Liverpool is the only city in the UK to host a Biennial of contemporary visual art.
The event will bring together artists from around the world in a celebration of fresh, innovative and engaging practices in visual culture.

Liverpool Biennial 2002 is a 10-week festival from September 14th to November 24th, celebrating the world's most cutting edge contemporary visual art.

The only event of its kind in the UK, the 2002 programme will feature 250 artists exhibiting in galleries and public spaces throughout Liverpool. Highlights will include:

• The Queen Victoria Monument in Derby Square, which will be transformed into a temporary hotel, 'The Villa Victoria'
  
  
• In Williamson Square a giant screen will allow passers-by to shadow themselves against huge projected figures
  
  
• The top floor of St John's Market will become a dazzling gallery space for 60 artists
  
  
• Wolstenholme Square will become home to a new permanent sculpture of large coloured spheres called... Penelope!

  Around 250,000 people are expected to see a Biennial ''event'' which includes work by artists from every continent on the planet.

  Liverpool Biennial is founded on a unique model of partnership between Tate Liverpool, FACT, the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Bluecoat Arts Centre, National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside and New Contemporaries.

  Liverpool Biennial 2002 presents five programmes:
  
  

  • International 2002
  • John Moores Exhibition of Contemporary Painting
  • Independent 2002
  • Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2002
  • Events 2002

   

  Click on the above links to find out more!