Paris: The Exhibition of the Marcel Duchamp Prize will not take place at the Center Pompidou

The atmosphere was joyful and friendly at Artcurial this Thursday, January 9, January 9, date of the announcement of the names 2025 of the Marcel Duchamp Prize (with 90,000 euros). Claude Bonnin, President of ADIAF, association of French collectors who launched this prize in 2000, first recalled the operating mode: each year, a selection committee composed of eleven collectors spots “nominable” artists, by Thirty workshop visits and meetings, a non -exhaustive list is then sent to the members, who establish the names of potential candidates, before a second vote and a final deliberation. This year, the winning artists are Bianca Bondi, Xie Lei, Eva Nielsen and Lionel Sabated.

5 years at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris

« The Marcel Duchamp Prize is indeed the spine of our association, he recalls. It is also very engaging for the artists, who then integrate a form of club, a stakeholder in the events and exhibitions that we organize the rest of the year, especially abroad. For these 25 years, the price, exhibited at the Center Pompidou for 24 years, will finally take up its districts at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, given the closure of the Beaubourg site for renovation. Fabrice Hergott, director of MAM Paris, said he was ” Very impatient to discover works of high quality, surprising and strong ».

« The Marcel Duchamp Prize will better integrate French artists into our programming, fairly exploratory and open in its trends, he explains. I find it interesting to articulate it in relation to our spaces ». The exhibition of the winners of the Marcel Duchamp Prize will thus take place at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris during the next five editions (2025 to 2029). The first will be held from September 26 to February 22, 2026 with Commissioners Jean-Pierre Criqui, curator in the service of contemporary collections of the National Museum of Modern Art, and Julia Garimorth, Chef and Manager of Contemporary Collections at the Museum of Art modern of Paris.

The 4 winners of the Marcel Duchamp 2025 Prize

• Born in 1986 in Johannesburg, Bianca Bondi (represented by the Galerie Mor Charpentier) has lived for many years in France where she was noticed by paying attention to ecofeminism and has already been presented in several biennials. She works a lot with the memory of the places she redeployed in installations of various sizes.

The artist Bianca Bondi © DR

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• Xie Lei (represented by the Sémiose gallery) was born in China in 1983. He revisits classic painting techniques, to show canvases to unreal and timeless universes, in which he reveals sweet references to the history of art and discreet sensual touches.

The artist Xie Lei © Photo: Margot Montigny

• Born in 1983 in France, Eva Nielsen (represented by the Galeries Peter Kilchmann and The Pill) develops a painting that invites supports such as latex, leather, silk or screen printing and plunges his viewer into large utopian or dystopian landscapes … She also plays borders with the medium of photography.

L'Artiste Eva Nielssen, Courtesy Eva Nielsen et la Galerie Peter Kilchmann © dr

• When Lionel Sabated (represented by the Gallery Ceysson & Bébénière), born in 1975 in France, pleases to fit into the interstices between painting, drawing or sculpture. Passionate about experiments, he stages different materials exhilarating the traces of experience, such as dust, ashes or strains of trees, and wishes to evolve his copper powders, in a global theme on nature and the animal.

Lionel Sabatt, 2023, Courtesy Ceysson & Benefit © A. A. Doissy – CuiCui studios.

Strong various, as often, the courses and practices of these four plastic artists will give rise to fascinating debates, until October 23, 2025, the date of the announcement of the winner on the eve of Art Basel. From April 8 to August 24, 2025, the Ludwig Museum in Budapest presents an exhibition of fifteen artists appointed to Marcel Duchamp.
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