The Pinault Collection supports art history research with the annual award of a prize distinguishing a work on modern or contemporary art history. Created by François Pinault in 2015, in memory of his friend the historian Pierre Daix who passed away in 2014, the Pierre Daix prize is awarded at the end of every year.
Like creation, all art history research is dynamic, and contributes to forcefully writing the art of our times through critical feedback and a viewpoint. The Pierre Daix prize consecrates the fraternity between art and art history, as well as between today’s creation and the productions of the past.
François Pinault awards the 2022 Prix Pierre Daix to Jérémie Koering
The Pinault Collection announces that the Prix Pierre Daix is awarded this year to Jérémie Koering’s book Les iconophages, une histoire de l’ingestion des images, published by Actes Sud in 2021.
The Prix Pierre Daix was created by François Pinault in 2015 in honour of his friend, the writer and art historian Pierre Daix, who died in 2014. Every year since then, this prize of 10,000 euros has been awarded to a work devoted to the history of modern and contemporary art.
The members of the jury congratulate the art historian and professor Jérémie Koering on his work, on the quality of his research and writing, and on his choice of a subject –a history of iconophagia, or the eating of images, from Antiquity to the present– that is highly unusual and barely documented, for which he delved back into Antiquity to describe how this practice informs modern and contemporary creations.
As a model for a new kind of art history, this novel and erudite analysis captured the jury’s attention for its ability to renew the discipline, to make it current, and to take it past its traditional confines.
Liste des prix Pierre Daix EN
Prix Pierre Daix 2022
Le Prix Pierre Daix a été remis à Jérémie Koering le 28 novembre 2022 à la Bourse de Commerce par François Pinault.
2021 Pierre Daix Prize
The 2021 Pierre Daix Prize was awarded to Germain Viatte by François Pinault at the Bourse de Commerce.
2020 Pierre Daix Prize
The 2020 Pierre Daix Prize was awarded to Pascal Rousseau by François Pinault at the Bourse de Commerce.
2019 Pierre Daix Prize
The 2019 Pierre Daix Prize was awarded to Rémi Labrusse by François Pinault at the Musée national Picasso-Paris.
2018 Pierre Daix Prize
The fourth annual Pierre Daix Prize was awarded to art historian Pierre Wat for his book “Pérégrination: Paysages entre Nature et Histoire”.
2017 Pierre Daix Prize
The 2017 Pierre Daix Prize was awarded to “Ce que le Sida m’a fait — Art et activisme à la fin du XXe siècle” by Elisabeth Lebovici, published in 2017 by editions JRP | Ringier, in collaboration with la maison rouge — Antoine de Galbert Foundation.
2016 Pierre Daix Prize
The 2016 Pierre Daix Prize was awarded to Maurice Fréchuret for his work “Effacer. Paradoxe d’un Geste Artistique” [Erasing. A Paradoxical Artistic Gesture], published by Les Presses du Réel.
2015 Pierre Daix Prize
The first Pierre Daix Prize in the history of modern and contemporary art was awarded jointly to Yve-Alain Bois and Marie-Anne Lescourret.
Prix Pierre Daix 2023
Le Prix Pierre Daix a été remis à Paula Barreiro López le 20 novembre 2023 à la Bourse de Commerce par François Pinault.
Prix Pierre Daix 2022
Le Prix Pierre Daix a été remis à Jérémie Koering le 28 novembre 2022 à la Bourse de Commerce par François Pinault.
2021 Pierre Daix Prize
The 2021 Pierre Daix Prize was awarded to Germain Viatte by François Pinault at the Bourse de Commerce.
2020 Pierre Daix Prize
The 2020 Pierre Daix Prize was awarded to Pascal Rousseau by François Pinault at the Bourse de Commerce.
2019 Pierre Daix Prize
The 2019 Pierre Daix Prize was awarded to Rémi Labrusse by François Pinault at the Musée national Picasso-Paris.
2018 Pierre Daix Prize
The fourth annual Pierre Daix Prize was awarded to art historian Pierre Wat for his book “Pérégrination: Paysages entre Nature et Histoire”.
2017 Pierre Daix Prize
The 2017 Pierre Daix Prize was awarded to “Ce que le Sida m’a fait — Art et activisme à la fin du XXe siècle” by Elisabeth Lebovici, published in 2017 by editions JRP | Ringier, in collaboration with la maison rouge — Antoine de Galbert Foundation.
2016 Pierre Daix Prize
The 2016 Pierre Daix Prize was awarded to Maurice Fréchuret for his work “Effacer. Paradoxe d’un Geste Artistique” [Erasing. A Paradoxical Artistic Gesture], published by Les Presses du Réel.
2015 Pierre Daix Prize
The first Pierre Daix Prize in the history of modern and contemporary art was awarded jointly to Yve-Alain Bois and Marie-Anne Lescourret.