Liverpool Biennial

Liverpool Biennial 2025 starts here!🙌⁠ ⁠ Titled ‘BEDROCK’, #LB2025 is inspired by the physical and social foundations of Liverpool and the people, places and values that ground us.⁠ ⁠⁠ New commissions and existing artworks will be unveiled across the city at galleries including the Bluecoat, FACT Liverpool, Open Eye Gallery, and Tate Liverpool at RIBA North, Liverpool Cathedral, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Central Library and in further unexpected spaces to be announced in Spring 2025. ⁠ 30 artists and collectives will respond to the theme of the 13th edition, curated by Marie-Anne McQuay 🌟 Find out more👇️ https://lnkd.in/eFeBbXEG ⁠ 🎨 Visual identity by Salt & Sister Studio (https://lnkd.in/etciTDdv)

COME AND WORK WITH US🌟⁠ ⁠ We're currently looking for 10 Festival Guides and an Operations Manager to join the team for Liverpool Biennial 2025!⁠ ⁠ ⭐️Festival Guides⁠ ⁠ Festival Guides provide the vital resource for a meaningful and enjoyable experience for all visitors to Liverpool Biennial 2025 by giving a knowledgeable, motivated and proactive welcome. Our group of 10 Festival Guides will be experts on Liverpool Biennial 2025 exhibitions and the city, responsible for the day-to-day running and forward-facing aspects of the festival.⁠ ⁠ Deadline: Sunday 23 February 2025, 11.59pm⁠ ⁠ ⭐️Operations Manager⁠ ⁠ The Operations Manager will oversee and be responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Biennial, have excellent knowledge of organisational operations, and experience of budget management as well as IT systems management. The Operations Manager will provide support with governance and HR administration and will act as Liverpool Biennial's Responsible Person for Health and Safety. ⁠ ⁠ Deadline: Sunday 16 March 2025, 11.59pm⁠ ⁠ To find out more head to the link below👇️ https://lnkd.in/eA5cdSsw ⁠ -⁠ ⁠ 📷️: Ranti Bam, Ifas, 2023. Installation view at St Nicholas Church Gardens, Liverpool Biennial 2023. Photography by Mark McNulty.

📢WE'RE HIRING!⁠ ⁠ We're looking for an Operations Manager who will oversee and be responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Biennial, have excellent knowledge of organisational operations, and experience of budget management as well as IT systems management. They will also provide support with governance and HR administration and will act as the Responsible Person for Health and Safety.⁠ ⁠ Deadline: 16 March 2025⌛️⁠ ⁠ -⁠ ⁠ For details on how to apply, head to our ‘work with us’ page 👇️https://lnkd.in/eA5cdSsw ⁠

📢WE'RE HIRING!⁠ ⁠ We're currently looking for a Project Coordinator and 10 Festival guides for Liverpool Biennial 2025.⁠ ⁠ The Project Coordinator will have excellent organisation and administration skills to coordinate and deliver two multi-faceted, multi-day events across summer 2025. This new, joint post between Liverpool Biennial, the British Council and a-n will work within the Liverpool Biennial delivery team to expertly manage two events programmes for delegations of international visitors to Liverpool during our 13th edition, BEDROCK. ⁠ ⁠ Deadline: 16 February 2025⌛️⁠ ⁠ The Festival Guides will provide the vital resources for a meaningful and enjoyable experience for all visitors at Liverpool Biennial 2025, by giving a knowledgeable, motivated and proactive welcome. Our group of 10 Festival Guides will be experts on Liverpool Biennial 2025 exhibitions and the city, responsible for the day-to-day running and forward-facing aspects of the festival.⁠ ⁠ Deadline: 23 February 2025⌛️⁠ ⁠ -⁠ ⁠ For details on how to apply head to our 'Work with us' page 👇️ https://lnkd.in/eA5cdSsw

Happy New Year!🎉⁠ ⁠ #LB2025 is just a few months away and we can't wait to share our plans with you all. ⁠ Until then, don't forget you can sign up to our newsletter to stay up to date with the latest Liverpool Biennial news 👀⁠ ⁠ Sign up here👇️ https://lnkd.in/eGqQgw78 - 📸: Antonio Obá, ‘Jardim’, 2022. Liverpool Biennial 2023 at Victoria Gallery & Museum. Photography by Mark McNulty

SEE YOU IN 2025!✨⁠ ⁠ We’re preparing for an exciting year ahead with just under 6 months to go until our 13th edition, taking place 7 June - 14 September 2025. ⁠ ⁠ Here are just some of our 2024 highlights:⁠ ⁠ 🖼️We announced Marie-Anne Mcquay as our Liverpool Biennial 2025 Curator⁠ ⁠ ✏️We worked with artist Stine Marie Jacobsen and a group of 7-11 year olds from St Anne's Catholic Primary School on 'Future, Before it Happens' which aimed to promote the wellbeing of young people in relation to the climate crisis. Workshop sessions encouraged children to imagine ways of tackling climate change, with their ideas expressed through a series of drawings.⁠ ⁠ The final film, produced in collaboration with the children, was presented at Bluecoat, alongside a series of workshops informed by the 'Future, Before it Happens' learning toolkit. The toolkit is still available to download on our website and is filled with climate-related activities you can do at home!⁠ ⁠ 🌱We transformed Alicja Biala's 'Merseyside Totemy', and ran workshops with the local schools involved (Formby High, Studio School and Wirral Hospital School) to think about ways to repurpose the artwork to avoid the materials going to landfills. Whilst two have been gifted to Formby High and Wirral Hospital School for display, the remaining totem was transformed into planters for all 3 schools involved.⁠ ⁠ 🎨We announced the theme and the 30 artists and collectives for LB2025, alongside unveiling the visual identity for the festival, designed by Salt and Sister Studio ⁠ 🌟We hosted a series of family workshops at Liverpool Central Library to inform the Children's Guide for our 2025 festival. Our next session is on 4 January 2025!⁠ ⁠ Thank you to all who attended workshops and events, supported us, and engaged with us this year 💕⁠ ⁠ We look forward to seeing you in the New Year!🙌⁠

