E' stato assegnato, al Centre Pompidou di Parigi, il premio annuale Marcel Duchamp, alla sua ventesima edizione, all'artista Kapwani Kiwanga.
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The Prix Marcel Duchamp was created in 2000 by Gilles Fuchs, Founder and President of Adiaf, with the aim of highlighting the abundance of creativity in the French art scene at the start of the 21st century and to support these artists internationally. Each year, this collectors’ prize chooses a winner from a shortlist of four French artists or artists living in France from of the visual arts (installation, video, painting, photography, sculpture, performance…). The prize highlights the most significant French artists of their generation, not unlike Duchamp himself, with the support of the Association Marcel Duchamp, and aims to encourage all new, artistically stimulating art forms. Each year, all of the members of the association are invited to participate in a voting process after which the four nominees are chosen by a committee of collectors. The artists are then invited by the national Museum of Modern Art to take part in a group show at the Pompidou Centre in tandem with the galleries that represent them and that participate in the production of the pieces. The winner is then chosen by an international jury of established contemporary art experts made up of distinguished curators and French and foreign collectors. Both Adiaf’s selection committee and the international jury change each year. Over 80 artists, both winners and nominees, have been recognised by the Prix Marcel Duchamp. It has become a veritable ambassador for French art over the years, as it constitutes a unique panorama of the vitality of the French contemporary art scene and provides a truly open overview.
