The 2027 edition of the Liverpool Biennial, scheduled to open June 5 and continue through September 19, will feature 25 artists and collectives assembled in mind of a newly designated theme: “The Age of Magical Thinking.”

“The title draws on psychologist Jean Piaget’s identification of a particular period in childhood development when the lines between reality and make-believe are blurred,” reads a press release. “This is an age when the imagination is powerful; tomorrow is charged with potential and when magical thinking can help to create new, alternative worlds.”