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Power 100

Most influential people in 2025 in the contemporary artworld

67

David Zwirner

Gallerist - Head of a gallery empire

67 in 2025

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Photo: Jason Schmidt

While profits plunged in London, back on home turf Zwirner expanded to a fourth New York site. Nevertheless these are tough times for all galleries, and accordingly the last, which opened with a show by Michael Armitage, was smaller than originally intended. In Hong Kong Zwirner mounted the first Robert Ryman show in the region; the LA space re-created Diane Arbus’s 1972 posthumous MoMA retrospective (the recreation was first shown at Zwirner New York in 2022); and in Paris the gallery opened a Gerhard Richter show parallel to the painter’s retrospective at Fondation Louis Vuitton. A key figure in the exhibition programme going forward is Ebony L. Haynes, previously founder and director of Zwirner’s affiliated space 52 Walker, now global head of curatorial projects. While Yoshitomo Nara and Gerhard Richter are two new gallery artists she will have access to, one whose work Hayes can’t currently count on displaying further is that of the late Hilma af Klint, the Swedish spiritualist’s family claiming the gallery wants to ‘plunder’ the estate, something the gallery branded ‘completely absurd’.

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