This year, for the first time, Fluxus Art Projects, an organisation created in 2010 by the Institut français du Royaume-Uni,  awards a prize at Art Basel Paris, supporting talent from the British art scene and promoting the artists’ visibility internationally. The prize of €15,000 is shared between the artist and the gallery exhibiting their work at Art Basel Paris.

The winner of the prize is Jesse Darling (Sultana). In his multidisciplinary practice, the British artist considers how bodily subjects are initially formed and continuously reformed through sociopolitical influences. At Art Basel Paris, the artist has presented three works produced between 2018 and 2024: PHARMAKON I, REGALIA & INSIGNIA, and BIGWICK. Darling’s work VANITAS (2024) is also part of the Art Basel Paris Public Program on view at the Petit Palais, opposite the Grand Palais.

Founded in 2010 by Guillaume Sultana and based in the Marais, Sultana operates as a site for experimentation and expression, often bringing together well-established and emerging artists through a playful, yet politically engaged curatorial program. In 2021, Sultana opened Sultana Summer Set Arles, conceived as a residency and site of exchange, hosting projects angled toward creative freedom, reflection, and flânerie.

Glasgow-based artist Martin Boyce (The Modern Institute) has been awarded an honorary prize. Boyce’s work often comprises a vocabulary of images, typography, and interconnected forms which emerge across his sculptures, wall paintings, and photography. For Art Basel Paris, he has restaged pieces from his solo exhibition ‘Before Behind Between Above Below’ held at Fruitmarket, Edinburgh in 2024. The Grand Palais, with its Belle Epoque ironwork and elegant vaulted roof, provides the perfect foil for Boyce’s sculptures which examine the aesthetic and political legacy of Modernism.

The Modern Institute was founded in Glasgow in 1997. In addition to hosting exhibitions across its two spaces in Glasgow, the gallery publishes a variety of artists’ books and monographs.

This year’s Fluxus Prize jury was composed of Anne-Pierre d’Albis (Fluxus Art Projects trustee and member of the artistic committee); Caroline Bourgeois (curator); Bianca Chu (curator); Hélène Nguyen-Ban (chair of Fluxus Art Projects); Hans Ulrich Obrist (artistic director of Serpentine Galleries); François Quintin (director of Collection Lambert); and Paul-Emmanuel Reiffers (collector and curator).