ARTISTS whose work challenges the traditional concept of art will be featured in Tate Liverpool’s Biennial exhibition.

Conceived as a “sculptural happening”, the gallery’s show will feature on-going live interventions and appearances by artists, performing objects, as well as installations and sculptures.

This year’s Biennial theme is Touched, which Tate is interpreting as “the kind of proximity, action and physical contact you would not expect to encounter in a museum or art gallery”.

Since the emergence of challenging artistic strategies in the 1960s, international artists have questioned the idea that visual art should be static, sanctified, and presented on a wall or plinth to be viewed from a distance.

Curated by Peter Gorschlüter, Tate’s exhibition explores the ways in which contemporary artists continue to respond to these ideas.

Featured artists include Magdalena Abakanowicz, Otto Muehl, and Franz West, who, in the 60s and 70s, pioneered practices that explored ways life could be unified with our experience of art. The exhibition will also include the work of a younger generation of artists, reflecting on the same theme.

For the first time, admission to Tate Liverpool’s Biennial show is free of charge. It runs from September 18 to November 28.