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# French Video and Installation Artist Laure Prouvost Wins Turner Prize
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/french-video-and-installation-artist-laure-prouvost-wins-turner-prize/
- Published: 2013-12-02T21:08:27.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:01:06.000Z
- Description: French video and installation artist Laure Prouvost has been announced as the winner of the Tate's Turner Prize, given this year in Londonderry, UK.
- Author: Mostafa Heddaya
- Tags: News, David Shrigley, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Tino Sehgal, Turner prize, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:59 (2012, 2013, part 2)

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Laure Prouvost, “Wantee” (2013) (image via Tate Britain, courtesy the artist and MOT International)

French video and installation artist [Laure Prouvost](http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/two-minute-turner-laure-prouvost?ref=hyperallergic.com) has been announced as the winner of the Tate’s Turner Prize, given this year in Londonderry, UK. Prouvost, whose winning installation “[Wantee](http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/schwitters-britain/schwitters-britain-tate-and-grizedale-arts?ref=hyperallergic.com)” centers around a fictional, Kurt Schwitters–inflected grandfather character, beat out a shortlist comprising [Lynette Yiadom Boakye](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynette%5FYiadom%5FBoakye?ref=hyperallergic.com), [David Shrigley](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%5FShrigley?ref=hyperallergic.com), and [Tino Sehgal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tino%5FSehgal?ref=hyperallergic.com). The award was presented by the actor Saoirse Ronan at the first Turner ceremony held outside of England, in Northern Ireland’s city of [Derry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derry?ref=hyperallergic.com) (officially Londonderry).

The Turner Prize, which carries a £25,000 (\~$41,000) purse, has been awarded to British artists since 1984 (with a one-year hiatus in 1990), and is widely considered to be a barometric indicator of trends in the country’s art scene. Named after the 19th-century painter J.M.W. Turner, the prize, [administered by Tate Britain](http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibitionseries/turner-prize?ref=hyperallergic.com) but adjudicated by a different independent jury every year, is given to “a British artist under fifty for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the twelve months preceding.” London-based Prouvost is the sixth woman to win the award since its inception, though there have been several all-female shortlists.

The Turner Prize exhibition is on display at the Ebrington Barracks in Londonderry [through January 5](http://www.cityofculture2013.com/2013/10/turner-prize-exhibition-opens-in-uk-city-of-culture-2013/?ref=hyperallergic.com), and Prouvost has a solo show [opening February 12 at the New Museum](http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/laure-prouvost?ref=hyperallergic.com).