Liverpool Biennial

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The Liverpool Biennial is the UK's largest international festival of contemporary art.

The festival is a collaborative event delivered every two years in association with the region’s established visual arts organisations. These include Tate Liverpool, The Walker, Bluecoat Arts Centre, Open Eye Gallery and FACT centre, as well as a number of smaller galleries and independent venues.

Liverpool Biennial was established in 1998, and has presented three Biennial festivals to date - in 1999, 2002 and 2004 - with the fourth Liverpool Biennial beginning in September 2006. Each Biennial festival lasts for ten weeks.

In 2004, the festival caused controversy by exhibiting a work by Yoko Ono entitled "My mummy was beautiful". This was a series of full colour photographs of a woman's breast and crotch, which were exhibited throughout the city centre.

In 2006, there are five exhibition strands - International 06, International +, John Moores 24, the Independents and New Contemporaries. However, the official website fails to link to the Independent sector, something it has always done previously. In response, the Independents have established their own website, which contains listings for Independents.