Prix Marcel Duchamp 2025 - Bianca Bondi, Eva Nielsen, Lionel Sabatté, Xie Lei

For 25 years, the Marcel Duchamp Prize has aimed to promote contemporary French artists or artists residing in France in the field of plastic and visual arts. Selected by a jury of collectors, the four nominated artists are invited to exhibit their new projects at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris at the end of September.

For this year's edition, the finalists are:

- Bianca Bondi, known for the past decade for her multi-sensory, almost shamanic installations based on the use of salt, plants and semi-precious stones, often altered by chemical reactions;
- Eva Nielsen, who opens up a parallel dimension where fragments of nature and architecture are transformed to form mental landscapes, through her collages combining painting, photography and screen printing;
- Lionel Sabatté, who is as skilled at sculpting bronze as he is at printing photographs using dust or painting with oxidation. Dense forests, deer, bears and prehistoric creatures are recurring motifs in his strange creations;
- Xie Lei, a Chinese painter based in Paris, who presents an intimate and magical universe in canvas after canvas, as evidenced by those currently on display at the Semiose gallery.

Contents

Preface
Claude Bonnin

Foreword
Xavier Rey & Fabrice Hergott

Added value
Jean-Pierre Criqui & Julia Garimorth

BIANCA BONDI
Invisible worlds
Jerôme Sans

EVA NIELSEN
Dans la faille : usures et vertiges des paysages
Marianne Derrien

LIONEL SABATTÉ
Aux frontières
David Quéré

XIE LEI
Verticales
Julia Marchand