2011 Power 100

This year's most influential people in the contemporary artworld

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01
2010
13

Ai Weiwei

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

02
2010
02

Hans Ulrich Obrist

Artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries and instigator of global, networked art projects

03
2010
05

Glenn D. Lowry

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

04
2010
01

Larry Gagosian

Global gallerist with 16 galleries and celebrity artists

05
2010
16

Anton Vidokle, Julieta Aranda & Brian Kuan Wood

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

06
2010
07

Nicholas Serota

Director of Tate

07
2010
27

Cindy Sherman

Stalwart of the Pictures Generation

08
2010
03

Iwan & Manuela Wirth

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

09
2010
04

David Zwirner

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

10
2010
19

Beatrix Ruf

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

11
2010
55

Gerhard Richter

One of the most important painters of our times

12
2010
15

Alfred Pacquement

Director of Centre Pompidou, recently established the Pompidou-Metz

13
2010
11

Adam D. Weinberg

Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art

14
2010
65

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

Director of Castello di Rivoli

15
2010
18

Marc Glimcher

President of the international Pace Gallery

16

Klaus Biesenbach

Outgoing from MoMA, incoming at MOCA

17
2010
08

Eli Broad

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

18
2010
09

RoseLee Goldberg

Founder and director of New York-based performance biennial Performa

19
2010
10

François Pinault

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

20

Annette Schönholzer & Marc Spiegler

Directors of Art Basel

21
2010
26

Mike Kelley

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

22
2010
24

Barbara Gladstone

American gallerist with spaces in New York and Brussels

23
2010
35

Marina Abramović

Celebrity-status performance artist

24
2010
41

Matthew Slotover, Amanda Sharp & Victoria Siddall

The two founders of the Frieze art fairs and their director

25
2010
40

Patricia Phelps de Cisneros

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

26
2010
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

27
2010
22

Marian Goodman

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

28
2010
31

Peter Fischli & David Weiss

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

29
2010
36

Bernard Arnault

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

30
2010
48

Nicholas Logsdail

Stalwart London gallerist

31
2010
25

Jay Jopling

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

32

Liam Gillick

Artist, writer, critic, teacher, networker

33
2010
52

Ann Philbin

Director of the Hammer Museum

34
2010
20

Dominique Lévy & Robert Mnuchin

Gallerists, recently opened their new gallery in LA

35
2010
37

Victor Pinchuk

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

36
2010
29

Franz West

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

37
2010
45

Maja Hoffmann

Collector, patron, founder of LUMA Foundation

38
2010
14

Agnes Gund

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

39
2010
33

Tim Blum & Jeff Poe

LA-based gallerists with New York and Tokyo branches

40
2010
28

Dakis Joannou

Collector behind the nonprofit Athens institution the DESTE Foundation

41

Rosemarie Trockel

One of the most persuasive feminist artists working today

42
2010
21

Iwona Blazwick

Director of Whitechapel Gallery

43
2010
58

Udo Kittelmann

Director of Berlin’s Nationalgalerie

44
2010
46

Monika Sprüth & Philomene Magers

London, Berlin and LA-based gallerists championing women artists

45
2010
57

Matthew Marks

Gallerist with spaces in New York and LA

46
2010
30

Gavin Brown

British-born gallerist now hopping between Harlem and Rome

48
2010
12

Jeffrey Deitch

Director of LA MOCA

49

Adam Szymczyk

Artistic director of Documenta 14

50
2010
62

Anish Kapoor

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

51
2010
54

Emmanuel Perrotin

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

52
2010
42

Okwui Enwezor

Curator of the Venice Biennale in 2015

53
2010
70

Boris Groys

Russian art historian, curator and critic

54

Artur Zmijewski

Artist and activist; Director of next year's Berlin Biennale

55

Michael Morris & James Lingwood

Founders and directors of Artangel

56

William Wells & Yasser Gerab

Directors of Townhouse Gallery in Egypt

57
2010
34

Anne Pasternak

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

58
2010
59

Michael Ringier

Collector and founder of Ringier publishing empire

59

Steve McQueen

Artist-turned-film-director-turned-artist

60
2010
49

Sadie Coles

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

61
2010
61

Daniel Buchholz

Cologne, Berlin and New York-based gallerist making careers

62
2010
64

Toby Webster

The magician of the Glasgow miracle

63
2010
67

Germano Celant

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

64
2010
53

Damien Hirst

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

65

Slavoj Zizek

Critic and theoretician

66
2010
47

Jeff Koons

Omnipresent neoliberal Pop artist and 'Balloon Dog' millionaire

67
2010
72

Thaddaeus Ropac

Austrian gallerist with spaces in Paris, Salzburg and London

68
2010
50

Brett Gorvy & Amy Cappellazzo

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

69
2010
51

Tobias Meyer & Cheyenne Westphal

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

70
2010
86

Chang Tsong-zung & Claire Hsu

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

71
2010
79

Yana Peel & Candida Gertler

Founders of Outset

72
2010
95

Christine Tohmé

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

73
2010
98

Richard Chang

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

74
2010
71

Helga de Alvear

German Spanish-based collector and gallerist

75

Walid Raad

Artist whose work uses fiction to reflect on the conflicts of the Middle East

76

Bernardo Paz

Founder of Inhotim, 2,000-hectares of art and botany in Brazilian mining country

77
2010
82

Tim Neuger & Burkhard Riemschneider

Gallerists behind Berlin's understated but heavy-hitting Neugerriemschneider

78
2010
77

Massimo De Carlo

Italian gallerist with spaces in Milan, London and Hong Kong

79
2010
83

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

80
2010
91

Massimiliano Gioni

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

81

Dasha Zhukova

Founder of Moscow's private art foundation the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture

82

Vasif Kortun

Curator spearheading the Turkish art scene

83

David Hammons

Elusively influential artist gaming the artworld

84

Philip Tinari

Director of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (84 in 2011)

85

Miuccia Prada

Collector, fashion house designer and head of the Fondazione Prada complex in Milan

86

Shirin Neshat

Iranian artist

87

Jason, Jennifer, Mera & Don Rubell

The collectors family

88

Christoph Büchel

Swiss installation artist

89

Elena Filipovic

Dynamic director of Kunsthalle Basel

90

Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani & Sheikh Saud bin Muhammad bin Ali Al-Thani

Collectors, Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani is chair of the Qatar Museums Authority

91
2010
78

Maureen Paley

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

92
2010
66

Christian Boros & Karen Lohmann

Collectors power-couple

93
2010
74

Victoria Miro

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

94
2010
76

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

95

Kaja Silverman

Critic and theoretician

96
2010
84

Johann König

Berlin-based gallerist

97
2010
93

Nicolai Wallner

Danish gallerist

98

Franco Noero

Turin-based gallerist

99

Leonid Mikhelson

Collector and founder of Victoria – the Art of Being Contemporary, for the promotion of post-avant-garde Russian art

100
2010
96

Gregor Podnar

Berlin-based gallerist

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