Prix Marcel Duchamp 2026
Nominated Artists
Image: Things and something to remember before daylight (ACT IV . ACT V . ACT VI), 2024. Exhibition view, Joël Andrianomearisoa – Tools of Emotions and Desires, Ludwig Museum Koblenz, 30.11.2025 – 15.02.2026. Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech Gallery.
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Joël Andrianomearisoa
Nominated for the prix Marcel Duchamp
Malagasy artist Joël Andrianomearisoa, born in 1977 in Antananarivo, Madagascar, lives and works between Paris and Magnat-l’Étrange in France, and Antananarivo in Madagascar. In 2003, he received a degree in architecture from the École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris. Joël Andrianomearisoa works multidisciplinarily, expressing himself through various media and materials. He aims to give form to abstract, inexplicit narratives and feelings. From sculpture to installation, from crafts to writing, from textiles to architecture, he pursues a pluralistic approach inspired by his Malagasy roots, but also by the world and its diverse geographies.
Image: Brognon Rollin, 24 H Silence, (157 – 282 min / 1440 min), 2020. Photo: Leslie Artamonow.
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David Brognon and Stéphanie Rollin
Nominated for the prix Marcel Duchamp
David Brognon and Stéphanie Rollin live and work in Paris and Luxembourg. The two artists began collaborating in 2006, after meeting at the Mudam Luxembourg. Together, they have developed a unique body of work (installations, sculptures, videos, performances, photos), in which humans are the main material and encounters are the driving force. Drawing on real and often complex situations, they give substance to the experience of time, duration, and waiting, in direct connection with the materiality of a territory and its limits — particularly in the context of situations of confinement. Focusing on the margins rather than the center, the artists are interested in the blurred interstices where society confines those it marginalizes or renders invisible.
Image: Laura Henno, Barbarella, Slab city (USA), 2024, Outremonde series. © Laura Henno
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Laura Henno
Nominated for the prix Marcel Duchamp
Born in 1976 in Croix, photographer and filmmaker Laura Henno has built a resolutely political body of work, in which each project highlights parallel realities, often marked by displacement or migration. Through films and photographs, she explores the geopolitics of the Comoros archipelago, tracing the complexity of migration in this area of the Indian Ocean. She is particularly interested in the clandestine lives that have formed in the invisible interstices of Mayotte since its separation from the rest of the archipelago. Favoring an immersive approach within the communities she follows for several years, the artist builds strong relationships with her subjects.
Image: swell of spæc(i)es, 2024. Installation view, Collateral Event of the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, 2024. Photo: Andrea Rossetti. Commissioned by the LAS Art Foundation. Courtesy of LAS Art Foundation. © Josèfa Ntjam / ADAGP, Paris / CARCC, Ottawa, 2025.
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Josèfa Ntjam
Nominated for the prix Marcel Duchamp
Born in 1992 in Metz, Josèfa Ntjam is an artist, performer, and writer whose practice combines sculpture, photomontage, film, and sound. Drawing raw material for her work from the internet, natural science books, and photographic archives, Ntjam uses the method of assemblage — of images, words, sounds, and stories — to deconstruct hegemonic discourses on notions of origin and identity. Her work weaves together multiple narratives drawn from investigations into historical events or scientific discoveries, which she juxtaposes with references to African mythology and science fiction.
About the Prix Marcel Duchamp Nominated Artists
Prix Photographie & Sciences 2025
Image: © Jordan Beal, Deliciosa, 2025
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Jordan Beal
Prix Photographie & Sciences
The Prix Photographie & Sciences 2025 has been awarded to Jordan Beal for his series Deliciosa. Supported by Villa Pérochon, this prize is intended for a photographer from the French scene to enable them to complete a project combining photography and science. An exhibition of the winning project will take place at Villa Pérochon (Niort) in the fall of 2026 as part of the Fête de la Science.
