LUNITA-JULY DORN | Young Generation Art Award

At the Frieze London, MONOPOL MAGAZINE, in cooperation with Degussa Goldhandel, announced the five nominees for the Young Generation Art Award 2026. The award, which promotes promising young artists in contemporary art, was launched in 2024 and presented for the first time in 2025. Degussa Goldhandel is represented at Frieze for the first time this year with the award and is showing a large solo exhibition by the first winner, Thuy Tien Nguyen, whose work impressed the jury in 2025. The new shortlist for 2026 has now been unveiled at the opening of the fair. The nominees are Yuhao Chen, Lunita-July Dorn, Arne Grashoff, Emmélie Lempert and Ken Nwadiogbu. They were selected from almost 400 submissions – an impressive sign of the great interest young artists have in the award. The five positions will be presented shortly in the November issue of Monopol and on Monopol online. From 28 November, their works will be on display in a joint exhibition at the Degussa branch in Berlin, Französische Straße 48.