Liverpool Biennial drop-in Mediator Tours offer the chance to explore our exhibitions at Tobacco Warehouse and Cotton Exchange in more depth. The free tours run weekly on Thursday and Saturdays and will last approximately half an hour, from 2:00pm-2:30pm.
Liverpool Biennial 2023’s festival hub, Tobacco Warehouse, is a Grade II listed building and the world’s largest brick-built warehouse, situated on Stanley Dock. Immersed within the building’s infamous history, the artists at Tobacco Warehouse explore themes of repair and healing in their work, tending to colonial wounds and offering opportunities for reclaiming identity, dignity and engaging with aliveness.
Liverpool’s former Cotton Exchange, opened in 1907, was integral to the city’s position as the world’s largest cotton market in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a period in the city’s history when economic prosperity depended upon enforced movement of people, enslavement, trade and labour. The artists at Cotton Exchange explore resistance, indigenous knowledge and ancestral healing.