Brognon Rollin has won the 2026 Marcel Duchamp Prize, with the artist duo receiving the €35,000 top award at a ceremony held on October 22 at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris. Bonnin, president of ADIAF, the Association pour la diffusion internationale de l’art français, announced the result during Paris Art Week.
The prize recognizes the Belgian-Luxembourgish pair’s installation, 5,376 Years, 1,892 Months, 1,110 Days, 1,201 Hours, a work built around sobriety tokens issued by support groups to acknowledge periods of abstinence. Brognon, born in Belgium in 1978, and Rollin, born in Luxembourg in 1980, have collaborated since meeting at Mudam, Luxembourg’s museum of modern art, and beginning their joint practice in 2006.
Their winning installation turns objects usually carried privately into a carefully staged public structure. Since 2022, the artists have collected the tokens, each marked with a duration of sobriety, and placed them in four carnival-style machines. The machines hold the objects in a precarious balance rather than dispensing them, creating an image of accumulated time that depends on restraint, maintenance and collective care.
Three wall lights within the installation are connected to a person identified as Kate, who has been sober for eight years. She remotely adjusts their intensity, extending the work beyond the gallery and giving a participant with lived experience a continuing role in its presentation. The piece places recovery, duration and vulnerability at the center of an award more often associated with debates around contemporary art’s institutional visibility.
Prize moves to the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris
The 2026 ceremony took place at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris because the Centre Pompidou’s Beaubourg building is undergoing renovation. ADIAF and the Centre Pompidou have partnered on the Marcel Duchamp Prize since its creation in 2000, but the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris will host the shortlisted artists’ exhibitions and winner announcements between 2025 and 2029.
The current exhibition also includes work by the three other finalists: Andrianomearisoa, Henno and Ntjam. It was curated by Burluraux and Liucci-Goutnikov and is due to remain open through February 7, 2027. Admission is free.
The Marcel Duchamp Prize has a total endowment of €90,000 and recognizes four artists or artist collectives each year. While the winner receives €35,000, the structure gives all finalists access to one of France’s best-known contemporary-art platforms, with an exhibition attached to the selection process. ADIAF also funds international exhibitions and residency initiatives, including partnerships with Villa Albertine in the United States and the Manufacture de Sèvres.
The jury for this year’s prize was chaired by Rey, director of the Musée national d’art moderne. Kader Attia, who won the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2016, was among the jurors. Organizers also list Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Tatiana Trouvé and Karim Moussaoui among the notable participants involved with the prize over the years.
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