2007 Power 100

This year's most influential people in the contemporary artworld

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01
2006
01

François Pinault

Collector and founder of the Pinault Collection, soon to be adding a major new venue in Paris to his two in Venice

02
2006
02

Larry Gagosian

Established gallerist with 16 venues worldwide putting on museum-quality exhibitions

03
2006
03

Nicholas Serota

Director of Tate

04
2006
04

Glenn Lowry

05
2006
06

Eli Broad

Collector of art, one of the most influential figures in the Los Angeles art scene, LA MOCA trustee

06
2006
11

Damien Hirst

Figurehead for the YBA generation with a production line in spot, spin and butterfly paintings and a sideline in collecting and publishing

07
2006
07

Charles Saatchi

Collector and recently the author of an art-school reality show contest

08
2006
19

Jay Jopling

Founder of White Cube, the home of the YBAs, now with galleries in London and Hong Kong

09
2006
32

Steven Cohen

10
2006
16

David Zwirner

The head of a New York, London and soon-to-be Hong Kong gallery empire

11
2006
05

Sam Keller [& Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, Annette Schönholzer, Marc Spiegler in 2007]

12
2006
12

Brett Gorvy [& Amy Cappellazzo in 2006]

13
2006
10

Jeff Koons

Omnipresent neoliberal Pop artist and 'Balloon Dog' millionaire

14
2006
14

Iwan & Manuela Wirth

Major gallerists with spaces in Zürich, London, New York, Los Angeles and Somerset

15
2006
33

Michael Govan

Director of Los Angeles County Museum of Art

16
2006
54

Harry Blain & Graham Southern

17
2006
08

Matthew Slotover, Amanda Sharp & Victoria Siddall

The two founders of the Frieze art fairs and their director

18

Tobias Meyer [& Cheyenne Westphal in 2006]

19
2006
73

Richard Serra

20
2006
31

Daniel Birnbaum

Curator of the attendance record-breaking Venice Biennale in 2009 and now Director of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm

21
2006
15

Marian Goodman

Established gallerist with a roster of high-profile artists and spaces in New York, Paris and London

22
2006
18

Marc Glimcher

President of the international Pace Gallery

23

David Geffen

24
2006
29

Don and Mera Rubell

25
2006
27

Dakis Joannou

Collector behind the nonprofit Athens institution the DESTE Foundation

26
2006
28

Richard Prince

27
2006
77

Matthew Marks

Gallerist with spaces in New York and LA

28

Thomas Krens [& Lisa Dennison in 2005 & 2006]

29

Lisa Phillips [& Richard Flood in 2007]

30
2006
92

Ann Philbin

Director of the Hammer Museum

31
2006
21

Paul Schimmel

32

Agnes Gund

American collector, philanthropist and hands-on patron, actively involved in cultural organisations in New York and elsewhere

33
2006
76

William Acquavella

34

Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan

35
2006
34

Simon de Pury

36
2006
24

Barbara Gladstone

American gallerist with spaces in New York and Brussels

37
2006
53

Dominique Levy and Robert Mnuchin

38
2006
58

Frank Gehry

39

The Cisneros [Patricia Phelps de Cisneros in 2007]

40

Ronald Lauder

41
2006
36

Robert Gober

42
2006
35

Sadie Coles

One of London's most established and active gallerists with a roster of nearly 50 artists

43
2006
26

Victoria Miro

Established London gallerist with major international artists and gallery spaces in East London and Mayfair

44
2006
42

Thomas Hirschhorn

Swiss artist going public

45

Chris Kennedy

46
2006
30

Donna De Salvo, Shamim Momin, Chrissie Iles

47
2006
37

Eugenio López

Collector and founder of the largest private museum in Latin America

48
2006
46

Hans Ulrich Obrist [& Julia Peyton-Jones in 2007]

49

Jerry Speyer & Katherine Farley

50
2006
17

Gerhard Richter

One of the most important painters of our times

51
2006
78

Michael Ringier

Collector and founder of Ringier publishing empire

52
2006
09

Bruce Nauman

Mexico-based artist, winner of the Golden Lion prize in last year's Venice Biennale

53
2006
22

Andreas Gursky

54
2006
40

Jeffrey Deitch

Director of LA MOCA

55
2006
38

Bruno Brunnet, Nicole Hackert & Philipp Haverkampf

56

Christian Boros

57
2006
45

Jeff Wall

58

Gary Garrels

59
2006
47

Ingvild Goetz

60
2006
55

Roberta Smith

Senior art critic of the New York Times

61
2006
57

Jerry Saltz

Art critic of The New York Magazine

62
2006
49

UBS

63
2006
50

Deutsche Bank

64

Timothy Blum & Jeffrey Poe

65

Charles Schwab

66

Adam Sender

67

Mitchell Rales

68
2006
71

Ai Weiwei

Artist and social activist, prominent in reconnecting art with issues of social and cultural value

69
2006
88

Anselm Kiefer

70

Aby Rosen

71
2006
39

Francesca von Habsburg

72

Franz West

Austrian artist, whose first European retrospective opened at the beginning of the year

73
2006
20

Mike Kelley

American artist, exposing America's creepy underbelly in his significant works

74
2006
69

Maureen Paley

Longstanding East London gallerist showing major international artists alongside the new and lesser known

75

Jose Berardo

76
2006
62

Rose & Carlos de la Cruz

77
2006
56

Herzog & de Meuron

78
2006
72

Antoine de Galbert

79
2006
80

Lisa Dennison (& Thomas Krens in 2005 & 2006)

80
2006
84

Anita & Poju Zabludowicz

Major collectors with a London-based institution, a space on Broadway in New York and a residency programme on an island in Poju’s native Finland

81

Muriel & Freddie Salem

82

Ebrahim Melamed

83
2006
25

Thelma Golden

Director of the Studio Museum in Harlem

84
2006
41

Nicholas Logsdail

Stalwart London gallerist

85

Subodh Gupta

86

Zhang Xiaogang

87

Kim Chang-il

88
2006
74

Paul McCarthy

90

John Baldessari

Senior West Coast artist, if anything more relevant than ever, after 50 years in the business

91
2006
82

Lorenz Helbling

ShanghART founder and Shanghai art scene pioneer (91 in 2007)

92

Adam Szymczyk

Artistic director of Documenta 14

93

Nikolaus Schafhausen

94
2006
70

Zach Feuer

95
2006
59

Javier Peres

96
2006
43

Iwona Blazwick

Director of Whitechapel Gallery

97

Guy & Myriam Ullens

98

Gerde Harry Lybke

99

Neville Tuli

100

Anupam Poddar

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