Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)

ADIAF created the Marcel Duchamp Award to shine a spotlight on France’s art scene. To celebrate its 20th anniversary, here’s a look back at this adventure and what it has accomplished.

Bertille Bak (1983), Bouchra Khalili (1975), Tarik Kiswanson (1986) and Massinissa Selmani (1980) are the four artists nominated for the 23rd edition of the prize - the most prestigious on the French contemporary art scene. Their projects will be exhibited at the Centre Pompidou on October 4.

France’s top art award has been presented to Mimosa Echard whose multidisciplinary practice combines the surreal, mechanical and terrestrial in pursuit of plant and human symbiosis. Echard has a research-led practice that draws on painting, ceramics and video games. The prize includes €35,000 ($41,000).

The 2020 edition of the prestigious prize awarded by the ADIAF distinguished the Franco-Canadian woman and her floral compositions, linked to the history of the independence of African countries. The artists Alice Anderson, Hicham Berrada and Enrique Ramírez were also in the running.

An exhibition showing the work of the four nominees for one of France’s most prestigious art awards – Julian Charrière, Isabelle Cornaro, Julien Creuzet and Lili Reynaud Dewar – opened yesterday at the Pompidou, in Paris. The winner of the prize will be chosen by a seven-person jury and announced in two weeks.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Centre Pompidou and the Marcel Duchamp Association launched a digital portal dedicated to the artist on January 24. For seven years, the three partner institutions have brought together their archives, thus covering the entire work and life of the inventor of ready-mades.

France’s most top art prize, worth €35,000, has revealed its four nominees: sculptors Julian Charrière, Isabello Cornaro and Julien Creuzet, and installation and performance artist Lili Reynaud-Dewar. Their works will be exhibited at the Centre Pompidou next month, with a winner being named on October 8.

Hailed as the first museum of modern art in the U.S., the Société Anonyme was founded by artists Katherine S. Dreier, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray. Its collection offers a unique record of modernist innovation and experimentation.

Like causes produce like effects. This idea was confirmed by the second Kahn Library sale, punctuated by almost surrealist surprises and preemptions.

The ADIAF announced live on Instagram the names of the four finalists for the 2022 edition of the Marcel Duchamp Prize. They are Mimosa Echard (born in 1986), Philippe Decrauzat (born in 1974), Giulia Andréani (born in 1985) and Ivan Argote (born in 1983), all artists "very oriented towards painting".