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. The Prix Marcel Duchamp 2024 exhibition is on now through 6 January 2025 at Centre Pompidou in Paris. Choisne presents 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".
Prix AWARE 2024
Image: Mystère I : Hermaphrodite endormi/e, space view, 12th Paris Biennale, Musée d’art Moderne, 1982.
© Klonaris/Thomadaki
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Katerina Thomadaki (for her work with Maria Klonaris)
Prix d’honneur
Katerina Thomadaki is the winner of the Prix d’honneur 2024 for her work with Maria Klonaris. The award was created in 2016 to highlight the longevity and quality of the careers of women artists. Katerina Thomadaki and Maria Klonaris, an artistic duo from Athens, Greece, lived and worked in France from 1975. Together, they developed an experimental body of work at the crossroads of art, theatre, film and aesthetic theory. Their oeuvre, free from the shackles of style or conventional discourse, redefined gender and its representation through the concept of ‘corporal cinema’.
Prix Fondation Pernod Ricard 2024
Image: Exhibition views, All the Messages Are Emotional, Fondation Pernod Ricard, 2024. © Aurélien Mole
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Prix Fondation Pernod Ricard
For the first time in its history, the Prix Fondation Pernod Ricard was awarded collectively to all seven artists nominated by curator Arlène Berceliot Courtin. Their works were on show in the group exhibition All the Messages Are Emotional at the Fondation Pernod Ricard in Paris. The seven winning artists are: Clémentine Adou, Madison Bycroft, HaYoung, Charlotte Houette, Lenio Kaklea, Paul Maheke and Mona Varichon. They all share a multidisciplinary approach and a particular attraction to movement.
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Prix Reiffers Art Initiatives 2024
Image: Exhibition view (RE)GENERATION, 2024.
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Clédia Fourniau
Prix Reiffers Art Initiatives
For its third edition, Reiffers Art Initiatives decided to reward the work of artist Clédia Fourniau. Born in 1992, the artist was in the running alongside Majd Abdel Hamid, Alex Ayed, Garance Früh and Aïcha Snoussi, whose works were presented as part of the group exhibition (RE)GENERATION, curated by Vittoria Matarrese. "This prize is an immense honor and will enable my work to be seen. In a period when abstract painting is less visible, and as a young woman who approaches the painting in a very physical relationship, I’m particularly happy that it’s this type of painting that is being rewarded," declared Clédia Fourniau.
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Prix Jean-François Prat 2024
Image: Christine Safa, Nathan au Marais (Septembre), 2022. Oil on canvas, 135 x 146 cm.
Courtesy of the artist and Lelong & Co (Paris, NY)
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Christine Safa
Prix Jean-François Prat
Christine Safa is the winner of the Prix Jean-François Prat 2024. Born in France in 1994, she lives and works in Paris. Christine Safa focuses on moments and places charged with emotion and recalled by memory. Faces mingle with mountains, silhouettes appear from the horizons, figures settle into the landscape, reduced to the essential, they become a vibrant layer of paint. Favoring a warm palette that recognizes its Mediterranean origins, the work is interested in what remains present, simply but fully.
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Prix Sisley Beaux-Arts de Paris 2024
Image: Nina Jayasuriya, Les caresses qui piquent, 2023. © Aurélien Mole
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Nina Jayasuriya
Prix Sisley Beaux-Arts de Paris
Nina Jayasuriya, who graduated with honours from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2023, is the winner of the Prix Sisley Beaux-Arts de Paris pour la Jeune Création 2024. Born in 1996 in Paris, Nina Jayasuriya lives and works between Paris and Sri Lanka. Her artistic practice engages in a reflection on the use of everyday objects, the exploitation of sacrality and the reappropriation of heritage. Using oil painting as well as tattooing and sculpture, she creates environments and personal myths conducive to meditation and contemplation.
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Thinking Sustainability Photography Prize
Image: © Ana Elisa Sotelo & Sadith Silvano, Portraits of the Multiverse series.
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Ana Elisa Sotelo
Thinking Sustainability Photography Prize
Ana Elisa Sotelo has been awarded the first edition of the Fondation Louis Roederer's Thinking Sustainability Photography Prize, for her work on nature and human interaction with the natural world. Following a life-altering spinal fracture in 2016, the artist discovered the healing power of traditional Amazonian medicine and documented the links between natural and spiritual health. Her winning series, Portraits of the Multiverse, features an interplay between photography and embroidery. Ana Elisa Sotelo collaborated with Peruvian artisan Sadith Silvano to create a dialogue between the worlds of the visible and the invisible, underlining the profound link between the Amazon, its inhabitants and their ancestral art.
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Prix de dessin Fondation d’art contemporain
Daniel & Florence Guerlain 2024
Image: Amir Nave, Untitled, 2018. Pencil and oil on paper, 35 x 47.5 cm. Courtesy IN SITU – Fabienne Leclerc. Photo: Marc Domage. Collection Florence et Daniel Guerlain
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Amir Nave
Prix de dessin de la Fondation d’art contemporain
Daniel & Florence Guerlain
Amir Nave is the winner of the Prix de dessin de la Fondation d’art contemporain Daniel & Florence Guerlain 2024. Amir Nave works in an obsessive, spiritual, even almost mystical way, on the human being, seen in an infinite temporality. The artist constantly asks himself who we are and where we are going. By following the movements of Amir Nave's figures, or ‘creatures’, the spectator embraces a part of human passions. First interested in landscapes and insects, seeking parallels between our species and theirs, the forms then evolved into ‘creatures’, calling as much on the most buried pasts as on possible futures.
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Prix Women In Motion 2024
Image: Ishiuchi Miyako, Mother’s #35, Mother’s series. Courtesy of the artist / The Third Gallery Aya
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Ishiuchi Miyako
Prix Women In Motion
Japanese photographer Ishiuchi Miyako was awarded the Prix Women In Motion 2024. The theme of the representation of women permeates Miyako's work in a subtle and powerful way. Her photographs celebrate imperfections, scars and ageing. By presenting intimate scenes, Ishiuchi Miyako invites viewers to question their own perceptions of femininity, the feminine and the place of women. Among her most notable works are her 2005 series Mother's, in which she photographed objects inherited from her deceased mother and her internationally acclaimed 2007 series ひろしま/hiroshima, in which she photographed objects that belonged to victims of the atomic bomb (hibakusha).
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Le FRENCH DESIGN 100
Image: Clémentine Chambon, Elliptic Limited Edition, Italy, Bonacina 1889 x Doppia Firma. Photo: Laila Pozzo
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Le FRENCH DESIGN 100
Le FRENCH DESIGN 100 was awarded to the 100 best French design and interior architecture projects worldwide. For this 3rd edition, the jury was chaired by Laurent Le Bon, President of the Centre Pompidou, with Hervé Lemoine, President of the Mobilier national, as Honorary Chairman. The award-winning projects are the result of collaboration between exceptional designers and interior architects and internationally renowned craftspeople and manufacturers: cabinetmakers and upholsterers, gilders and fitters, furniture and object makers, woodworkers and metalworkers. This association is emblematic of the French art of living and helps to perpetually enrich the heritage and expertise of French design.
