The Guggenheim has announced the finalists for its biennial Hugo Boss Prize, which is awarded for achievement in contemporary art. The artists that will vie for the $100,000 award this year are Cao Fei (China), Hans-Peter Feldmann (Germany), Natascha Sadr Haghighian (Iran), Roman Ondák (the former Czechoslovakia), Walid Raad (Lebanon), and Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand). Winners will also receive an exhibition at the Guggenheim in New York in 2011.

Emily Jacir won the 2008 prize, joining a list of honorees that includes Matthew Barney, Douglas Gordon, Pierre Huyghe, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Tacita Dean. The award is selected by a team of art professionals, including Yasmil Raymond, curator of the Dia Art Foundation; Udo Kittelmann, director of the Nationalgalerie in Berlin; and Tirad Zolghadr, an independent writer and curator.

Considered one of the field's most prestigious awards, the prize is unique in that it requires no age, geographic, or medium-specific qualifications to be eligible.