The appointment of the curator for the third Folkestone Triennial in 2014 has been announced.

The Creative Foundation’s new Chief Executive, Alastair Upton, has announced that Lewis Biggs, who is currently a Visiting Professor in Contemporary Art at Liverpool John Moores and Shanghai Universities, and an Honorary Professor at Glasgow University is the curator for the 2014 Folkestone Triennial.

He is also curator for the 2013 Aichi Triennale in Nagoya, Japan.

In July 2011, Director and Chief Executive, Lewis Biggs left the Liverpool Biennial after an outstandingly successful 10 years in the post.

The ten week Biennial Festival became one of the most exciting and best attended arts events in the country and was internationally recognised as ‘the UK’s Biennial’, with the 2010 Festival attracting nearly one million visits by over 500,000 visitors.

Lewis Biggs was Director of Tate Liverpool 1990-2000, and has been commissioning art for public spaces in a regeneration context since co-curating ‘Artranspennine’ with Robert Hopper in 1998.

For Liverpool Biennial, he brought Anthony Gormley’s Another Place to Crosby Beach in 2005, and in 2007 commissioned Turning the Place Over, from Folkestone Triennial 2008 artist Richard Wilson. These and other initiatives contributed to Liverpool’s programme as European Capital of Culture 2008.

Mr Upton said “We are delighted to welcome Lewis to the Folkestone Triennial. He brings with him a wealth of experience and his enthusiasm for community engagement in place-making without compromising artistic integrity will be an exciting new direction for the Triennial.”

Lewis Biggs was made an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours.

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