1 - Marcel Duchamp Prize

Since its creation by the ADIAF in 2000, the Marcel Duchamp Prize has invited each nominated artist to choose a rapporteur—an expert tasked with presenting their career and the work created for the exhibition at the Centre Pompidou. A demanding exercise entrusted to leading figures in the art world. For this 25th edition, once again, four outstanding individuals will take on this role with insight and dedication.

Rapporteur for Bianca BONDI – Jérôme SANS, Curator and Artistic Director

Internationally renowned for his pioneering and cross-disciplinary approach to new models of cultural institutions and exhibitions, Jérôme Sans explores the connections between art and design, fashion, music, and architecture. He constantly reimagines how art can be experienced beyond traditional exhibition formats, often working with brands and activating urban spaces. He is the co-founder of the iconic Palais de Tokyo in Paris—now emulated worldwide—and was the founding director of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing (UCCA). From 2022 to 2024, he served as the artistic director of LagoAlgo, located in the heart of Mexico City’s Chapultepec Park. He is currently the co-founder and artistic director of Cookie Factory, a landmark new venue for contemporary art and cultural exchange in Denver, Colorado, which opened in May 2025 with a solo show by Sam Falls. In addition to his numerous publications, he was editor-in-chief of the French cultural magazine L’Officiel Art. In 2022 and 2023, he organized major public interventions in Paris’s Place Vendôme with Alicja Kwade and Bernar Venet. He has curated major international exhibitions, including the Taipei Biennial (2000), the Lyon Biennale (2005), Erwin Wurm at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade (2022), Noor Riyadh (2023), the Frieder Burda Museum (2024), and Doug Aitken at Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul (2024–2025).

Rapporteur for Eva NIELSEN – Marianne DERRIEN, Independent Curator, Art Critic and Lecturer, Member of C-E-A and AICA France

After working as exhibition project manager at the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici, Marianne Derrien has collaborated as a guest curator with museums and independent venues across France (Mrac Occitanie in Sérignan, Cité internationale des arts, Le Wonder, Mac Val…) and internationally (Mudam in Luxembourg, Unosunove in Rome, Wooyang Museum in South Korea, Plataforma Revolver in Lisbon, The Pill in Istanbul…). She teaches in the Master’s program Sciences and Techniques of Exhibition at the School of Arts, Sorbonne University, and regularly publishes critical texts on both emerging and established artists. Since 2020, she has held a curatorial residency at Le Wonder, an artist-run space in the Paris region, where she has developed curatorial projects (Humain autonome), publishing ventures (Some of Us, Manuella Éditions), and co-founded the independent curatorial platform Fluidlabor. In 2023, she and artist Eva Nielsen were recipients of the BMW Art Makers program, participating in both Les Rencontres d’Arles and Paris Photo.

Rapporteur for Lionel SABATTÉ – David QUÉRÉ, Physicist, Researcher Specializing in Surface Phenomena

David Quéré focuses his research on systems where surfaces play a central role—drops, bubbles, and liquid films. He teaches in Master’s programs (M1 and M2) in Paris (École Polytechnique and École Normale Supérieure) as well as abroad (notably at MIT, BeiHang, Tsinghua, and Padua). Author of around 200 scientific publications (including four books), he has served as editor for several scientific journals, including Europhysics Letters, Physics of Fluids, Soft Matter, and Physical Review Fluids. He received the Ernest-Dechelle Prize from the French Academy of Sciences in 2001, the CNRS Silver Medal in 2014, and the American Physical Society’s Fluid Dynamics Prize in 2021. In 2023 and 2024, he also published four art booklets with Yvon Lambert and Fata Morgana.

Rapporteur for XIE Lei – Julia MARCHAND, Curator and Researcher Based in Venice

Julia Marchand’s research focuses on adolescent aesthetics in visual arts and the editorial and political activities of Ilia Zdanevich (1894–1975), whom she spotlighted in the Georgian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, which she curated. From 2015 to 2023, she was curator at the Vincent van Gogh Foundation in Arles, where she co-conceived, with Bice Curiger, a series of major exhibitions: Action / Gesture / Painting: Women in Abstraction, A Global History, 1940–1970(2023), Nicole Eisenman and the Moderns (2022), Laura Owens and Vincent van Gogh (2021), Pirosmani: Wanderers Between Worlds (2019), Dark Ages: James Ensor & Alexander Kluge (2019), Complicity (2020), Hot Sun, Late Sun(2018), and Simple Life – Simply Life (2017). As artistic director of Extramentale, she has worked with artists such as Saradibiza (video game TVSF, shown at Centre Pompidou Metz and “Octobre Numérique – Faire Monde”), Anaïs-Tohé Commaret (Édouard Manet Art Center, Gennevilliers), Mohamed Bourouissa (Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie), and Lisa Yuskavage (Zwirner Gallery, Paris). In 2020, she organized a symposium on the carnivalesque at the Centre Pompidou with Claire Tancons, Paul B. Preciado, Jenkin v. Zyl, Mathis Collins, and Jean-Baptiste Carobolante. She is currently preparing an exhibition on Ilia Zdanevich and Marcel Duchamp’s Boîte-en-valise at Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare (Bolzano, Italy), a lecture series on Frank Bowling (Beaux-Arts de Paris and Hauser & Wirth), and a podcast project for Projets Media. This year, she is guest curator of the Rubis Mécénat x Beaux-Arts de Paris Prize. Trained between London (Goldsmiths, University of London), India (Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal), and France (Panthéon-Sorbonne), she initially specialized in vernacular and artistic practices of the Indian Gond and Warli tribes.