With a string of solo exhibitions under his belt, Hans-Peter Feldmann is concerned with the phenomena of visual culture.

德国艺术家汉斯-彼得·费尔德曼昨晚在纽约古根海姆博物馆举行的颁奖典礼上被宣布为第八届雨果·博斯艺术奖得主。费尔德曼在杜塞尔多夫生活和工作，他探索视觉文化现象。他创建了一些装置，在这些装置中，从不同的商业和家庭来源收集的图像和日常物品以精心设计的环境或系列形式组合在一起。该奖与古根海姆基金会合作，表彰那些突破当代艺术界限创造新视角的艺术家。值得赞扬的是，该奖项没有对年龄、性别、国籍或媒体施加任何限制。过去的获奖者包括马修·巴尼、道格拉斯·戈登(1998年)和Marjetica Potrč。

Feldmann creates installations in which images and everyday objects - collected from different commercial and domestic sources - are put together in carefully constructed settings or forms.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul currently lives and works in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He produces expressive, lyrical films, using various narrative devices in both feature-length and short forms.

Cao Fei was born in 1978 in Guangzhou, China. He uses photographs, videos, performances and new-media to examine the rapid evolution of Chinese society.

Created by Cao Fei, RMB City is an online virtual reality city. This work is an example of the artist's preoccupation with the growing cultural trends in Chinese society, such as costumed role-play and online communities.

As a highly conceptual artist, Natascha Sadr Haghighian looks to discourage the view of the artist as a creative genius.

'Good Feelings in Good Times' (2003) by Roman Ondák is part of London's Tate Collection.

Through the process of collaboration, Natascha Sadr Haghighian encourages the communal nature or collectivity of artistic work.

Lebanon-born artist Walid Raad now lives and works in Beirut and New York.

Often including the viewer in his creative process, Roman Ondák uses performative interventions in social settings to playfully comment on the absurdities of socio-cultural structures.

Primarily focused on the contemporary history of his native country, Lebanon, Walid Raad’s conceptual work explores issues of trauma, collective memory and the representation of conflict.

One of the works of Emily Jacir, winner of the 2008 Hugo Boss Prize, titled 'Memorial to 418 Palestinian Villages'.

Hugo Boss Prize 2008 winner, the Palestinian-Arab multimedia artist Emily Jacir.

Using a multimedia approach, Emily Jacir - winner of the 2008 Hugo Boss Prize - connects themes of movement, borders, displacement and belonging with the individual and national identity of Palestinians.

Thai artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul studied at Khon Kaen University and has a master of fine arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

The work of Rirkit Tiravanija, winner of the 2004 Hugo Boss Prize.

One of the works of Tacita Dean, winner of the Hugo Boss Prize  in 2006. This is a still from 'Boots' (2003) – one of three 16mm colour anamorphic films produced in English, French, and German.