Artprice Congratulates Brognon Rollin Winners of the 2026 Marcel Duchamp Prize

Thought and Human Expertise on the Coronary heart of Creation

PARIS, Oct. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — A longstanding companion of the Marcel Duchamp Prize, Artprice by Artmarket congratulates the duo Brognon Rollin, whose award was introduced on Thursday, October 22, 2026, by Claude Bonnin, President of ADIAF, on the Musée d’Artwork Moderne de Paris. Via an set up constructed round sobriety tokens, David Brognon and Stéphanie Rollin give tangible type to the time spent in abstinence. Their work establishes a very direct reference to Marcel Duchamp’s conceptual legacy and locations human expertise on the coronary heart of creation.

The award comes throughout a Paris Artwork Week disrupted by the early closure of Artwork Basel Paris on Friday, October 23, at 7 p.m., forward of its public weekend, due to deliberate demonstrations and associated safety considerations. On the Musée d’Artwork Moderne de Paris, the Marcel Duchamp Prize ceremony stands as one of many week’s main occasions, opening a dialogue that may proceed lengthy after the honest. 

A Main Modern Artwork Prize Since 2000

Established in 2000 by ADIAF, the Affiliation pour la diffusion internationale de l’artwork français, and arranged in partnership with the Centre Pompidou from the outset, the Marcel Duchamp Prize promotes the French artwork scene internationally. Whereas the Centre Pompidou’s historic Beaubourg constructing undergoes renovation, the Musée d’Artwork Moderne de Paris is internet hosting the exhibitions of shortlisted artists and the announcement of the winner from 2025 via 2029.

With a complete endowment of €90,000, together with €35,000 awarded to the winner, the Prize acknowledges 4 artists or artist collectives every year. ADIAF extends this help via worldwide exhibitions and residencies, notably with Villa Albertine in america and the Manufacture de Sèvres. Previous winners embody Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Tatiana Trouvé, Clément Cogitore, Tarik Kiswanson, Gaëlle Choisne, and Xie Lei. Kader Attia, the 2016 winner, served on this yr’s jury, chaired by Xavier Rey, Director of the Musée nationwide d’artwork moderne. 

Making the Time of Abstinence Seen

David Brognon, born in Belgium in 1978, and Stéphanie Rollin, born in Luxembourg in 1980, met at Mudam and have labored collectively since 2006. Represented by the gallery mfc-michèle didier, they’ve developed a observe attentive to ready, confinement, and other people dwelling on the margins of society. Their works take form via encounters with particular person lives and circumstances.

Their set up, titled 5,376 Years, 1,892 Months, 1,110 Days, 1,201 Hours, provides collectively the durations inscribed on the sobriety tokens they’ve been accumulating since 2022. Awarded by help teams to mark milestones in abstinence, these objects bear witness to fragile victories and efforts sustained day after day.

Within the dimly lit house, 4 carnival machines maintain the tokens. Their mechanisms maintain them in a precarious steadiness: they by no means fall. Three wall lights are related to Kate, who has been sober for eight years and remotely adjusts their depth in response to what she is experiencing. The set up brings the rhythm of an precise human life into the exhibition.

Every token thus represents a interval of lived time. The potential for falling, the ready, and the perseverance turn out to be perceptible. The work opens a meditation on struggling, the trouble to carry on, and the vulnerability of existence, extending to the query of mortality. 

A Conceptual Work within the Custom of Marcel Duchamp

In an intimate and delicate dialog with thierry Ehrmann, Claude Bonnin, President of ADIAF, emphasised the connection between this work and Marcel Duchamp’s strategy, in addition to its two intertwined dimensions: absolutely conceptual and profoundly human.

The Marcel Duchamp Prize has at all times embraced a range of practices, from portray and sculpture to video and set up. With Brognon Rollin, the connection to the readymade is especially clear: preexisting objects, imbued with makes use of and histories, are relocated and introduced collectively in an association that transforms their that means. The thought that selects them and establishes relationships amongst them turns into constitutive of the work.

Marcel Duchamp, a foundational determine for conceptual artwork, profoundly reshaped the definition of the inventive act. With the readymade, selecting an object, designating it as artwork, and presenting it in a special context can represent an act of creation. The work’s that means then engages notion and thought as a lot as its materials fabrication.

Brognon Rollin brings a particular human depth to this shift. The token leaves its authentic use behind and carries the hint of an intimate wrestle into public house. The rigor of the set up makes palpable what a quantity alone can’t convey: the load of a day endured, the uncertainty of tomorrow, the willpower to proceed. Stéphanie Rollin sums up this strategy in a single sentence: “Our main materials is the human being.” 

From the Conceptual Act to the Pen Entrusted to AI

For Artprice, this version of the Marcel Duchamp Prize extends the dialogue into writing: how will we outline the act of creation when human thought offers that means to a type that has not been made fully by the creator’s personal hand?

This query runs via Dialogue Between a Thinker and AI, the world-book by thierry Ehrmann, founding father of Artprice and creator of La Demeure du Chaos. Over forty days and forty nights of dialogue, practically 4 hundred and fifty hours, he introduced his recollections, archives, reasoning, and contradictions into an trade with synthetic intelligence. Within the introductory textual content The Entrusted Pen, he describes his resolution to entrust the writing to AI whereas persevering with the work of considering, difficult, and correcting, and assuming duty for the content material.

The connection Artprice proposes considerations the function of intention, expertise, and that means within the inventive act. In Brognon Rollin’s work, the choice and association of objects make the traces of human lives accessible. Within the e-book, a spoken voice and private archives maintain a dialogue whose writing is entrusted to AI. In every case, the reader or customer is invited to look past the manufacturing course of and think about what’s being conveyed.

A token can rely the times of abstinence; it can’t, by itself, comprise all the trouble they required. Synthetic intelligence may give written type to the story of a life; it has not lived the existence from which that story emerges. This hole offers the query of transmission its full significance: how can deeply private expertise be made shareable?

Duchamp’s legacy permits us to pose this query with renewed readability. Creation can contain the choice, association, and articulation of thought. Within the age of AI, this reflection extends to the writer’s duty, the experiences the writer brings, and the that means for which the writer solutions.

Via its help for the Marcel Duchamp Prize, Artprice backs artists who renew our methods of seeing. With Dialogue Between a Thinker and AI, thierry Ehrmann gives readers an experiment that questions our methods of writing and passing on expertise. The encounter between these two approaches opens a shared house for reflection on the place of human beings in creation. 

An Version Centered on Human Expertise

Curated by Odile Burluraux and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, the exhibition additionally options Joël Andrianomearisoa, who explores the materiality of feelings via textiles, structure, and writing; Laura Henno, whose images and movies observe, amongst others, folks dwelling clandestinely within the Comoros and Mayotte; and Josèfa Ntjam, who combines archives, African mythologies, and science fiction to shift narratives of origin. 

Go to the Exhibition and Learn the Guide

The exhibition of the 4 artists shortlisted for the 2026 Marcel Duchamp Prize is on view on the Musée d’Artwork Moderne de Paris via February 7, 2027, as a part of its partnership with the Centre Pompidou and ADIAF. Admission is free.

Dialogue Between a Thinker and AI shall be accessible in full in French and English, free to learn on-line and obtain in its Uncooked Typescript model, below the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.

French model: https://www.dialoguebetweenathinkerandai.com/fr/
English model: https://www.dialoguebetweenathinkerandai.com/en/

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