Sat 7 Jun - Sun 14 Sep
Liverpool Biennial returns from Sat 7 Jun – Sun 14 Sep 2025. Titled ‘BEDROCK', Liverpool Biennial 2025 is curated by Marie-Anne McQuay with Director Dr Samantha Lackey and the Liverpool Biennial Team.
‘BEDROCK’ draws on Liverpool’s distinctive geography and the beliefs which underpin the city. It is inspired by the sandstone which spans the city region and is found in its distinctive architecture. ‘BEDROCK’ also acts as a metaphor for the unique social foundations of Liverpool, haunted by empire, and the people, places and values that ground us.
Taking over historic buildings, unexpected spaces and art galleries, Liverpool Biennial - the UK’s largest free festival of contemporary visual art - has been transforming the city through art for over two decades. A dynamic programme of free exhibitions, performances, community and learning activities, and fringe events unfolds over 14 weeks, shining a light on the city’s vibrant cultural scene.
The artists at Bluecoat bring insights into the family, chosen family and cultural
heritage that they carry with them, and which grounds them.
Amy Claire Mills
Amy Claire Mills is a textile artist, curator, and producer. Mills presents an interactive, sensory installation, co-commissioned with Liverpool-based disability and Deaf arts organisation DaDa, supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation. The artist advocates for creating inclusive, adaptive ‘third spaces’ that prioritise disability representation, access and care. The artist will also create a collaborative performance with d/Deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent practitioners from the region.
Alice Rekab
Alice Rekab is an Irish artist currently based in Dublin. Their practice is concerned with expressions and iterations of complex cultural and personal narratives. Their work at Bluecoat will focus on intergenerational experiences of Irish, Black and multi-heritage family life.
Petros Moris
Petros Moris is an artist based in Athens, and will feature extracted ‘ready-made’ mosaics. He has a BFA from the Athens School of Fine Arts and an MFA from the Goldsmiths University of London and has presented solo exhibitions in galleries and art spaces internationally.
Amber Akaunu
Amber Akaunu is filmmaker working in cinema and art to document and imagine Black British regional stories. Her film, ‘Dear Othermother’, celebrates a deeply personal tale of friendship, single motherhood and alternative, matriarchal community networks in Toxteth, one of the oldest Black communities in the UK.
Odur Ronald
Odur Ronald is a multi-disciplinary visual artist. He will present his most ambitious installation to date, involving a vast collection of hand-stitched aluminium passports, to address the conditions of forced and voluntary migration of African people to Europe throughout history.
ChihChung Chang 張致中
ChihChung Chang 張致中 is a visual artist and cultural researcher based in Groningen, the Netherlands and Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He will restages his ‘Port of Fata Morgana’ installation. The work, centred around a model ship created by the artist’s father, explores family histories, alongside the history of naval architecture and the parallels between Liverpool and the port city of Kaohsiung.
