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ADIAF have celebrated the 20th anniversary of the MARCEL DUCHAMP PRIZE!

To mark the occasion, a flagship programme has been designed to showcase the French scene and the artists who have received the Prize over the last twenty years.

The programme will be divided into four parts :

•  In Paris, at the Centre Pompidou : a journey exploring the 20 laureates in the permanent collections of the Musée National d’Art Moderne. (Autumn 2020)

• Regionally : Marcel Duchamp Prize exhibitions organised in several FRACs in partnership with Platform. (2021)

• Internationally : Marcel Duchamp Prize exhibitions in several countries (2021)

• Publication in 2021 of a book on the story of the Prize by Flammarion.

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Everyone knows that the health crisis is severely affecting the visual arts and especially visual artists. Faced with this critical situation, the Association for the International Dissemination of French Art has decided to forge ahead and further bolster its support for a French scene that it has always championed with conviction.

“The 20th anniversary of the Marcel Duchamp Prize will provide an opportunity to launch an ambitious programme of exhibitions, in Paris and regionally, which will take on a new dimension, since it will above all be a question of supporting a weakened French scene by highlighting the 80 artists who have received the prize since its creation,” says Gilles Fuchs, President of ADIAF.

On an exceptional basis this year, ADIAF has decided to increase its support to artists and their galleries by a third for the design of the 2020 Marcel Duchamp Prize exhibition at the Centre Pompidou. ADIAF’s contribution will thus amount to €40,000, i.e. €10,000 per artist instead of the €7,500 initially planned.

Les artistes

Kapwani KIWANGA

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“What a long way we’ve come in the last twenty years when ADIAF decided to take action for the French scene! Today, the Marcel Duchamp Prize embodies an open and diverse mindset which is perfectly illustrated by the laureate of this 20th Prize.” 

Gilles Fuchs, President of ADIAF

“The wealth and complexity of Kapwani Kiwanga’s project, situated somewhere between anthropology and art, opens up a vast poetic and political programme, a genuine laboratory of today’s thinking on memory and archiving as sources for the transfiguration of the world.”

Bernard Blistène, Director of Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou

– Born in 1978 in Hamilton, Canada, Kapwani Kiwanga lives and works in Paris.

– She is represented by Poggi Gallery, Paris; Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg; Tanja Wagner Gallery, Berlin

Photo credit : Luc Castel

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Libourne, first stage of the Marcel Duchamp Prize Tour de France organised to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Prize in partnership with Platform and Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine Méca. Dedicated to women artists, the ConfidentiElles exhibition opened on 9 October at the Fine Arts Museum of Libourne in the Carmel Chapel. As part of the regional programme of Vivantes ! exhibitions and curated by Caroline Fillon, this exhibition questions the role of women in the art world and takes a sensitive look at the subject through the resonance of works dating from the 16th century to the present day.

Seven artists of the Marcel Duchamp Prize are taking part: Farah Atassi, Yto Barrada, Katinka Bock, Ulla Von Brandenburg, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Tatiana Trouvé, and Thu Van Tran.

Press kit : click here