The French-Haitian artist Gaëlle Choisne has won the 2024 Prix Marcel Duchamp. She will receive 35,000 euros and a two-year residency at the porcelain factory Sèvres – Manufacture and Musée Nationaux.
This year’s other nominated artists were Abdelkader Benchamma, Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain, and Noémie Goudal.
Writing in ArtReview, Fi Churchman described how Gaëlle Choisne’s works on paper and sculpture ‘take on a cosmic and spiritual aesthetic – including what she has described as “galactic, talismanic writing” – to address colonial history, the trans and non-binary body and the “transgenerational” family.’
Given by by the Association for the International Diffusion of French Art (ADIAF) to recognise contemporary art production in France, the Prix Marcel Duchamp is the most prestigious contemporary art prize in France. It is awarded yearly to an artist who is either French or living in the country.
The prize disburses 90,000 euros, of which 35,000 euros are given to the winner and the rest is distributed between the finalists. Last year’s winner was Tarik Kiswanson. Previous winners included Kader Attia, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Melik Ohanian.
The Prix Marcel Duchamp 2024 is on show now at Centre Pompidou, through 6 January 2025.
