St #LB2018 0 100 200 300 Front, back cover and title pages: Place metres biennial.com Paul Elliman, The Day Shapes, 2018 Stanhope St 2 Liverpool Biennial 2018 biennial.com Introduction Welcome to the 10th edition of Liverpool Biennial as we Visitor Information celebrate 20 years of presenting international art in the city and region. Beautiful world, where are you? is a call Opening Hours to artists and audiences to reflect on a world in social, All exhibitions are open political and economic turmoil. Tuesday to Sunday, with Kitty Scott (Carol and Morton Rapp Curator, Modern public artworks and and Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario) some venues also open has co-curated Liverpool Biennial 2018 with me, the Mondays. Check individual Liverpool Biennial team and our partners in the city. venues’ pages in this I am grateful to her and to them for their commitment guide or biennial.com and thoughtful work on this ambitious project. for opening times. Over 40 artists from 22 countries present work that responds to Beautiful world, where are you? The city of Contact Us Liverpool provides the setting with its public spaces, [email protected] galleries, museums and great civic buildings. We are +44 (0)300 234 0022 delighted that artists have created ambitious and engaging projects with children and local communities for this Booking Information Biennial, building new relationships and solidifying those Entrance to exhibitions and that already exist. As an additional strand, Worlds within events is free unless stated worlds invites audiences to explore the rich histories and otherwise. To book, please Biennial stories evoked by objects and artefacts from the city’s civic visit biennial.com collections and architecture. Liverpool Biennial 2018 also welcomes partner Connect exhibitions John Moores Painting Prize, celebrating its @biennial 60th anniversary; Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018; @liverpoolbiennial This is Shanghai; and the Biennial fringe. /liverpoolbiennial Exhibition This is a special year for the city and we are thrilled to be part of Liverpool 2018, a year-long programme Share your photos and that proudly showcases the city’s culture and creativity thoughts with #LB2018 a decade on from its accolade as European Capital of Culture. Audio Guide We are very grateful to our many supporters and in Go to bit.ly/liv-bi or scan particular Arts Council England and Liverpool City Council this QR code with your for their continued support. phone’s camera for our I hope you will enjoy exploring this year’s programme free audio guide. of exhibitions and events. Sally Tallant, Director 4 Biennial Exhibition biennial.com #LB2018 Biennial Exhibition 5 Artists Madiha Aijaz Brian Jungen Abbas Akhavan Janice Kerbel Morehshin Allahyari Duane Linklater Francis Alÿs Mae-ling Lokko Ei Arakawa Taus Makhacheva Kevin Beasley Ari Benjamin Meyers Mohamed Bourouissa Naeem Mohaiemen Banu Cennetog˘lu Paulina Olowska The 10th edition of Liverpool Biennial, sets off the shortness and insignificance of Shannon Ebner George Osodi Beautiful world, where are you? invites human life. artists and audiences to reflect on a world Today, the line from the poem continues Paul Elliman Silke Otto-Knapp in turmoil. to resonate in a world gripped by deep Inci Eviner Mathias Poledna The title derives from a line in a poem, uncertainty; a world of social, political, Die Götter Griechenlands, written by the economic, even climatic turmoil. We can Aslan Gaisumov Annie Pootoogook German poet Friedrich Schiller in 1788 understand it as an invitation to reconsider and set to music by Austrian composer our past and to advance a new sense of Ryan Gander with Reetu Sattar Franz Schubert in 1819. While the verse beauty that might be shared in a more Jamie Clark, Suki Seokyeong Kang is an ode to the glory of ancient Greece, equitable way. here the emphasis falls on a lament for Phoebe Edwards, Iacopo Seri what has been lost. That sense of loss was Beautiful world, where are you? is curated by Kitty widespread in the early part of the 19th Scott (Carol and Morton Rapp Curator, Modern and Tianna Mehta, Melanie Smith century, unsurprisingly given that the years Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario) and between the composition of Schiller’s poem Sally Tallant (Director, Liverpool Biennial) with the Maisie Williams The Serving Library and Schubert’s song saw great upheaval Liverpool Biennial team. and Joshua Yates Agnès Varda and profound change, from the French Revolution to the fall of the Napoleonic Partners: Bluecoat (Marie-Anne McQuay, Head Joseph Grigely Joyce Wieland Empire. It was an era that introduced a of Programme and Adam Smythe, Curator); FACT modern age of indifference and alienation. (Mike Stubbs, Director and Ana Botella, Head of Dale Harding Haegue Yang It was also a moment when science Programme); LJMU’s Exhibition Research Lab was reshaping the understanding of nature, (Professor Joasia Krysa, Director); Open Eye Gallery Holly Hendry Chou Yu-Cheng revealing that it was radically removed from (Thomas Dukes, Curator); RIBA North – National Lamia Joreige Rehana Zaman the scale of the individual.