Prix Marcel Duchamp 2025
Image: View of Xie Lei's installation for the exhibition of the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2025 at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole.
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Xie Lei
Prix Marcel Duchamp
Xie Lei is the winner of the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2025. He has lived and worked in Paris since 2006 and is represented by Semiose gallery (Paris). In the collective exhibition for the prize, held at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, the artist presents seven monumental canvases in shades of phosphorescent green, blurring the boundaries of reality and transforming gravity into a dreamlike experience. Xie Lei has perfected a style of painting that embraces ambiguity, in which the humans he depicts, whose features and gender are rarely identifiable, undeniably navigate between two worlds.
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’, which redefines the relationship between the artist, the artwork, and the audience. These participatory works encourage individual engagement, blur 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.
Grand Prix de l’Académie des beaux-arts
en architecture 2025
Image: Herzog & de Meuron, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, 2006-2016. © Iwan Baan
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Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron
Grand Prix de l’Académie des beaux-arts en architecture
The Grand Prix de l’Académie des beaux-arts en architecture was awarded to Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. After graduating, the duo founded Herzog & de Meuron in Basel in 1978, which quickly established itself as a major figure in contemporary architecture thanks to a singular approach centred on materiality and technical precision. Their work is characterised by a particularly rigorous and inventive use of building materials, notably concrete, stone, and wood. Their architecture is both rational and expressive, in dialogue with its urban and cultural context.
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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 collective imagery.
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Prix Sisley Beaux-Arts de Paris
pour la Jeune Création 2025
Image: Zoé Bernardi, L'ascenseur, 2023. © Zoé Bernardi
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Zoé Bernardi
Prix Sisley Beaux-Arts de Paris pour la Jeune Création
Zoé Bernardi is the winner of the Prix Sisley Beaux-Arts de Paris pour la Jeune Création 2025. Born in Paris in 2000, Zoé Bernardi works in photography and film. She graduated with honors from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2025. Her practice is concerned with questions of intimacy, coexistence and marginality. She has naturally turned her attention to her close community circle and to sexual, social, and gender minorities. Zoé Bernardi deliberately hesitates between the intimate and the social, tenderness and violence, monstrosity and poetry, care and plasticity.
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Grands Prix de la Création
de la Ville de Paris 2025
Image: Lucille Boitelle © Philippe Garcia – Maison Pierre Frey. Sacha Parent for OROS, Amas large shelf, natural stained oak, raw rye straw, © Pierre Girardin. Cèucle, 2025 Autumn edition.
CRAFTS | DESIGN | FASHION
Lucille Boitelle
Sacha Parent and Valentine Tiraboschi
Cèucle
Prix Révélation
At the Grands Prix de la Création de la Ville de Paris 2025, the Prix Révélation was presented in three categories – crafts, design, and fashion – acting as a talent spotlight, rewarding young talents whose projects are promising, creative and have prospects for development. Ornamental painter Lucille Boitelle won in the crafts category. Sacha Parent and Valentine Tiraboschi won in the design category. And the fashion brand Cèucle, founded by Auriane Blandin-Gall, was awarded in the fashion category.
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Prix Viviane Esders 2025
Image: Dörte Eißfeldt, Haut (Skin), 1989, gelatin silver print on baryt paper, 61 x 51 cm.
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Dörte Eißfeldt
Prix Viviane Esders
German photographer Dörte Eißfeldt is the winner of the Prix Viviane Esders 2025, dedicated to photographers aged 60 and over. Dörte Eißfeldt has been exploring the creative and conceptual potential of photography as art since the late 1970s. Eißfeldt presents excerpts from the visible world as we may have never considered them before: the human face or body, or the effects of light, shadow and time on the physical conditions of things. At the same time, the materiality of different papers, textures and printing techniques, as well as the display of the images on the wall or in a space, play a decisive role.
Prix Women In Motion 2025
Image: Nan Goldin, Stendhal Syndrome, 2024, still. Courtesy of the artist / Gagosian.
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Nan Goldin
Prix Women In Motion
American artist, Nan Goldin, has been awarded the Prix Women In Motion. Through her work, Nan Goldin has recast the representation of women outside patriarchal norms, but also of overlooked communities. Her intimate and raw portraits highlight issues like domestic violence, sexuality, and life on the fringes of society. Exhibited at Les Rencontres d'Arles, her work Stendhal Syndrome takes the form of a slide show juxtaposing images of classical, Renaissance, and Baroque masterpieces with portraits of Nan Goldin's friends and lovers. The structure of the work is inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses, depicting the artist's friends and family as mythological figures such as Galatea, Orpheus, and Hermaphrodite.
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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 de la 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 Jean-François Prat 2025
Image: Toby Ziegler, Blind men exploring the skin of an elephant, 2023. Oil and inkjet on canvas,
200 x 250 cm. Courtesy the artist and gallery Max Hetzler Berlin / Paris / Londres / Marfa.
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Toby Ziegler
Prix Jean-François Prat
Toby Ziegler is the winner of the Prix Jean-François Prat 2025. Born in London in 1972, he lives and works in London. Toby Ziegler gathers motifs from a wide variety of sources (photos, paintings, memory) and converts them by computer to generate new forms and new pictorial spaces. Erasing the distinction between figuration and abstraction, the artist slips between the virtual and the real. His paintings depict spaces in perspective, covered with diffuse, often squared-off shapes that suggest abstract volumes while structuring the surface.
About the Prix Jean-François Prat
Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour
l'Intelligence de la Main 2025
Image: Mille fleurs (2023) by Jean-Brieuc Chevalier. © Julie Limont
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Jean-Brieuc Chevalier
Talents d'exception
Jean-Brieuc Chevalier is the winner of the Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour l'Intelligence de la Main 2025 in the section Talents d'exception for his piece Mille fleurs. Jean-Brieuc Chevalier is a cabinetmaker who lives and works in Angers. His sumptuous medieval-inspired folding screen is a tribute to the Millefleurs tapestries housed in the castle of Villevêque, just outside Angers. All the delicacy and poetry of medieval tapestries can be found in his work – a profusion of flowers and plants, animals both real and imaginary. The iconography is served by a remarkable marquetry work, but also conceals a myriad of mother-of-pearl beads that transfigure the work, introducing exceptional interplays of matter, volume, and light.
About the Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour l'Intelligence de la Main
2025 ANDAM Fashion Awards
Image: Meryll Rogge, Fall 2025 Fashion Show.
FASHION
Meryll Rogge
Grand Prize
Meryll Rogge received the Grand Prize at the 2025 ANDAM Fashion Awards. A Belgian-born designer and ANDAM finalist last year, Meryll Rogge was the first woman to be named Designer of the Year at the 2024 Belgian Fashion Awards and was a finalist in the 2025 Woolmark Prize. Having shown her collections in Paris since 2021, she held her first fashion show in March, presenting a collection she deemed her "most developed pieces". These were among the designs she showed to the ANDAM jury, who was impressed by her compelling artistic vision, her bold experimentation with shapes and patterns, and her remarkable talent for creating pieces that are both statement-making and wearable.
