Onassis Culture at the 2019 Marcel Duchamp Prize
Director of Culture at the Onassis Foundation, Afroditi Panagiotakou in the jury for France’s prestigious art prize
After the invitation of the Onassis Stegi to the distinguished Lebanese pair, Joana Hadjthomas & Khalil Joreige, who won the Prix Marcel Duchamp in 2017, the Onassis Foundation returns with a spot in the jury. Afroditi Panagiotakou, Director of Culture at the Onassis Foundation is among others, part of the committee supporting all French artists and artists residing in France working in the field of the plastic and visual arts. The 19th edition has been marked by the wealth and diversity of profoundly singular practices. This is what made it difficult for the jury to decide among four artists nominated for this edition of the prize: Éric Baudelaire, Katinka Bock, Marguerite Humeau, Ida Tursic and Wilfried Mille.
The award was finally given to filmmaker Éric Baudelaire and his project titled Un Film Dramatique "for his film’s power, the originality of its ingenious means and the feeling of hope that it bears,” as stated by Bernard Blistène, Director of Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou and President of the jury.
“Whilst the theme of melancholy often appears in artistic creation, the jury has opted for the look that Eric Baudelaire has cast on the future.”
The jury comprised of seven personalities -Bernard Blistène, the Director of the Centre Pompidou, Joao Fernandes, the Deputy director of the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, Gilles Fuchs, the President of ADIAF, Jean de Loisy, the Director of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, Afroditi Panagiotakou, the Director of Culture at the Onassis Foundation, Catherine Petitgas, the President of Fluxus Art Projects and International Council of Tate, and Akemi Shiraha, a representative for the Marcel Duchamp Association- has awarded the 2019 Marcel Duchamp Prize to Éric Baudelaire, a French artist born in Salt Lake City in 1973, living and working in Paris and represented by the galleries, Greta Meert in Brussels, Barbara Wien in Berlin and Juana de Aizpuru in Madrid.
The exhibition of the four artists shortlisted for the 2019 Marcel Duchamp Prize will be on view in the Galerie 4 of the Centre Pompidou until the 6th of January, 2020.
Presided over by Gilles Fuchs, the ADIAF (Association for the International Diffusion of French Art) groups together 400 collectors of French contemporary art all firmly committed to the adventure of creation. Sponsored by art patron-businesses, the ADIAF has set itself the task of spotlighting the creative energy of the French scene at the beginning of the 21st century and of helping to raise its international profile. Created in 2000 by the ADIAF and organized from the outset in partnership with the Centre Pompidou, the Marcel Duchamp Prize intends to bring together the most innovative artists and confront all of the artistic forms. Each year, it honours one laureate from among four French artists or artists residing in France working in the field of the plastic and visual arts: installation, video, painting, photography, sculpture.
Thomas Hirschhorn (2000), Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (2002), Mathieu Mercier (2003), Carole Benzaken (2004), Claude Closky (2005), Philippe Mayaux (2006), Tatiana Trouvé (2007), Laurent Grasso (2008), Saâdane Afif (2009), Cyprien Gaillard (2010), Mircea Cantor (2011), Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel (2012), Latifa Echakhch (2013), Julien Prévieux (2014), Melik Ohanian (2015), Kader Attia (2016), Joana Hadjthomas & Khalil Joreige (2017) and Clément Cogitore (2018).
Photo: Manuel Braun