Power 100 / ArtReview

01

2009
05

Larry Gagosian

Global gallerist with 16 galleries and celebrity artists

02

2009
01

Hans Ulrich Obrist

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

03

2009
11

Iwan & Manuela Wirth

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

04

2009
12

David Zwirner

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

05

2009
02

Glenn D. Lowry

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

06

Bice Curiger

One of Parkett magazine’s founders, publishing director of Tate Etc. Curator at Zurich Kunsthaus since 1993, and curator of the 2011 Venice Biennale

07

2009
03

Sir Nicholas Serota

Director of Tate Modern

08

2009
07

Eli Broad

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

09

2009
59

RoseLee Goldberg

Founder and director of New York-based performance biennial Performa

10

2009
06

François Pinault

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

11

2009
24

Adam D. Weinberg

Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art

12

Jeffrey Deitch

Director of LA MOCA

13

2009
43

Ai Weiwei

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

14

2009
16

Agnes Gund

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

15

2009
18

Alfred Pacquement

Director of Centre Pompidou, recently established the Pompidou-Metz

16

2009
08

Anton Vidokle, Julieta Aranda & Brian Kuan Wood

Founders of the e-flux website, journal and other projects

17

2009
10

Bruce Nauman

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

18

2009
25

Marc Glimcher

President of the international Pace Gallery

19

2009
66

Beatrix Ruf

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

20

2009
23

Dominique Lévy & Robert Mnuchin

Gallerists, recently opened their new gallery in LA

21

2009
09

Iwona Blazwick

Director of Whitechapel Gallery

22

2009
15

Marian Goodman

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

23

Marc Spiegler & Annette Schönholzer

Directors of Art Basel

24

2009
21

Barbara Gladstone

American gallerist with spaces in New York and Brussels

25

2009
14

Jay Jopling

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

26

2009
20

Mike Kelley

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

27

2009
42

Cindy Sherman

Stalwart of the Pictures Generation

28

2009
36

Dakis Joannou

Collector behind the nonprofit Athens institution the DESTE Foundation

29

Franz West

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

30

2009
32

Gavin Brown

British-born gallerist now hopping between Harlem and Rome

31

2009
19

Peter Fischli & David Weiss

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

32

2009
22

Steven A. Cohen

One of the world’s most active art collectors

33

2009
31

Tim Blum & Jeff Poe

LA-based gallerists with New York and Tokyo branches

34

2009
35

Anne Pasternak

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

35

2009
55

Marina Abramović

Celebrity-status performance artist

36

2009
49

Bernard Arnault

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

37

2009
53

Victor Pinchuk

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

38

2009
41

Eugenio López

Collector and founder of the largest private museum in Latin America

39

2009
17

Takashi Murakami

Multi-role fufilling Japanese artist

40

2009
44

Patricia Phelps de Cisneros

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

41

2009
51

Matthew Slotover, Amanda Sharp & Victoria Siddall

The two founders of the Frieze art fairs and their director

42

2009
67

Okwui Enwezor

Curator of the Venice Biennale in 2015

43

2009
29

Matthew Higgs

Artist, critic, curator and director of White Columns

44

Tino Sehgal

The artist who never makes a thing

45

Maja Hoffmann

Collector, patron, founder of LUMA Foundation

46

2009
62

Monika Sprüth & Philomene Magers

London, Berlin and LA-based gallerists championing women artists

47

2009
13

Jeff Koons

Omnipresent neoliberal Pop artist and 'Balloon Dog' millionaire

48

2009
96

Nicholas Logsdail

Stalwart London gallerist

49

2009
84

Sadie Coles

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

50

Brett Gorvy & Amy Cappellazzo

Christie’s international Co-heads of Post-War & Contemporary Art Department

51

Tobias Meyer & Cheyenne Westphal

Sotheby's worldwide head of contemporary art and chairman of contemporary art Europe

52

2009
28

Ann Philbin

Director of the Hammer Museum

53

2009
48

Damien Hirst

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

54

2009
64

Emmanuel Perrotin

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

55

2009
57

Gerhard Richter

One of the most important painters of our times

56

2009
68

Nicolas Bourriaud

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

57

2009
30

Matthew Marks

Gallerist with spaces in New York and LA

58

2009
54

Udo Kittelmann

Director of Berlin’s Nationalgalerie

59

2009
56

Michael Ringier

Collector and founder of Ringier publishing empire

60

2009
60

Kasper König

Director of Cologne’s Museum Ludwig

61

2009
85

Daniel Buchholz

Cologne, Berlin and New York-based gallerist making careers

62

Anish Kapoor

The superartist will shine brighter with his new commission to design the ‘iconic’ landmark for the 2012 Olympic site

63

2009
04

Daniel Birnbaum

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

64

2009
94

Toby Webster

The magician of the Glasgow miracle

65

2009
80

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

Director of Castello di Rivoli

66

Christian Boros & Karen Lohmann

Collectors power-couple

67

2009
63

Germano Celant

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

68

2009
71

Maurizio Cattelan

Italian artist and notorious prankster

69

Neo Rauch

The German painter had two simultaneous large scale retrospectives in Germany this year

70

Boris Groys

Russian art historian, curator and critic

71

Helga de Alvear

German Spanish-based collector and gallerist

72

2009
76

Thaddaeus Ropac

Austrian gallerist with spaces in Paris, Salzburg and London

73

2009
33

Ralph Rugoff

Director of Hayward Gallery and curator of Venice Biennale 2019

74

2009
86

Victoria Miro

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

75

2009
73

Jerry Saltz

Art critic of The New York Magazine

76

2009
81

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

77

2009
91

Massimo De Carlo

Italian gallerist with spaces in Milan, London and Hong Kong

78

2009
87

Maureen Paley

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

79

Yana Peel & Candida Gertler

Founders of Outset

80

2009
61

Roberta Smith

Senior art critic of the New York Times

81

2009
72

Charles Saatchi

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

82

Tim Neuger & Burkhard Riemschneider

Gallerists behind Berlin's understated but heavy-hitting Neugerriemschneider

83

2009
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

84

2009
88

Johann König

Berlin-based gallerist

85

Caroline Schneider

86

2009
98

Johnson Chang Tsong-zung & Claire Hsu

Founders of the Hong Kong-based Asia Art Archive (AAA)

87

Dimitris Daskalopoulos

Athens-born entrepreneur, founder of nonprofit organisation NEON and recipient of the 2014 edition of the Leo Award

88

2009
93

Rirkrit Tiravanija

Artist who favours relations over objects

89

Wolfgang Tillmans

Celebrated photographer and ‘artistic statesman’

90

H.H. Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi & Jack Persekian

91

2009
50

Massimiliano Gioni

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

92

Magnus Renfrew

Director of Art Hong Kong

93

2009
89

Nicolai Wallner

Danish gallerist

94

Stefan Kalmár

Director of London’s Institute of Contemporary Art

95

Christine Tohmé

Director of the Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts and curator of 13th Sharjah Biennial

96

Gregor Podnar

Berlin-based gallerist

97

Elizabeth Dee

New York-based gallerist

98

Richard Chang

Collector of Western and Asian art and key broker of ties between the two artistic communities

99

Bruce High Quality Foundation

Amorphous artists collective with fingers in many pies

100

Margot Heller

Director of The South London Gallery