Prix Marcel Duchamp 2024
Image: Detail of the installation by Gaëlle Choisne for the exhibition of nominees for the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2024, Centre Pompidou, Paris. © Centre Pompidou, Bertrand Prévost.
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Gaëlle Choisne
Prix Marcel Duchamp
French-Haitian artist Gaëlle Choisne has won the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2024. Choisne was born in 1985 in Cherbourg and now works in Paris. She is represented by Air de Paris, Romainville (Grand Paris). She was nominated for the prize alongside Abdelkader Benchamma, artist duo Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain, and Noémie Goudal. In the nominees' exhibition, Choisne presented her installation L'Ère du Verseau [The Age of Aquarius] (2024), which includes structures made of cork, large painted panels and video projections. She describes the work as "an island, an archipelago, a place where different realities accumulate to be reinvented and repaired".
Turner Prize 2024
Image: Installation view of Jasleen Kaur, Alter Altar at Tramway, Glasgow 2023. Courtesy of Tramway and Glasgow Life. Photo: Keith Hunter.
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Jasleen Kaur
Turner Prize
Jasleen Kaur received the Turner Prize 2024 for Alter Altar, her exhibition at Tramway in Glasgow. Kaur's work celebrates the Scottish Sikh community by transforming everyday objects into symbols of cultural memory and collective identity. Highlights include a red Ford Escort draped in a giant doily, automated worship bells, the quintessential Scottish soda, Irn-Bru and a self-playing accordion. The jury noted the considered way in which Kaur weaves together the personal, political and spiritual in her exhibition, choreographing a visual and aural experience that suggests both solidarity and joy.
Prix AWARE 2025
Image: Tsuneko Taniuchi, Micro-événement n° 14 / Future épouse aime faire la peinture, for Art & Vitrine, Rougier & Plé, Paris, 2002. Photo: Tiina Ketara, © ADAGP, Paris.
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Tsuneko Taniuchi
Prix d’honneur
AWARE : Archives of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions held its 9thannual contemporary art prize ceremony. Tsuneko Taniuchi has been awarded the Prix d’honneur, granted to an artist with a career spanning over 40 years. Born in 1946 in Hyogo, Japan, Tsuneko Taniuchi has lived and worked in Paris since 1987. In 1995, she developed the concept of ‘Micro-events’ a concept that redefines the relationship between the artist, the artwork and the audience. These participatory works encourage individual engagement, blurring the boundaries between art and reality while questioning social and gender norms. By creating intimate experiences, she subverts codes to disrupt traditions and question the multiplicity of identities.
Image: Gabrielle Manglou, BAGATELLES, Astèr Atèrla, 2023-2024. Détail. Leather, paper, fabric, cardboard... Produced by FRAC Réunion + CCCOD Tours + La Friche de La Belle de Mai / La Friche de La Belle de Mai Marseille. © jcLett
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Gabrielle Manglou
Prix Nouveau Regard
Gabrielle Manglou has been awarded the Prix Nouveau Regard, granted to a mid-career artist. Gabrielle Manglou is a multidisciplinary artist, primarily working in the field of installation. Originally from La Réunion, she currently lives in Locmiquélic, Brittany. Her work explores themes such as human relationships, collective histories and material remnants. In her installations of all shapes and colours, Gabrielle Manglou traces paths based on what she has encountered along the way. They are paved with clues that tell us as much about where she comes from as where she wants to go, to take us and perhaps lose us.
Prix Reiffers Art Initiatives 2025
Image: Exhibition view, Anhar Salem, 1000 milliards d’images, Reiffers Art Center, Paris.
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Anhar Salem
Prix Reiffers Art Initiatives
Entitled 1000 milliards d'images, the group exhibition for the 4th edition of the Prix Reiffers Art Initiatives was curated by Thibaut Wychowanok and brought together Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel, Anhar Salem, Jean-Vincent Simonet and Nanténé Traoré. Born in 1993 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Anhar Salem won this year's prize. Her work draws on her personal experience of social networks and the flow of images available on the net to explore issues such as self-representation and the virtual extension of our lives on networks. For her, reality and the digital world merge to form a single hybrid universe. She is also interested in the ways in which we socialise on networks, as well as the images that circulate on them, informing us and conditioning our perception and our collective imagery.
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Grand Prix de l’Académie des beaux-arts
en sculpture 2025
Image: Pascale Marthine Tayou, Survival Tree, 2018, wood, crystal, alabaster, cloths, 3 x 3 x 3,5 m. Courtesy the artist and GALLERIA CONTINUA. © ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Hafid Lhachmi
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Pascale Marthine Tayou
Grand Prix de l’Académie des beaux-arts en sculpture
The Grand Prix de l’Académie des beaux-arts en sculpture was awarded to Pascale Marthine Tayou. Born in Nkongsamba, Cameroon, in 1966, he lives and works between Belgium and Cameroon. A self-taught artist and tireless traveller, Pascale Marthine Tayou is a sculptor of identities in motion. His seemingly lightweight creations explore the tensions between the individual and the collective, between ancestral memory and contemporary change. Deeply humanist, his work aims to bring human beings together beyond their differences, portraying the image of man on the move across the world and exploring the question of the global village. It is in this context that he addresses his African origins and the questions they raise.
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Prix de dessin Fondation d’art contemporain
Daniel & Florence Guerlain 2025
Image: Alice Maher, Pythia, 2025, charcoal and chalk on paper, 152 x 102 cm. Courtesy Purdy Hicks Gallery.
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Alice Maher
Prix de dessin Fondation d’art contemporain
Daniel & Florence Guerlain
Irish artist Alice Maher is the winner of the Prix de dessin de la Fondation d’art contemporain Daniel & Florence Guerlain 2025. Using a variety of mediums, of which drawing remains the core, Alice Maher delves into ancestral stories, myths and the unconscious. She tries to understand who we are and where we come from. She affirms the place of the feminist body, in symbiosis with the animal and plant world. Alice Maher often creates her drawings dynamically, to best accompany her thought process. "It's not just a question of accessing the subconscious, but of giving it permission, as it were, to put itself into action," she comments.
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Prix ellipse 2025
Image: Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku, Where Do We Go from Here?, How to Heal a Broken World, 2025, 11 x 1,2 m, installation using second-hand clothing.
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Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku
Prix ellipse
The 5th edition of the Prix ellipse focused on Ghana's emerging art scene, around the theme of the ‘Butterfly Effect’. This year's winner is multidisciplinary artist Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku. Born in 1994 in Accra, Ghana, he repurposes discarded textiles to create original works combining sculpture and canvas. Using dyeing and assembly techniques, he transforms used clothing into silent witnesses of past lives, questioning identity, over-consumption and colonial heritage. At the crossroads of history and sustainability, Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku's work reflects on industrialization and climate change.
Bennett Prize
Image: Amy Werntz, Carlyla, oil on panel, 2024, 24 x 18 in. Courtesy of The Bennett Prize.
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Amy Werntz
Bennett Prize
Dallas-based Amy Werntz is the winner of the 4th Bennett Prize. Her paintings reveal an obsession with time and the everyday moments and experiences that define most of our lives. The artist focuses on an older generation of people, and how their posture, clothing and bodies reveal the stories of their lives. In depicting elder subjects, she hopes to counteract the ways in which "society has become so focused on youth as the representation of beauty and seems to have lost the reverence for age and experience," and to challenge the viewer to confront fears of aging and an impulse to overlook our seniors as a result.
