# Artprice Congratulates Brognon Rollin Winners of the 2026 Marcel Duchamp Prize

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_Thought and Human Experience at the Heart of Creation_

PARIS, Oct. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — **A longstanding partner of the Marcel Duchamp
Prize, Artprice by Artmarket congratulates the duo Brognon Rollin, whose award was
announced on Thursday, October 22, 2026, by Claude Bonnin, President of ADIAF, at
the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris. Through an installation built around sobriety 
tokens, David Brognon and Stéphanie Rollin give tangible form to the time spent 
in abstinence. Their work establishes a particularly direct connection with Marcel
Duchamp’s conceptual legacy and places human experience at the heart of creation.**

 [⌊Brognon Rollin, winners, with Claude Bonnin, President of ADIAF, October 22, 2026 © Luc Castel⌉](https://mmx.prnewswire.com/media/MS2019892/Brogon-Rollin-lauréats-Claude-Bonnin-Président-de-l-Adiaf-le-22-octobre-2.jpg?id=OA3037416)

Brognon Rollin, winners, with Claude Bonnin, President of ADIAF, October 22, 2026
© Luc Castel

The award comes during a Paris Art Week disrupted by the early closure of Art Basel
Paris on Friday, October 23, at 7 p.m., ahead of its public weekend, because of 
planned demonstrations and related security concerns. At the Musée d’Art Moderne
de Paris, the Marcel Duchamp Prize ceremony stands as one of the week’s major events,
opening a discussion that will continue long after the fair. 

**A Major Contemporary Art Prize Since 2000**

Established in 2000 by ADIAF, the Association pour la diffusion internationale de
l’art français, and organized in partnership with the Centre Pompidou from the outset,
the Marcel Duchamp Prize promotes the French art scene internationally. While the
Centre Pompidou’s historic Beaubourg building undergoes renovation, the Musée d’Art
Moderne de Paris is hosting the exhibitions of shortlisted artists and the announcement
of the winner from 2025 through 2029.

With a total endowment of €90,000, including €35,000 awarded to the winner, the 
Prize recognizes four artists or artist collectives each year. ADIAF extends this
support through international exhibitions and residencies, notably with Villa Albertine
in the United States and the Manufacture de Sèvres. Past winners include Dominique
Gonzalez-Foerster, Tatiana Trouvé, Clément Cogitore, Tarik Kiswanson, Gaëlle Choisne,
and Xie Lei. Kader Attia, the 2016 winner, served on this year’s jury, chaired by
Xavier Rey, Director of the Musée national d’art moderne. 

**Making the Time of Abstinence Visible**

David Brognon, born in Belgium in 1978, and Stéphanie Rollin, born in Luxembourg
in 1980, met at Mudam and have worked together since 2006. Represented by the gallery
mfc-michèle didier, they have developed a practice attentive to waiting, confinement,
and people living on the margins of society. Their works take shape through encounters
with individual lives and circumstances.

Their installation, titled 5,376 Years, 1,892 Months, 1,110 Days, 1,201 Hours, adds
together the periods inscribed on the sobriety tokens they have been collecting 
since 2022. Awarded by support groups to mark milestones in abstinence, these objects
bear witness to fragile victories and efforts sustained day after day.

In the dimly lit space, four carnival machines hold the tokens. Their mechanisms
keep them in a precarious balance: they never fall. Three wall lights are connected
to Kate, who has been sober for eight years and remotely adjusts their intensity
according to what she is experiencing. The installation brings the rhythm of an 
actual human life into the exhibition.

Each token thus represents a period of lived time. The possibility of falling, the
waiting, and the perseverance become perceptible. The work opens a meditation on
suffering, the effort to hold on, and the vulnerability of existence, extending 
to the question of mortality. 

**A Conceptual Work in the Tradition of Marcel Duchamp**

In an intimate and sensitive conversation with thierry Ehrmann, Claude Bonnin, President
of ADIAF, emphasized the connection between this work and Marcel Duchamp’s approach,
as well as its two intertwined dimensions: fully conceptual and profoundly human.

