Liverpool Biennial Launches 11th Edition Titled The Stomach And The Port / /
The Liverpool Biennial is always one of the highlights of the out of London season. It is the UK’s first and most important international biennial showcasing nine new exhibitions and bringing together the complete presentation of the 11th Edition. Titled, The Stomach and the Port the event runs until 27 June. This final chapter complements the outdoor sculptures, installations, sonic and digital commissions, and online event programme on the Biennial Online Portal, which launched in March. Now, in line with Government guidance, the Biennial is opening more doors to Liverpool, welcoming visitors to safely enjoy the UK’s largest free festival of contemporary art.
Yan Du pictured with a work by Sonia Gomes (hanging) and sculpture by Martin Creed Photo: Kenny X. Li
Born near Beijing in mainland China, the art collector and patron Yan Du now lives between Hong Kong and London. Yan started collecting around 13 years ago and since then has amassed a collection of over 300 works of art from the 1920s to the present day, with a concentration on the work of female artists, including Louise Bourgeois, Georgia O’Keefe, Lee Krasner, Cindy Sherman, Yayoi Kusama, Roni Horn, Shirin Neshat, Issy Wood and Lee Bul.
Rather than any preconceived agenda, it was after giving birth to her first daughter that she found herself becoming more drawn to female artists, such as Bourgeois. I experienced their work on a different level, she says. It s not about feminism per se, it s about our identity, an emotive experience.
Highlights from the Gwangju Biennale
Curated by Defne Ayas and Natasha Ginwala, this year’s edition explores transnational kinships and inherited healing practices to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Gwangju May Uprising
One of Asia’s most prominent art exhibitions, the Gwangju Biennale – originally slated for 2020, but postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic – opened its 13th edition exploring the limits of individual cognition and the transcendent possibilities of what co-curators Defne Ayas and Natasha Ginwala define in their mission statement as ‘the extended mind’. Titled ‘Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning’, this iteration includes works by 69 artists across four venues, a series of site-specific commissions around the city, and a digital programme of podcasts, videos and online publications.
Liverpool Biennial 2021 announces opening date for its indoor exhibitions
After postponing twice, galleries and buildings across Liverpool city centre are poised to launch their Liverpool Biennial exhibitions
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Evan Ifekoya (B.O.S.S member), Ritual Without Belief (01), 2018. Installation view at Gasworks. B.O.S.S will be exhibiting a new work at FACT for the Liverpool Biennial (Image: Courtesy the artist. Photo: Andy Keate)
Liverpool Biennial 2021 will open nine free indoor exhibitions on May 19 in galleries and buildings across the city centre.
These shows will complete the festival - adding to the programme of outdoor sculptures and other works that were unveiled in March.
Liverpool Biennial 2021 Announce Outdoor And Digital Commissions / /
The 11th edition of the Liverpool Biennial will open the first ‘outside’ chapter of The Stomach and the Port on 20 March 2021, starting with a major new outdoor sculpture series, sonic and digital commissions by nine different artists, alongside the new Biennial Online Portal (liverpoolbiennial2021.com). The second ‘inside’ chapter will launch the full festival of exhibitions and events hosted by critical venues throughout Liverpool in late Spring to align with government guidelines.
Manuela Moscoso curates the Stomach and the Port (20 March to 6 June). They will showcase the work of 50 leading and emerging artists and collectives from 30 countries worldwide, including 47 new commissions for the Liverpool Biennial. Exploring the body’s concepts, the Biennial draws on non-Western thinking that challenges our understanding of the individual as a defined, self-sufficient entity. Instead, the body i