Xie Lei has been awarded the 2025 Prix Marcel Duchamp. He was selected from a shortlist composed of four artists including Bianca Bondi, Eva Nielsen and Lionel Sabatté. Xie Lei will receive a €35,000 prize on top of the €10,000 awarded to each shortlisted artist to assist with the development of their exhibition.
Born in Huainan, China, and based in Paris, Xie Lei is a painter whose work explores the tension between visibility and evanescence. Approaching painting as a field of experimentation, he blends discreet evocations from literary and cinematographic realms with personal emotions to form microcosms that dwell on the complex and ambiguous nature of existence. For the prix Marcel Duchamp, Xie Lei presents seven monumental luminous green canvases that transform gravity into a dreamlike space.
The work of all four shortlisted artists is on view at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris through 22 February 2026.
Read more the four shortlisted artists for the 2025 Prix Marcel Duchamp
