Imayna Caceres
13th Liverpool Biennial, UK
7 June – 14 September 2025
The Liverpool Biennial was founded in 1998 and is the largest event for contemporary art in the United Kingdom. The 2025 edition will be dedicated to the notion of ‘bedrock’, in terms of both the city's physical and material geological formation, and as a metaphor for the strong civic values of Liverpool as well as the people and places that ground them. In collaboration with fellow artists and local organizations, Imayna Caceres will produce a new work using clay from the bed of the River Mersey which runs through the city and lead a series of workshops.
Imayna Caceres (born 1979) is a Peruvian artist, writer, and researcher who lives and works in Vienna. In their work, Caceres engages with their experience with modes of being in the worlds they are related to in Peru and Austria, particularly growing up in urban areas of the desertic central coast, inheriting practices from the oriental tropical Andes, and daily interactions to beings and phenomena of the Nordbahnhofgelände in Vienna.They are interested in the making of communities in more-than-human worlds and their work expands through collaboration with local ecosystems and in response to spiritual-political concerns.
They research focuses on border thinking, collectively organized political actions of the Latin American diaspora in Vienna, the teachings of plants and neighboring entities, and the arts and other vital practices as forms of producing knowledge that exceed scientific discourse. They resonate to forms of living that sustain life, that question systems of accumulation, and aim for social justice. Caceres is MA. in Fine Arts and MA. in Art Theory and Cultural Studies from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, as well as a graduate of Sociology from the PUCP University of Peru and of Communications Sciences from the University of Lima. They are a recipient of the Doctoral Fellowship Programme of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for their ongoing PhD dissertation in philosophy. They are part of the feminist ecopolitical collective Antikolonialer Interventionen in Vienna. Her work has been presented at La Virreina, Barcelona; Klima Biennale, Vienna; Rudolf-Scharpf-Galerie, Ludwigshafen and rotor Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Graz, among others.
This is Caceres’ first collaboration with Phileas.
