The four finalists are:
Enrique Ramirez. Born in 1979 in Santiago, Chili; lives and works in France. Represented by the Galerie Michel Rein, Paris. Read further here.
Kapwani Kiwanga. Born in 1978 in Hamilton, Canada; lives and works in Paris. Represented by Jérôme Poggi in Paris, Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg, and Galerie Tanja Wagner in Berlin. Read further here.
Kapwani Kiwanga, Flowers for Africa: Ivory Coast, 2014. Protocol written and signed by the artist, iconographic documents, various sizes. Credit Aurélien Mole ©,courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris
Alice Anderson. French-British artists, born in 1972 in London; lives and works in London. Represented by the Galerie Valérie Bach, Brussels.
Hicham Berrada. Born in 1986 in Casablanca; lives and works in Paris. Represented by the Galerie Kamel Mennour in Paris/London, Wentrup in Berlin, and CulturesInterface in Casablanca.
The selection committee this year brought together Claude Bonnin, Oliviu Crisan, Gilles Fuchs, Dorith Galuz, Pascale Gérardin, Frédéric de Goldschmidt, Gérard Mavalais, Sophie Safari, Jean-Philippe Vernes, Didier Wolf and Akemi Shiraha.
The finalists will be featured in an exhibition at the Pompidou Centre from next September, with the winner being announced on October 19.
Since its creation in 2000, the flagship prize of the contemporary French scene has been awarded to Thomas Hirschhorn (2000), Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (2002), Mathieu Mercier(2003), Carole Benzaken (2004), Claude Closky (2005), Philippe Mayaux (2006), Tatiana Trouvé (2007), Laurent Grasso(2008), Saâdane Afif (2009), Cyprien Gaillard (2010), Mircea Cantor (2011), Daniel Dewar et Grégory Gicquel (2012), Latifa Echakhch (2013), Julien Prévieux (2014), Melik Ohanian(2015), Kader Attia (2016), Joana Hadjithomas et Khalil Joreige (2017), Clément Cogitore (2018) and Eric Baudelaire (2019).
