BIENNIAL EXHIBITION PARTNER EXHIBITIONS Liverpool 1 11 23 ABC Cinema Liverpool ONE John Moores Painting Prize Lime Street and Elliot Street Paradise Street, L8 8JF Walker Art Gallery L1 1JN William Brown Street 12 L3 8EL Biennial 2 Derby Square Cains Brewery L1 7NU 8 Stanhope Street, L8 5XJ Bloomberg New 13 Contemporaries 2016 2016 3 Exchange Flags Bluecoat, School Lane The Oratory L2 3YL L1 3BX Liverpool Cathedral St James Mount, L1 7AZ 14 Toxteth Reservoir Centre for Chinese 4 High Park Street, L8 8DX Contemporary Art Saw Mill (Open Saturday and Sunday) Market Buildings Parr Street, L1 4JN 13 Thomas St 15 Manchester, M4 1EU 5 Granby Four Streets Tate Liverpool 143 Granby Street, L8 2UR Albert Dock Liverpool Waterfront 16 ANNUAL COMMISSIONS L3 4BB Welsh Streets Kelvin Grove and High 6 Park Street, L8 3UG FACT 24 88 Wood Street, L1 4DQ 17 Granby Workshop Welsh Streets 142 Granby Street, L8 2US 7 Rhiwlas Street, L8 3UA Open Eye Gallery 25 19 Mann Island 18 Pullman Hotel Liverpool Waterfront Epic Hotel Kings Dock, L3 4FP L3 1BP 75 Duke Street, L1 5AA 26 Gu de 8 19 Everton Park Bluecoat Mr Chilli Restaurant Prince Edwin Street / School Lane, L1 3BX 92 Seel Street, L1 4BL Roscommon Street, L5 3NG 20 9 27 Exhibition Research Lab Master Chef Restaurant Mersey Ferries Terminal John Lennon Art & Design Renshaw Street, L1 2SJ Pier Head, Georges Parade Building, Liverpool John L3 1DP 21 Moores University Duckinfield Street, L3 5RD Hondo Chinese Supermarket 5–11 Upper Duke Street, L1 9DU 10 George’s Dock 22 Festival of Contemporary Art Ventilation Tower Plaza Liverpool Biennial George’s Dock Way, L3 1DD Associate Artists 9 July – 16 October India Buildings Free 31 Water Street, L2 0RD Pall Mall St Moss Churchill Way Hatton Garden Trueman St Old Hall St Norton St Islington 26 Daulby St Daulby Liverpool Biennial 2016 Cheapside Brook St Churchill Way BIENNIAL EXHIBITION 23 London Rd Bixteth St Vernon St William Brown St Anson St 9 July – 16 October Edmund St Hato and Childwall Academy Hello Future Me PARTNER EXHIBITION London Rd #SpaceBus Princes Parade New Quay Moorfields St. John’s 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ? ! . 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Liverpool Visitor Information Biennial 2016 explores fictions, stories and histories, taking We hope you enjoy your viewers on a series of voyages through time and space, stay in Liverpool as you drawing on Liverpool’s past, present and future. These explore the Biennial journeys take the form of six ‘episodes’: Ancient Greece, exhibitions and events. Chinatown, Children’s Episode, Software, Monuments Visit our Visitor Hub from the Future and Flashback. They are sited in galleries, at Cains Brewery, public spaces, unused buildings, through live performance Stanhope Street, L8 5XJ. and online. Many of the artists have made work for It is open daily from more than one episode, some works are repeated across 10am – 6pm. different episodes, and some venues host more than one episode. For exhibition opening For Liverpool Biennial 2016, a Curatorial Faculty times, please consult has been assembled to work together, sharing different individual venue interests and expertise. I am grateful to all of them pages in the guide or for participating with me in such an open and www.biennial.com collaborative process. For the first time, artists have worked together with Contact Us children to produce new work for the Biennial. An exciting +44 (0)330 123 0584 new partnership with Arriva North West has enabled us [email protected] Bie nial to commission artists to paint three working buses that will be in service in the region during the Biennial. Booking Information We are excited to be collaborating with CACTUS Entrance to exhibitions and and Independent Curators International to present work events is free unless stated by ten Associate Artists who are participating in a new otherwise. Where booking long-term programme of mentoring and research. We are is required, visit Exhibiti n once more delighted to present the John Moores Painting www.biennial.com Prize and Bloomberg New Contemporaries, which have both been partners of the Biennial since the first edition Connect in 1999. Tate Liverpool, FACT, Open Eye Gallery, Bluecoat, #Biennial2016 The Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art and Liverpool @biennial John Moores University’s Exhibition Research Lab are @liverpoolbiennial our exhibition partners and we are grateful to them for /liverpoolbiennial their collaboration. We are also grateful to our many supporters and in Share your photos with particular Arts Council England and Liverpool City Council us using #Biennial2016 Ancient Greece for their continued support. There are many organisations presenting exhibitions Chinatown and projects in the city concurrently with the Biennial. Children’s Episode They have been listed in a separate guide. Monuments from the Future Sally Tallant, Director Flashback Software 4 Biennial Exhibition www.biennial.com #Biennial2016 Biennial Exhibition 5 Artists Episodes Lawrence Abu Hamdan Samson Kambalu Andreas Angelidakis Oliver Laric Alisa Baremboym Mark Leckey Lucy Beech Adam Linder Sarah Browne & Marcos Lutyens Jesse Jones Jumana Manna Mariana Castillo Deball Rita McBride Yin-Ju Chen Dennis McNulty Ian Cheng Elena Narbutaite Marvin Gaye Chetwynd Lu Pingyuan Céline Condorelli Michael Portnoy The Black-E and Chinese Arch. Photo: Shirlaine Forrest / Getty Images Audrey Cottin Sahej Rahal Koenraad Dedobbeleer Ramin Haerizadeh, ANCIENT GREECE CHINATOWN In the early 1800s, architects such as Liverpool’s Chinatown has existed since Jason Dodge Rokni Haerizadeh & John Foster and Harvey Lonsdale Elmes the late 1890s and is the oldest in Europe. Lara Favaretto Hesam Rahmanian built Liverpool’s neoclassical cityscape Its entrance is marked by a traditional arch as a second version of Ancient Greece. imported from Shanghai. In the same way Danielle Freakley Koki Tanaka This allowed the rising elite of merchants that the city’s merchant class linked itself Coco Fusco Suzanne Treister who benefitted from colonial trade to Ancient Greece through neoclassical Fabien Giraud & Villa Design Group and the industrial revolution to fashion architecture, this arch links Liverpool’s themselves, and their civic commitment, Chinese community to an image of home. Raphaël Siboni Krzysztof Wodiczko as a reenactment of the legendary cradle Chinese immigration was, as with many Hato Betty Woodman of democracy.