Degussa Goldhandel and Monopol Magazin used the opening of Frieze London to present the shortlist for the third edition of their Young Generation Art Award, the €10,000 prize for artists under 35 that has become one of Germany's most-watched newcomer honors. Five artists were selected from nearly 600 international applications submitted to this year's open call: Hope Bartley, Joanna Chia-yu Lin, Pierre-Yves Delannoy, Joana Loewis, and Louisa Pieper. Each shortlisted artist also receives €3,000.

The five span four countries of origin and a spread of European academies. Hope Bartley, born 1993 in Kingston, Jamaica, studied at the Caribbean School of Architecture and the Bauhaus Dessau and now works in Munich. Joanna Chia-yu Lin, born 1995 in Taiwan, studied art in Taipei and at the Oslo National Academy of Fine Arts and divides her time between Norway and Taiwan. Pierre-Yves Delannoy, born 1995 in Châlons-sur-Marne, France, studied art and architecture in Paris, Versailles, and Munich, finishing in 2025 as a master student of Julian Rosefeldt at the Munich Academy. Joana Loewis, born 1996, also graduated from the Munich Academy, completing her master class with Gregor Hildebrandt in 2026, and works south of Munich. Louisa Pieper, born 1997 in Germany, studied at Burg Giebichenstein in Halle and the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts, where she is now based.

A three-person jury — Museum Ludwig Cologne director Yilmaz Dziewior, Degussa curator Maya Heckelmann, and Monopol editor-in-chief Elke Buhr — will choose the winner in early 2027. The shortlisted artists will be profiled in the November issue of Monopol, and their works will hang together from November 27 in a group exhibition at Degussa's Berlin-Mitte branch on Französische Straße 48. The award's 2026 winner, Ken Nwadiogbu, whose work convinced last year's jury, is showing a solo presentation in the Degussa lounge at Frieze London through Sunday.