2009 Power 100

This year's most influential people in the contemporary artworld

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01
2008
35

Hans Ulrich Obrist

Co-director of the Serpentine Galleries, and the initiator of numerous international art projects and exhibitions

02

Glenn D. Lowry

Director of Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York

03
2008
04

Sir Nicholas Serota

Director of Tate Modern

04
2008
13

Daniel Birnbaum

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

05
2008
02

Larry Gagosian

Global gallerist with 16 galleries and celebrity artists

06
2008
08

François Pinault

Collector and founder of the Pinault Collection, with two venues in Venice, working on a major new Paris building

07
2008
10

Eli Broad

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

08

Anton Vidokle, Julieta Aranda & Brian Kuan Wood

09
2008
76

Iwona Blazwick

Director of Whitechapel Gallery

10
2008
45

Bruce Nauman

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

11
2008
05

Iwan & Manuela Wirth

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

12
2008
07

David Zwirner

The head of an expanding New York, London and Hong Kong gallery empire

13
2008
11

Jeff Koons

Omnipresent neoliberal Pop artist and 'Balloon Dog' millionaire

14
2008
06

Jay Jopling

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

15
2008
17

Marian Goodman

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

16
2008
29

Agnes Gund

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

18
2008
24

Alfred Pacquement

Director of Centre Pompidou, recently established the Pompidou-Metz

19

Peter Fischli & David Weiss

Swiss artists duo, winners of the prestigious Wolfgang Hahn Prize for their knife-edge witty practice

20
2008
61

Mike Kelley

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

21
2008
26

Barbara Gladstone

American gallerist with spaces in New York and Brussels

22
2008
12

Steven A. Cohen

One of the world’s most active art collectors

23

Dominique Lévy & Robert Mnuchin

24

Adam D. Weinberg

Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art

25
2008
22

Marc Glimcher

President of the international Pace Gallery

26

Amy Cappellazzo & Brett Gorvy

27

Cheyenne Westphal & Tobias Meyer

28
2008
39

Ann Philbin

Director of the Hammer Museum

29

Matthew Higgs

Artist, critic, curator and director of White Columns

30
2008
27

Matthew Marks

Gallerist with spaces in New York and LA

31

Tim Blum & Jeff Poe

LA-based gallerists with New York and Tokyo branches

32
2008
57

Gavin Brown

British-born gallerist now hopping between Harlem and Rome

33
2008
74

Ralph Rugoff

Director of Hayward Gallery and curator of Venice Biennale 2019

34
2008
86

Liam Gillick

Artist, writer, critic, teacher, networker

35

Anne Pasternak

President and artistic director of New York's art-commisioning powerhouse Creative Time

36
2008
31

Dakis Joannou

Collector behind the nonprofit Athens institution the DESTE Foundation

37
2008
88

John Baldessari

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

38

Isa Genzken

Mainstay artist and an enduring influence on younger generations

39
2008
62

Paul McCarthy

40
2008
21

Michael Govan

Director of Los Angeles County Museum of Art

41

Eugenio López

Collector and founder of the largest private museum in Latin America

42
2008
82

Cindy Sherman

Stalwart of the Pictures Generation

43
2008
47

Ai Weiwei

Artist and activist, prominent in reconnecting art with flashpoint social and political issues

44
2008
41

Patricia Phelps de Cisneros

Collector and patron with peerless holdings of modern and contemporary Latin American art

45
2008
23

Annette Schönholzer & Marc Spiegler

Directors of Art Basel

46

Diedrich Diederichsen

47
2008
19

Richard Prince

48
2008
01

Damien Hirst

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

49
2008
32

Bernard Arnault

Collector and patron of art and founder of the Fondation Louis Vuitton

50
2008
78

Massimiliano Gioni

Ebullient director of the Trussardi Foundation and artistic director of New York’s New Museum

51
2008
25

Matthew Slotover, Amanda Sharp & Victoria Siddall

The two founders of the Frieze art fairs and their director

52

Joel Wachs

53
2008
67

Victor Pinchuk

Ukrainian collector and founder of the Pinchuk Art Centre and Future Generation Art Prize

54

Udo Kittelmann

Director of Berlin’s Nationalgalerie

55

Marina Abramović

Celebrity-status performance artist

56
2008
42

Michael Ringier

Collector and founder of Ringier publishing empire

57
2008
18

Gerhard Richter

One of the most important painters of our times

58
2008
33

Richard Serra

59

RoseLee Goldberg

Founder and director of New York-based performance biennial Performa

60

Kasper König

Director of Cologne’s Museum Ludwig

61
2008
71

Roberta Smith

Senior art critic of the New York Times

62

Monika Sprüth & Philomene Magers

London, Berlin and LA-based gallerists championing women artists

63

Germano Celant

Senior curator at the Guggenheim museum and director of the Prada Foundation

64
2008
64

Emmanuel Perrotin

Gallerist with branches in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong and Shanghai

65
2008
72

Peter Schjeldahl

66

Beatrix Ruf

Tireless curator and adviser, ex-director of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

67
2008
83

Okwui Enwezor

Curator of the Venice Biennale in 2015

68

Nicolas Bourriaud

Director of Paris’s Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, and father of the omnipresent relational aesthetics movement

69
2008
90

Karen & Christian Boros

70

Isabelle Graw

71
2008
68

Maurizio Cattelan

Italian artist and notorious prankster

72
2008
14

Charles Saatchi

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

73
2008
79

Jerry Saltz

Art critic of The New York Magazine

74
2008
09

Jasper Johns

75
2008
81

Louise Bourgeois

76

Thaddaeus Ropac

Austrian gallerist with spaces in Paris, Salzburg and London

77

Mera & Don Rubell

78
2008
73

Thelma Golden

Director of the Studio Museum in Harlem

79

Sarah Morris

80

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

Director of Castello di Rivoli

81
2008
97

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

82
2008
40

Paul Schimmel

83

Jose, Alberto & David Mugrabi

84
2008
34

Sadie Coles

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

85

Daniel Buchholz

Cologne, Berlin and New York-based gallerist making careers

86
2008
58

Victoria Miro

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

87
2008
70

Maureen Paley

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

88

Johann König

Berlin-based gallerist

89

Nicolai Wallner

Danish gallerist

90

Maria Lind

91

Massimo De Carlo

Italian gallerist with spaces in Milan, London and Hong Kong

92

Mario Cristiani, Lorenzo Fiaschi & Maurizio Rigillo

Italian gallerists with four spaces in four different countries and a roster of big name artists on their books

93

Rirkrit Tiravanija

Artist who favours relations over objects

94

Toby Webster

The magician of the Glasgow miracle

95

Long March Space

96
2008
91

Nicholas Logsdail

Stalwart London gallerist

97
2008
51

Harry Blain & Graham Southern

98

Claire Hsu

Cofounder of Asia Art Archive

99
2008
95

Peter Nagy

100

Glenn Beck

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