The Commissioners and Nominees for the 10th Edition of the AWARE Prizes 2026

For this edition, the selected artists of the Nouveau Regard Prize and their commissioners are: 

• Cécile B. Evans, nominated by Juliette Desorgues, curator and art critic; 
• Laura Gozlan, nominated by Vincent Enjalbert, curator and Head of Exhibitions at Bétonsalon; 
• Bettina Samson, nominated by Amélie Deschamps and Lucie Camous, an artist-researcher duo; 
• and Saodat Ismailova, nominated by Dilda Ramazan, curator and art historian.

The 2026 jury will be chaired by Jeanne Brun (Deputy Director for Collections, Centre Pompidou – Musée national d’art moderne), and will include: Camille Morineau (Curator, co-founder and head of the AWARE unit, Centre Pompidou – MNAM), Philippe Bettinelli (Curator in the New Media Department, Centre Pompidou – MNAM), Myriam Mihindou (artist, winner of the 2022 AWARE Nouveau Regard Prize), Victorine Grataloup (Director of Triangle- Asterines, Co-President of DCA), Salimata Diop (exhibition curator), and Sébastien Faucon (Curator at the LAM, Villeneuve d’Ascq).

A New Institutional Boost for the 10th Anniversary of the Prix AWARE

In January 2026, AWARE joined Centre Pompidou as a program within the Musée national d’art moderne, to continue and expand its core research and promotion missions, and to strengthen the Museum’s efforts in this area, focusing on female and non-binary artists represented in the collection or who are part of the history of modern and contemporary art. Centre Pompidou’s commitment reflects its strong desire to support women and non-binary artists on the French art scene and confirms the importance of the work carried out for many years by the AWARE teams in this field.

This partnership builds on a constructive dialogue between Centre Pompidou and the AWARE association, established following the remarkable work carried out by Camille Morineau for "elles@centrepompidou,” a thematic exhibition of the collections of the Musée national d’art moderne from May 2009 to February 2011, which she curated.

This integration enables the continuation of research and the expansion of AWARE’s activities, which have been supported for several years by the Ministry of Culture and developed tirelessly thanks to numerous loyal patrons.