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2026 Ruth Awards
Image: Installation view, Yuji Agematsu: 2023-2024, May 10 to August 30, 2025, 101 Spring Street, Judd Foundation, New York. Photo: Timothy Doyon. Courtesy of Judd Foundation. © Yuji Agematsu
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Yuji Agematsu
Ranu Mukherjee
Will Rawls
Ellen Sebastian Chang
Anna Martine Whitehead
Ruth Award
The Milwaukee-based Ruth Foundation for the Arts has named the five artists who have won its 2026 Ruth Awards. Yuji Agematsu is best known for his miniscule sculptures, made from detritus found on the streets of New York. Ranu Mukherjee makes hybrid work in painting, film installation and performance, marked by colliding tempos, saturated color and sensual materiality. Will Rawls is a multidisciplinary choreographer working with dance, language, and other media to investigate the poetics of embodiment and the materiality of time. Ellen Sebastian Chang is a director, dramaturge, writer, and arts educator with a career spanning 50 years dedicated to advocating for human rights through the creative arts. Anna Martine Whitehead does performance and things from the homeland of the Council of the Three Fires, also known as Chicago.
Prix de Rome Visual Arts 2025
Image: Kevin Osepa, Lusgarda, 2025. Mixed media installation with video. Courtesy of the artist.
Photo: Peter Tijhuis.
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Kevin Osepa
Prix de Rome Visual Arts
Visual artist and filmmaker, Kevin Osepa, has won the Prix de Rome Visual Arts 2025, an incentive award for artists who offer new insights into the visual arts in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Osepa won the award for his new work Lusgarda, a total installation that he created especially for the award. Lusgarda highlights the disappearing ritual of Ocho Dia, the eight-day mourning period after a funeral on his native island of Curaçao. A work that "overwhelms and moves," according to the jury. "Lusgarda is a vibrant work that elevates both the recognizable and the concealed to a higher poetic level."
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2025 Foundwork Artist Prize
Image: Antonia Kuo, Water Lilies, 2024. Unique photochemical paintings on silver gelatin paper, silver gelatin prints, powder coated aluminum, patinated cast bronze and ceramic relief in aluminum frame (9 panels), 54 x 82.5 x 4 in.
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Antonia Kuo
Foundwork Artist Prize
New York-based interdisciplinary artist Antonia Kuo has been awarded the 2025 Foundwork Artist Prize. Kuo’s practice centers around recording, translation, and the potential of the photographic medium. She is interested in how images and materials are alchemically transformed through technology and the hand, and how seemingly unquantifiable sources like light can be converted and shaped into image. Working with transmutative materials and processes, she is able to collaborate with active modes of becoming, chance operations, and the unknown.
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Les femmes s’exposent 2026
Image: Chine, l’usine du monde © Véronique de Viguerie
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Véronique de Viguerie
Bourse Climat
Intended to fund a project on climate change, the Bourse Climat has been awarded to Véronique de Viguerie for her project Le Mirage Vert [The Green Mirage], carried out in the United Arab Emirates. The project explores the climatic contradictions of the United Arab Emirates, a desert territory where futuristic ecological ambitions coexist with massive dependence on fossil fuels. Halfway between documentary and visual satire, Le Mirage Vert questions the headlong rush toward technology, the illusion of sustainability, and ecological staging. By capturing the contrast between air-conditioned modernity and the desert environment, the project seeks to make us reflect on our own ecological mirages, far beyond the Emirates.
Image: Théorie de l’horizon incliné [Theory of the slanted horizon] © Anne-Lou Buzot
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Anne-Lou Buzot
Résidence Houlgate
Dedicated to the completion of a residency in Houlgate, the creative grant was awarded to Anne-Lou Buzot for her project Théorie de l’horizon incliné [Theory of the slanted horizon]. Photography was born in the 19th century, and very quickly impressed people with its ability to faithfully reproduce reality, so much so that it was readily accepted as evidence. However, in photographs taken at the seaside, the horizon appears slanted... This raised a question among scholars: was the horizon really slanted? This was the starting point for an incongruous story that only photography could tell... A story that Anne-Lou Buzot gradually pieced together thanks to the discovery of previously unseen archive fragments.
