2009 Power 100
This year's most influential people in the contemporary artworld
35
Hans Ulrich Obrist
Co-director of the Serpentine Galleries, and the initiator of numerous international art projects and exhibitions
04
Sir Nicholas Serota
Director of Tate Modern
13
Daniel Birnbaum
Curator of the attendance record-breaking Venice Biennale in 2009 and now Director of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm
Anton Vidokle, Julieta Aranda & Brian Kuan Wood
45
Bruce Nauman
Mexico-based artist, winner of the Golden Lion prize in last year's Venice Biennale
24
Alfred Pacquement
Director of Centre Pompidou, recently established the Pompidou-Metz
12
Steven A. Cohen
One of the world’s most active art collectors
Dominique Lévy & Robert Mnuchin
Amy Cappellazzo & Brett Gorvy
Cheyenne Westphal & Tobias Meyer
31
Dakis Joannou
Collector behind the nonprofit Athens institution the DESTE Foundation
62
Paul McCarthy
Diedrich Diederichsen
19
Richard Prince
Joel Wachs
Udo Kittelmann
Director of Berlin’s Nationalgalerie
33
Richard Serra
Kasper König
Director of Cologne’s Museum Ludwig
71
Roberta Smith
Senior art critic of the New York Times
Monika Sprüth & Philomene Magers
London, Berlin and LA-based gallerists championing women artists
72
Peter Schjeldahl
90
Karen & Christian Boros
Isabelle Graw
68
Maurizio Cattelan
Italian artist and notorious prankster
14
Charles Saatchi
Collector and recently the author of an art-school reality show contest
79
Jerry Saltz
Art critic of The New York Magazine
09
Jasper Johns
81
Louise Bourgeois
Mera & Don Rubell
Sarah Morris
40
Paul Schimmel
Jose, Alberto & David Mugrabi
Maria Lind
Long March Space
51
Harry Blain & Graham Southern
95