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Most influential people in 2023 in the contemporary artworld

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Agnes Denes

Artist - Iconic figure in ecological art since the 1960s

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Courtesy Leslie Tonkonow

An iconic figure in ecological art since the 1960s, and becoming even better known with Wheatfield (1982), a field grown on nearly a hectare of landfill in Lower Manhattan, then worth $4.5bn, Denes has seen the importance of her message increase as the climate emergency intensifies. With solo shows at Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, and ACB Galéria, Budapest, she has also been featured in a vast list of environmentally minded surveys: Extreme Tension (2023), at Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; How is Life? (2022), at Toto Gallery Ma, Tokyo; Groundswell: Women of Land Art (2023), at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas; and Dear Earth (2023), at the Hayward Gallery, London, to name a few. Her work extends into considerations of data, technology and artificial intelligence – yet again ahead of the curve, with large coding and AI-themed group exhibitions at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark and LA’s LACMA to round out her pervasive exhibition presence this year, while she is set to unveil a new work in the AlUla desert in Saudi Arabia next year.

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