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Maja BAJEVIC
Born in 1967 in Sarajevo
in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Lives and works in Paris
Represented by : Galerie Michel Rein, Paris/Brussels, Peter Kilchmann, Zurich

Joana HADJITHOMAS and Khalil JOREIGE
Born in 1969 in Beirut
Live and work between Paris and Beirut
Représented by : Galerie In Situ-Fabienne Leclerc, Paris ; The Third Line, Dubai ;
CRG Gallery, New York

Charlotte MOTH
Born in 1978 in Carshalton in the United Kingdom
Lives and works in Paris
Represented by : Galerie Marcelle Alix, Paris

Vittorio SANTORO
Born in 1962 in Zurich
Lives and works between Paris and Zurich
Represented by : Galerie Thomas Bernard – Cortex Athletico, Paris, Counter Space, Zurich

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Kader ATTIA

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The jury for the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2016 convened on Tuesday, the 18th of October 2016
following the presentation of the works of the four nominated artists – Kader Attia, Yto Barrada,
Ulla von Brandenburg and Barthélémy Toguo – by the four reporters designated by the artists:
Omar Berrada, Dr. Clémentine Deliss, Jean de Loisy and Roger Malbert.

The Prix Marcel Duchamp 2016 has been awarded to Kader Attia

Kader Attia has been chosen by the Prix Marcel Duchamp jury as the winner of the 2016 edition. The ambition of his intention as well as the diversity of his approach and practices and the great relevance of his work have convinced the members of the Jury. Combining continuous reflection on the opposition between individual and collective consciousness using the metaphor of loss that is embodied by the notion of the “phantom limb” in his current practice, Kader Attia leads us to a personal reflection on the situation of a world more divided than ever. By way of a labyrinth bringing together the most diverse forms of representation and attempting to stitch together
the fragments of an atrophied world, Kader Attia proposes a portrait of the artist as bonesetter
and healer.

Bernard Blistène, President of the jury

I am delighted by the new dynamic given to the Prix Marcel Duchamp this year by the ADIAF and the Centre Pompidou. I warmly congratulate Kader Attia on this award. I really appreciate his work. I particularly have in mind one of his works, Ghost, conserved in the Centre Pompidou’s collections and currently on show in the Centre Pompidou Malaga. With that prescience so often signing major works, in 2007 Kader Attia had fixed a vision that was to be cruelly embodied in our collective history over these last few years: a vision of the vast migratory phenomenon affecting our Mediterranean world today. Art sometimes has that talent of premonition, that capacity to grasp the vibrations of a world in mutation. Kader Attia’s work has that fascinating power. I would also like to express my great admiration for the other three nominated artists also exhibited in the Centre Pompidou, whose works show the diversity, depth and power of the artistic scene in France.

Serge Lasvignes, President of the Centre Pompidou

I wish to salute an exceptional artist by reason of his natural generosity and breadth of vision.Thank-you to the Centre Pompidou for this first exhibition of the four artists nominated for the Prix Marcel Duchamp testifying to the vitality of our French scene.

Gilles Fuchs, President of the ADIAF.

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The Marcel Duchamp Prize is undergoing a major evolution in 2016. After 15 editions which have proven it to be one of the top benchmark national awards in the world, it is gaining new momentum thanks to an even stronger collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, the ADIAF’s partner ever since the prize’s creation.

“The evolution of our Prize’s format in 2016 pays tribute to the four finalists and will cast an even stronger spotlight on the French contemporary scene. This is a major turning point for the Marcel Duchamp Prize which is taking on a new dimension as well as being a great challenge for the nominated artists to meet.” Gilles Fuchs, President of the ADIAF

Inaugurated this autumn, the Marcel Duchamp Prize’s new format includes:
• A group show of the four nominated artists, and not solely for the winner as before.
• The show will be presented in the new Galerie 4 with a surface of 600m2, twice the space of the Prize’s previous exhibitions.
• The winner will be proclaimed in the Centre Pompidou during the week of the FIAC.
• The ADIAF will publish a catalogue of the marcel Duchamp Prize exhibition.
• The winner will receive a financial endowment of 35 000 euros from the ADIAF/em>

2016 SELECTION COMMITTEE:
Matthieu de BÉZENAC, Béatrice CHARON, Gilles FUCHS, Marie-Ange MOULONGUET, Jean-Bernard PONTHUS, Pierre PRADIÉ, Chantal SANGLIER, Daniel SCHILDGE, Akemi SHIRAHA, Colette TORNIER, Jean-Michel VERGÈS.

2016 INTERNATIONAL JURY:
Iwona BLAZWICK (United Kingdom), Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London Bernard BLISTÈNE (France), Director of the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris manuel BORJA-VILLEL (Spain), Director of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid Laurent DUmAs (France), Collector, President of Emerige Gilles fUCHS (France), Collector, President of the ADIAF Erika hOffmANN (Germany), Collector, Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin Akemi SHIRAhA (France-Japan), Representing the Marcel Duchamp association for the prize.

2016 REPORTERS :
Dr. Clémentine DELISS (Kader ATTIA), Exhibition Curator and Art Critic – Omar BERRADA (Yto BARRADA), Writer, Exhibition Curator, Director of Dar al-Ma’mûn (Marrakesh) – Jean de LOISY (Ulla von BRANDENBURG), President of the Palais de Tokyo, Paris – Roger MALBERT (Barthélémy TOGUO), Head of Hayward Touring, Hayward Gallery, London.

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Melik OHANIAN

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For his exhibition “Under Shadows” Melik Ohanian proposes a cosmic scenario halfway between poetry and science. He sets up an environment in which different dimensions are expressed, from the infinitely small to the infinitely large: two extremes where objects in the world around us fade into the background for the period of the exhibition.

The central work in this environment, Modelling Poetry, is inspired by a scientific conjecture announced by NASA, forecasting the collision of the Milky Way with the Andromeda Galaxy in four billion years’ time.

Curator : Christine Macel
From 1st June to 15 August 2016

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