🟦 Art and culture lovers will thank you for these books for Christmas... ...because they come highly recommended by leaders in the museum and art world 📚 I asked five key figures to recommend the book they most devoured in 2024 — and here's what they told me ⤵ (And click on the links below to buy them as Christmas gifts because you haven't got long until the big day! — *ad/affiliate) 🗣 Luke Syson, Director and Marlay Curator of The Fitzwilliam Museum 📖 The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing "The American artist Glenn Ligon has arranged a truly magnificent display of our flower paintings at the Fitzwilliam, revealing them as beautiful but troubling too. Laing’s rambling rose of a book does the same for the gardens they grew in — a sweeping landscape of yearning and control, gender, politics and race." [Buy a copy https://tidd.ly/3ZuoTYm] 🗣 Caroline Campbell, Director of the National Gallery of Ireland 📖 Architecture in Britain and Ireland, 1530-1830 by Steven Brindle "I want to recommend Steven Brindle’s major new history of architecture. I loved the sweep of the narrative, the inclusion of much that previous architectural histories have ignored, as well as the informed discussion of familiar buildings. It’s also beautifully produced and illustrated. Truly a lifetime achievement." [Buy a copy https://lnkd.in/etGdg48A] 🗣 Jonathan Badyal, Deputy Chair of the Black Country Living Museum, and Director of Communications at Universal Music Group UK 📖 The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin "This is an easy one as it’s the book I have probably gifted more than any before! Rick Rubin is the co-founder of Def Jam Records, and this is an astonishingly searching book, but equally it is full of simple tips and tricks for finding your inner creativity." [Buy a copy https://lnkd.in/ejC2Mb4r] 🗣 Emma Harper, Curator at the Charles Dickens Museum 📖 Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth by Natalie Haynes "Outside of my work I’m not a big non-fiction reader but Natalie Haynes makes reading anything a pleasure! Here she explores goddesses from a feminist perspective. Exploring how both the goddesses and myths have been portrayed over the centuries from the original sources to contemporary culture, Haynes uses her wit and passion to make us look afresh at these stories." [Buy a copy https://lnkd.in/eBPQTy3E] 🗣 Dr Sam Lackey, Director of Liverpool Biennial 📖 The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing "My most annotated and post-it-noted book (always a good sign) this year, was Olivia Laing’s beautiful book. As always, Laing’s writing does that deft dance between literature, art, politics, history and experience, drawing you down her garden path with a sense of much-needed possibility." [Buy a copy https://tidd.ly/3ZuoTYm]

WE'RE HIRING!📢⁠ ⁠ We're currently looking for a Front of House Coordinator and a Programme Assistant to join our team as we look towards Liverpool Biennial 2025.⁠ ⁠ The Front of House Coordinator will have excellent management, personal and organisational skills, to lead on all aspects of front of house and visitor services for Liverpool Biennial 2025. ⁠ ⁠ ⌛️Deadline: 26 January 2025⁠ ⁠ The Programme Assistant will support our Programme and Learning teams on the delivery of Liverpool Biennial 2025, with particular focus on administrative support throughout installation and delivery of the exhibitions, events and learning programme. ⁠ ⁠ ⌛️Deadline: 26 January 2025⁠ ⁠ -⁠ ⁠ For details on how to apply, head to our 'work with us' page - link below 👇️ ⁠ https://lnkd.in/eA5cdSsw

Since the start of the transformation of Alicja Biala's 'Merseyside Totemy', we've worked with Scouse Flowerhouse to host workshops for the schools involved in the project.⁠ ⁠ Students have been filling planters made out of one of the totems, learning about local soils and how to look after their plants as we look ahead to Spring.⁠ At Formby High and Wirral Hospital School, bulbs have been specially selected to encourage pollinators. At Studio School, the planter will live indoors and has been filled with various house and low-light plants that improve the air quality around them.⁠ ⁠ Watch this space for updates on plant progress! 🌱⁠ Special thanks to workshop facilitators Andrea Ku and Tim Brunsden⁠ ⁠ - ⁠ 📷️: (1-5) Rob Battersby

We need your help!⁠ ⁠ We recently launched our annual appeal and this #GivingTuesday we're asking our visitors and supporters to help us continue our work with children and young people across the Liverpool City Region and Merseyside.⁠ ⁠ Can you donate as little as £5 to help us deliver free workshops and collaborative artworks in schools, libraries and galleries? ⁠ ⁠ This year alone, we reached over 1,200 children and young people and have worked with four different schools across Merseyside, but it’s vital we continue this life-changing work in 2025 and reach even more people.⁠ ⁠ Your support matters! 💫⁠ ⁠ Find out more about how to donate on our 'Support Us' page 👇️ https://lnkd.in/eAeHwRGx ⁠ [Alt-text: Layered photos of workshops with schools including people drawing storyboards, planting seedlings, creating collages and talking to each other.]