Liverpool Biennial

Liverpool Biennial 2008
MADE UP
20 September - 30 November 2008
Curator: Lewis Biggs

Celebrating 10 years of commissioning ambitious and challenging new work by leading international artists, the fifth edition of Liverpool Biennial’s International exhibition was an exploration of the power of the artistic imagination.

MADE UP sees imagination as the dynamo of art. At the heart of this exhibition’s broad ranging exploration of ‘making things up’ (which includes utopias and dystopias, narrative fiction, fantasy, myths, lies, prophesies, subversion and spectacle) was the emotional charge which powers the artistic imagination.

Artists:

Weiwei Ai
David Altmejd
Atelier Bow Wow
Charles Avery
Michael Bell-Smith
Guy Ben-Ner
Manfredi Beninati
David Blandy
Stella Brennan
U-Ram Choe
Adam Cvijanovic
Nancy Davenport
Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Leandro Erlich
Omer Fast
Adrian Ghenie
Rachel Goodyear
Rodney Graham
Alison Jackson
Jesper Just
Otto Karvonen
Avish Khebrehzadeh
Yayoi Kusama
Luisa Lambri
Ulf Langheinrich
Gabriel Lester
Annette Messager
Tracey Moffatt
Muchen
Roman Ondak
Yoko Ono
Ged Quinn
Khalil Rabah
Lisa Reihana
The Royal Art Lodge
Tomas Saraceno
Sarah Sze
Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler
Richard Woods