The Prix Marcel Duchamp, France’s most esteemed art prize, has named the artists nominated for its 2026 award. While there are normally four nominees, this year there are technically five.
Those nominees include Joël Andrianomearisoa, a Malagasy artist whose vibrant textiles have been exhibited widely, and Josèfa Ntjam, a participant in last year’s Bienal de São Paulo whose installations and sculptures address fluid identities, often by making reference to the African diaspora.
Also nominated this year are Laura Henno and the duo David Brognon and Stéphanie Rollin. They will compete for a chance to win €35,000, or just over $40,000, and will show together at the Musée d’Arte Moderne de Paris in October. (Typically, the nominees’ show takes place at the Centre Pompidou, though that museum is currently closed for several years while it undergoes renovations.)
The winner, who will be revealed following the show’s opening, will join vaunted company that includes Laurent Grasso, Tatiana Trouvé, Kapwani Kiwanga, Tarik Kiswanson, and a range of other famous figures who have taken the prize in years past.
Set to jury the prize this year is a panel of curators led by Xavier Rey, director of the Centre Pompidou. Also on that jury are Claude Bonnin, director of Adiaf, the organization that facilitates the prize; Akemi Shiraha, of the Association Marcel Duchamp; Fabrice Hergott, director of the Musée d’Art Moderne; collectors Fernando Arriola and Marie-Cécile Zinsou; artists Kader Attia (who himself won the Prix Marcel Duchamp in 2016) and Berlinde de Bruyckere; Karin Hindsbo, director of the Tate Modern; and Christophe Leribault, president of the Château de Versailles.
