Join us for Liverpool Biennial, the UK’s largest contemporary visual arts festival which takes place across Liverpool’s public spaces, galleries and museums. Visitors to the city can enjoy a dynamic programme of free exhibitions, performances, screenings, community and learning activities and fringe events over a 14 week period that shine a light on our city’s vibrant cultural scene.
The 12th edition of the Biennial is titled uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things and addresses the history and temperament of the city of Liverpool and is a call for ancestral and indigenous forms of knowledge, wisdom and healing. In the isiZulu language, uMoya means spirit, breath, air, climate and wind.
The artists on display at Tate Liverpool explore the space between life and death and how to work through ancestral pain towards healing. Highlights include Isabel do Rosário’s largescale textile pieces, exhibited for the first time outside of Brazil, the first showing of Edgar Calel’s Ru k’ ox k’ob’el jun ojer etemab’el (The Echo of an Ancient Form of Knowledge) 2021 and Torkwase Dyson’s monumental Liquid A Place 2021 which directly converses with the brutal histories of the water and docks which surround the gallery.
The display also includes work by Fátima Rodrigo Gonzales, Francis Offman, Gala Porras-Kim, Guadalupe Maravilla, Lubaina Himid, Nolan Oswald Dennis, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, and Shannon Alonzo.
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum Sinner Get Ready 2022, Galerie Lelong, NY. Photo Credit Galerie Lelong NY
Francis Offman Untitled 2021-2022. Courtesy the artist; Herald St, London; andP420, Bologna. Photo by Carlo Favero
Isa do Rosário. Liverpool Biennial 2023 at Tate Liverpool. Courtesy of Liverpool Biennial. Photography by Mark McNulty
Tate Liverpool is located on the Royal Albert Dock Liverpool. There is level access to the gallery through the main revolving doors and two side doors.
There are lifts to all floors of the gallery, or alternatively you can take the stairs.
- Toilets are located in the basement and on the first and second floors.
- A Changing Places toilet is located in the ground floor foyer.
- Ear defenders can be borrowed from the front desk.
Additional seating is also available. Please ask a member of staff, if you require assistance.
To help plan your visit to Tate Liverpool, have a look at our visual story. It includes photographs and information of what you can expect from a visit to the gallery.
