Liverpool Biennial will take place from March 20 to June 6, 2021 after being postponed from this year due to the coronavirus lockdown.
The UK's largest contemporary art festival should have opened this weekend but had to be moved once it became clear large scale public events would be unable to go ahead this summer.
The theme of The Stomach and the Port, curatorial framework and list of participating artists remain the same.
The Independents Biennial, a programme of events run by local artists, has also announced it will open for the same dates.
Meanwhile, the Walker Art Gallery this morning revealed its John Moores Painting Prize exhibition, which usually runs at the same time as the Biennial, will open in February 2021. Tate Liverpool has also announced its 2021 programme, which includes a Biennial show.
Fatos Üstek, Liverpool Biennial director, said: "In the course of the past year, we have collectively experienced seismic societal changes. The world has had to adapt to living, working and grieving through a pandemic
"Lives and livelihoods have been impacted, in some cases permanently, and a world-wide recession is expected. Most recently in light of the largest racial justice movement of our lifetimes, we have been engaged with the urgent necessity to create equal, diverse and inclusive societies. These collective issues resonate strongly with our edition The Stomach and the Port, curated by Manuela Moscoso.
"At Liverpool Biennial, we have paused our public facing programme during the last few months, in order to reflect on and respond to the global transformation that we are going through. We are committed to delivering the 11th edition, in ways that are safe for our artists, partners, supporters and our audiences."
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The Independents Biennial is reliant on still unconfirmed funding sources to go ahead.
A statement released today said: "It is still uncertain how the programme will be funded, as funding was put on hold when Arts Council England announced they were moving all unassigned project grants into their COVID-19 Emergency Fund. While we don’t know how the programme will be funded, we do know that it will look very different to what we had initially proposed."
However, it also revealed the organisation will be working with a steering group of local artists and producers, paying artists for their time, not for their output.
The fringe festival will be "actively taking part in conversations instigated by artists and audiences on everything from barriers to access for working class artists, D/Deaf and Disabled artists, Black artists and artists from other minority backgrounds, to the fundamental structures of creative education, and how language shapes our understanding of visual art".
