FACT Liverpool, the UK’s leading centre for art, film, and creative technology, announces its dynamic 2025 programme, featuring solo exhibitions, collaborative projects, and immersive experiences that push the boundaries of contemporary art and technology.
The programme is highlighted by extraordinary international co-commissions and locally embedded participatory projects that bring together artists from multiple disciplines and practices.
FACT Liverpool 2025 Exhibitions
Christopher Kulendran Thomas’ Safe Zone and Bahar Noorizadeh’s Free to Choose (21 February – 11 May 2025)
FACT presents two compelling solo exhibitions that explore the intersection of media, technology, and global politics: Christopher Kulendran Thomas‘ Safe Zone and Bahar Noorizadeh‘s Free to Choose.
Christopher Kulendran Thomas’s work explores the legacies of imperialism. A British artist of Sri Lankan Tamil descent, Kulendran Thomas has been using artificial intelligence technologies over the last decade to examine the foundational fictions of Western individualism.
His new exhibition, Safe Zone, features two bodies of work that metabolise the historical mediums of soft power: a series of paintings and a video work that auto-edits television footage. The exhibition at FACT marks the work’s UK premiere.
Bahar Noorizadeh is a UK-based artist, writer, and filmmaker whose work explores finance technology, and alternative futures, offering a critical perspective on capitalism and its global impact. Presented at FACT and in the UK for the first time, Noorizadeh showcase her film Free to Choose. This financial science-fiction opera delves into themes of travel and neoliberal economics through a story set in Hong Kong, spanning decades.
Art Plays Games Symposium (25 – 26 April 2025)
To mark the closing weekend of Art Plays Games, an exhibition dedicated to games made by artists, FACT hosts a two-day symposium to explore storytelling in games, featuring discussions on world-building, interactivity, avatar creation, and immersive design with artists, performers, game designers, and industry professionals.
Amartey Golding (22 May – 10 August 2025)
Amartey Golding‘s solo exhibition marks the culmination of FACT’s multi-year Resolution project, featuring a film and chainmail sculpture created in collaboration with imprisoned men from HMP Altcourse.
Liverpool Biennial 2025: BEDROCK (7 June – 14 September 2025)
FACT welcomes the return of Liverpool Biennial, the UK’s largest contemporary art festival, for its 13th edition, titled BEDROCK. The festival is inspired by Liverpool’s physical and social foundations and the people, places and values that ground us. Curated by Marie-Anne McQuay, works by 30 artists and collectives will be unveiled across the city from 7 June 2024, with FACT’s exhibiting artists to be announced in March
Studio/Lab Artist Members Group Exhibition (29 August – 17 November 2025)
Studio/Lab Exhibition will showcase works by artist members and residency artists, highlighting local talent and providing a unique opportunity to explore FACT’s vibrant creative community.
Bassam Issa Al-Sabah and Nina Davies (16 October 2025 – 22 February 2026)
FACT presents two powerful solo exhibitions: a new commission by Bassam Issa Al-Sabah and Nina Davies‘ collaborative project with participants from The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre’s Teenager and Young Adults Unit.
FACT’s 2025 programme continues to cement its position as a leader at the intersection of art, technology, society, and culture. It offers visitors unparalleled opportunities experience cutting-edge contemporary art in the heart of Liverpool.
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