Paris- and Luxembourg-based duo David Brognon and Stéphanie Rollin, who create work together under the moniker Brognon Rollin, have won the 2026 Prix Marcel Duchamp, beating out a short list that included visual artist Joël Andrianomearisoa, photographer and filmmaker Laura Henno, and artist, performer, and writer Josèfa Ntjam. Brognon Rollin will receive €30,000 ($39,000), while each of the runners-up will receive €10,000 ($11,000).
The award announcement was made on October 22 at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, where an exhibition of work by this year’s winners and finalists is on view through February 7, 2027. The Centre Pompidou; the Paris institution that typically hosts the show, is closed for renovations through 2030.
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Brognon, born in Belgium in 1978, and Rollin, born in Luxembourg in 1980, began collaborating in 2006. They are known for videos, sound installations, and conceptual work that “hacks social realities” and explores such topics as marginalized populations and systems of control.
The pair were honored for their installation 5,376 years, 1892 months, 1110 days, 1201 hours. To make the work, they amassed sobriety tokens, each representing the amount of time a given individual has been sober—from members of various abstinence groups, displaying them in an installation suggestive of arcade games. The title refers to the total amount of time represented by the collected tokens.
“With Brognon Rollin, the Marcel Duchamp Prize recognizes a demanding body of work that is committed to materializing what usually escapes the eye: the time of waiting, of addiction, and of intimate resistance,” said MAM director Fabrice Hergott in a statement.
Awarded annually, Prix Marcel Duchamp was established in 2000 to honor visual artists born or living in France. Previous winners include Kader Attia, Latifa Echakhch, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Thomas Hirschhorn, Tarik Kiswanson, Kapwani Kiwanga, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Tatiana Trouvé, and Xie Lei.