Featured Events in Paris in September, 2025 (May Updated)

The shortlist for this year’s Prix Marcel Duchamp, announced by the Association for the International Diffusion of French Art (ADIAF) is: Bianca Bondi (born 1986 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Lives and works in Paris); Eva Nielsen (born 1983 in Les Lilas, France. Lives and works in Paris); Lionel Sabatté (born 1975 in Toulouse, France. Lives and works in Paris and Los Angeles); and Xie Lei (born 1983 in Huainan, China. Lives and works in Paris). Endowed with €90,000, the Prix Marcel Duchamp is the most prestigious contemporary art prize in France. It is awarded every year by the ADIAF to recognise contemporary art production by artists who are French or who live in the country. The prize is followed by an exhibition of the shortlisted artists. This year, for the first time since the creation of the prize in 2000, the exhibition will not be held at the Centre Pompidou, which will be closed for renovation. Instead, the exhibition will take place at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris from 26 September 2025 through 22 February 2026. The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris is set to host the exhibitions of the Marcel Duchamp Prize until 2029.

The shortlist for this year’s Prix Marcel Duchamp, announced by the Association for the International Diffusion of French Art (ADIAF) is: Bianca Bondi (born 1986 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Lives and works in Paris); Eva Nielsen (born 1983 in Les Lilas, France. Lives and works in Paris); Lionel Sabatté (born 1975 in Toulouse, France. Lives and works in Paris and Los Angeles); and Xie Lei (born 1983 in Huainan, China. Lives and works in Paris). Endowed with €90,000, the Prix Marcel Duchamp is the most prestigious contemporary art prize in France. It is awarded every year by the ADIAF to recognise contemporary art production by artists who are French or who live in the country. The prize is followed by an exhibition of the shortlisted artists. This year, for the first time since the creation of the prize in 2000, the exhibition will not be held at the Centre Pompidou, which will be closed for renovation. Instead, the exhibition will take place at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris from 26 September 2025 through 22 February 2026. The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris is set to host the exhibitions of the Marcel Duchamp Prize until 2029.

The exhibition traces the extraordinary life of this Italian artist, a Russian prince by birth and Parisian by adoption, who also had a brilliant career in the United States. A highly talented portraitist, he was much sought-after by a cosmopolitan elite, celebrities, the Parisian smart set and the first American film stars. His life was marked by decisive encounters and friendships with men of letters, Tolstoy in Russia and George Bernard Shaw in Paris, with whom he shared a vegetarian lifestyle, somewhat unusual for the era. In addition to the portraits that made his name, the exhibition will be highlighting his animal sculptures along with his astonishing work on behalf of animal rights, of which he was an ardent advocate well ahead of his time.

The exhibition traces the extraordinary life of this Italian artist, a Russian prince by birth and Parisian by adoption, who also had a brilliant career in the United States. A highly talented portraitist, he was much sought-after by a cosmopolitan elite, celebrities, the Parisian smart set and the first American film stars. His life was marked by decisive encounters and friendships with men of letters, Tolstoy in Russia and George Bernard Shaw in Paris, with whom he shared a vegetarian lifestyle, somewhat unusual for the era. In addition to the portraits that made his name, the exhibition will be highlighting his animal sculptures along with his astonishing work on behalf of animal rights, of which he was an ardent advocate well ahead of his time.