Poland-born, London-based Goshka Macuga had her first major solo show in 2004 at London’s Gasworks gallery. Macuga creates installations that often arrange a variety of objects — souvenirs, books, archival materials, artworks (her own and other artists’) — together, questioning the roles of the curator, archivist, artist, and collector and earning the label “cultural archaeology.” For her exhibition “The Sleep of Ulro” at the A Foundation of Liverpool’s Greenland Street arts center, she created a comprehensive installation based on set designs for the Expressionist film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919).

Selections of all of the artists’ work will be on view in an exhibition at Tate Britain from September 30, 2008, through Jaunary 19, 2009, and the winner, who will receive £25,000 pounds — the three remaining artists receive £5,000 each — will be announced on December 1.

Click on the photo gallery above to see work from each of this year’s shortlisted artists.