The Marcel Duchamp Prize has always embraced a diversity of practices, from painting
and sculpture to video and installation. With Brognon Rollin, the connection to 
the readymade is particularly clear: preexisting objects, imbued with uses and histories,
are relocated and brought together in an arrangement that transforms their meaning.
The thought that selects them and establishes relationships among them becomes constitutive
of the work.

Marcel Duchamp, a foundational figure for conceptual art, profoundly reshaped the
definition of the artistic act. With the readymade, choosing an object, designating
it as art, and presenting it in a different context can constitute an act of creation.
The work’s meaning then engages perception and thought as much as its material fabrication.

Brognon Rollin brings a distinctive human depth to this shift. The token leaves 
its original use behind and carries the trace of an intimate struggle into public
space. The rigor of the installation makes palpable what a number alone cannot convey:
the weight of a day endured, the uncertainty of tomorrow, the determination to continue.
Stéphanie Rollin sums up this approach in a single sentence: "Our primary material
is the human being." 

**From the Conceptual Act to the Pen Entrusted to AI**

For Artprice, this edition of the Marcel Duchamp Prize extends the discussion into
writing: how do we define the act of creation when human thought gives meaning to
a form that has not been made entirely by the creator’s own hand?

This question runs through _Dialogue Between a Thinker and AI_, the world-book by
thierry Ehrmann, founder of Artprice and creator of La Demeure du Chaos. Over forty
days and forty nights of dialogue, nearly four hundred and fifty hours, he brought
his memories, archives, reasoning, and contradictions into an exchange with artificial
intelligence. In the introductory text The Entrusted Pen, he describes his decision
to entrust the writing to AI while continuing the work of thinking, challenging,
and correcting, and assuming responsibility for the content.

The connection Artprice proposes concerns the role of intention, experience, and
meaning in the creative act. In Brognon Rollin’s work, the selection and arrangement
of objects make the traces of human lives accessible. In the book, a spoken voice
and personal archives sustain a dialogue whose writing is entrusted to AI. In each
case, the reader or visitor is invited to look beyond the production process and
consider what is being conveyed.

A token can count the days of abstinence; it cannot, on its own, contain all the
effort they required. Artificial intelligence can give written form to the story
of a life; it has not lived the existence from which that story emerges. This gap
gives the question of transmission its full significance: how can deeply personal
experience be made shareable?

Duchamp’s legacy allows us to pose this question with renewed clarity. Creation 
can involve the selection, arrangement, and articulation of thought. In the age 
of AI, this reflection extends to the author’s responsibility, the experiences the
author brings, and the meaning for which the author answers.

Through its support for the Marcel Duchamp Prize, Artprice backs artists who renew
our ways of seeing. With _Dialogue Between a Thinker and AI_, thierry Ehrmann offers
readers an experiment that questions our ways of writing and passing on experience.
The encounter between these two approaches opens a shared space for reflection on
the place of human beings in creation. 

**An Edition Centered on Human Experience**

Curated by Odile Burluraux and Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov, the exhibition also features
Joël Andrianomearisoa, who explores the materiality of emotions through textiles,
architecture, and writing; Laura Henno, whose photographs and films follow, among
others, people living clandestinely in the Comoros and Mayotte; and Josèfa Ntjam,
who combines archives, African mythologies, and science fiction to shift narratives
of origin. 

**Visit the Exhibition and Read the Book**

The exhibition of the four artists shortlisted for the 2026 Marcel Duchamp Prize
is on view at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris through February 7, 2027, as part
of its partnership with the Centre Pompidou and ADIAF. Admission is free.

_Dialogue Between a Thinker and AI_ will be available in full in French and English,
free to read online and download in its Raw Typescript version, under the CC BY-
NC-ND 4.0 license.

French version: [https://www.dialoguebetweenathinkerandai.com/fr/](https://www.dialoguebetweenathinkerandai.com/fr/)

English version: [https://www.dialoguebetweenathinkerandai.com/en/](https://www.dialoguebetweenathinkerandai.com/en/)

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