The Guggenheim Foundation and Hugo Boss announced the short list for the
2010 Hugo Boss Prize (established in 1996 and awarded biennially) on 9 October. The six finalists are Cao Fei (b. 1978, China), Hans-Peter Feldmann (b. 1941, Germany), Natascha Sadr Haghighian (b. 1953, Iran), Roman Ondak (b. 1966, Czechoslovakia), Walid Raad (b. 1967, Lebanon), and Apichatpong Weerasethakul (b. 1970, Thailand). A publication introducing all six finalists will be published in June 2010. The prizewinner will be announced in autumn 2010, and the artist’s work will be presented in an exhibition in 2011 at the Guggenheim Museum, New York.
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