Rémi Marcel

Rubis Mécénat Prize

Saint-Eustache church, Paris

2026

Rémi Marcel

Rémi Marcel, a 5th year student in Tatiana Trouvé’s studio, is the winner of the 6th edition of the Rubis Mécénat Prize with Beaux-Arts de Paris. As such, he will receive guidance from Oulimata Gueye, guest curator of this new edition, and production assistance to create an original artistic installation to be presented at the Saint-Eustache church from October 2026.

Rémi Marcel’s practice is rooted in his early training as a chef and pastry chef and in his interest in all living environments, particularly their relationships of exchange and interaction. The artist creates installations in which seeds, plants, and vegetables play a part in the creative process. His work—which combines sculpture, drawing, and installation, as well as utilitarian and artistic objects—places great emphasis on the aesthetic, sensory, and poetic experience shared around a meal, a fire, or materials in transformation. For the Rubis Mécénat Prize, Rémi Marcel has conceived an installation that engages in a dialogue with the Church of Saint-Eustache, its architecture, and its place in the urban history of food.

Rémi Marcel

Rémi Marcel was born in 2002 in Charente. After training as a cook and then a pastry chef, he changed course to join the Beaux-Arts de Paris, where he became part of Tatiana Trouvé's studio. There he developed an installation practice in which food becomes a material in its own right. Cooking becomes for him an aesthetic means, allowing him to create living devices that reflect cyclical processes. Rémi Marcel reveals active environments in which the audience becomes a participant. He considers himself a walker — creating from what surrounds him is essential. He seeks to immerse himself in places and to root himself within them in order to better inhabit them. His creative process is part of a way of life, a way of being in the world that does not place his different life experiences in any hierarchy. Everything contributes to one and the same artistic project, where forms emerge from simple, situated actions.