Liverpool Biennial is best known as the promoter and organiser of the UK's international festival of contemporary art every second year. But we also have an ongoing role commissioning art for the public realm, such as Richard Wilson's Turning the Place Over and Antony Gormley's Another Place at Crosby Beach, and delivering our educational objectives through a programme of activities in partnership.

The fifth edition of Liverpool Biennial's International exhibition opens on 20th September 2008. Celebrating 10 years of commissioning ambitious and challenging new work by leading international artists, International 08 takes 'Made Up' as its theme, to explore the power of the artistic imagination.

MADE UP considers the act of 'making up' in its multiple guises, including utopias and dystopias, narrative fiction, fantasy, myths, lies, prophesies, subversion, spectacle, and the ambiguous territory between the real and unreal.