The BNP Paribas Banque Privée Prize. A Focus on the French Scene (with prize money totalling €40,000) was jointly launched in 2024 by BNP Paribas Banque Privée and Art Paris. It rewards a living artist active on the French art scene. For its 3^rd edition, the winner will be selected from among the artists exhibiting in Babel: Art and Language in France curated by Loïc le Gall.

The winning artist will be selected by a prestigious jury made up of personalities from the arts who all share the common desire to support French creativity. Their name will be revealed during the opening ceremony of Art Paris 2026. This prize allows BNP Paribas Banque Privée to support an artist’s career and showcase how the artist’s gallery works to promote them and develop a wider awareness of their work.

By underlining the correspondences between works that are already part of the history of art and those produced by emerging artists on the French art scene, the prize also establishes a dialogue between different generations.

The 18 selected artists:

Juliette Agnel – Galerie Clémentine de la Ferronnière
Joël Andrianomearisoa – Galerie Almine Rech
Taysir Batniji – Galerie Eric Dupont
Léo Fourdrinier – Galerie Les filles du calvaire
Fabrice Hyber – Galerie Nathalie Obadia
Mireille Kassar – Saleh Barakat Gallery
Elias Kurdy – Dilecta
Jean Le Gac – Galerie Françoise Livinec
MC Mitout – Galerie Claire Gastaud
Tania Mouraud – Galerie Claire Gastaud
Julie Navarro – Galerie Wagner
Sara Ouhaddou – Galerie Polaris
Laure Prouvost – Galerie Nathalie Obadia
Luca Resta – Galerie Yvon Lambert
Anne-Marie Schneider – Galerie Michel Rein
Ernest T. – Semiose
Camille Tsvetoukhine – Loevenbruck
Fabienne Verdier – Galerie Lelong