From Michael Nyman’s powerful performance of Symphony No.11: Hillsborough Memorial at Liverpool Cathedral and The Companion performance weekend, to international contemporary art presented across Liverpool’s spaces, places, and galleries, Liverpool Biennial 2014 transformed the city for 16 weeks. 

The 8th Biennial Exhibition A Needle Walks into a Haystack (5 July - 26 October 2014) was curated by Mai Abu ElDahab and Anthony Huberman. It included a group show at The Old Blind School, James McNeill Whistler at the Bluecoat, Sharon Lockhart at FACT, Claude Parent at Tate Liverpool and Jef Cornelis at St. Andrews Gardens. Also featured as part of Liverpool Biennial 2014 were the John Moores Painting Prize, Bloomberg New Contemporaries, a group show at Open Eye Gallery and Adrian Henri at LJMU's Exhibition Research Centre.