Brognon Rollin Win 2026 Prix Marcel Duchamp, France's Top Art Prize

The Prix Marcel Duchamp jury has awarded its 2026 prize to artist duo David Brognon and Stéphanie Rollin, the jury announced Thursday. The winners receive €35,000, roughly $40,000 — the richest recognition in French contemporary art.

Brognon Rollin work across installation, sculpture, video, performance and photography. At the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, where the prize's annual exhibition moved this year, they presented the show 5,376 years, 1,892 months, 1,110 days, 1,201 hours. The installation consists of coin-pusher machines — the fairground arcade devices — filled with sobriety tokens like those Alcoholics Anonymous awards members at recovery milestones.

What did the jury say?

"With Brognon Rollin, the Prix Marcel Duchamp recognises a demanding body of work that gives tangible form to what usually escapes our gaze: the passage of time spent waiting, addiction and inner resilience," Fabrice Hergott, director of the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, said in a statement. "The work they have created for the museum, presenting these fairground objects through a subtle installation, fundamentally shifts our perspective. It is a quiet yet tenacious statement on human vulnerability and the exploration of our inner lives."

Hergott's museum hosted the exhibition because the Centre Pompidou, the prize's usual venue, remains closed for an extended renovation.

Who else was nominated?

The jury broke with convention this year, selecting five nominees instead of the usual four:

• Joël Andrianomearisoa, a Malagasy artist
• Josèfa Ntjam, who participated in last year's Bienal de São Paulo
• Laura Henno, artist and filmmaker
• David Brognon and Stéphanie Rollin, this year's winners

The nominees showed together in the annual exhibition, held in October at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris.

Who sat on the jury?

The 2026 jury drew directors from major institutions across France and Britain:

• Xavier Rey, director of the Centre Pompidou
• Claude Bonnin, director of ADIAF, the organization that has run the prize since its creation in 2000
• Akemi Shiraha, of the Association Marcel Duchamp
• Fabrice Hergott, director of the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris
• Collectors Fernando Arriola and Marie-Cécile Zinsou
• Artists Kader Attia, who won the prize himself in 2016, and Berlinde de Bruyckere
• Karin Hindsbo, director of Tate Modern
• Christophe Leribault, president of the Château de Versailles

What does the prize pay out?

The €35,000 winner's purse is only part of the money. ADIAF, the prize's sponsor, provides an additional €40,000 in financial support to the nominees and their galleries, along with a feature in a dedicated annual publication. That brings total support to €75,000 — roughly $86,000 — spread across the winner and the shortlisted artists.

Odile Burluraux, chief curator at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, curator at the Centre Pompidou—Musée national d'art moderne and head of the Bibliothèque Kandinsky, curated the exhibition.

The Prix Marcel Duchamp exhibition remains on view at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris through February 7, 2027 — giving visitors more than a year to see the work that earned the duo France's most prestigious art award.