Artist Duo Brognon Rollin Wins the Prix Marcel Duchamp
Artists David Brognon and Stéphanie Rollin have won the Prix Marcel Duchamp, one of France's best-known prizes for visual artists, The Art Newspaper reported on Friday 23 October.
The pair work together as Brognon Rollin. They are based in Paris and Luxembourg, and they have been collaborating for about twenty years. Brognon was born in 1978 in Messancy, a village in Belgium.
The winner receives €35,000 (euros). The prize money across the award totals €90,000, according to the same report.
The prize was launched in 2000 and is given every year to a visual artist of French nationality or someone who lives in France. Its nominees for 2026 were Joël Andrianomearisoa, Laura Henno and Josèfa Ntjam, alongside Brognon and Rollin. Earlier winners include Gaëlle Choisne, who won in 2024, and the Chinese painter Xie Lei, who won the year before Brognon and Rollin.
The duo's prize-winning installation is called 5,376 years, 1,892 months, 1,110 days, 1,201 hours. It is built from fairground coin-pusher machines, the games where coins slide back and forth on a ledge and some edge off the side. In this work, the machines are filled with sobriety tokens. Support groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous give these tokens to members to mark periods without drinking.
The title's numbers add up to a count of time spent sober, shown in several units at once. The installation is on view at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, the modern art museum in the French capital. The award exhibition runs until 7 February 2027, according to the Centre Pompidou, which organises the show with the museum.
The nominees were announced by ADIAF, the Association for the international diffusion of French art. Founded by Gilles Fuchs and chaired by Claude Bonnin since 2021, the group brings together 350 collectors of contemporary art.
For visitors to Paris this winter, the show is a chance to see the coin machines in person. For the two artists, the prize carries €35,000 and a spotlight on a project that turns a familiar fairground game into a count of hard-won days.
