2012 Power 100

This year's most influential people in the contemporary artworld

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01
2011
14

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

Director of Castello di Rivoli

02
2011
04

Larry Gagosian

Global gallerist with 16 galleries and celebrity artists

03
2011
01

Ai Weiwei

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

04
2011
08

Iwan & Manuela Wirth

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

05
2011
09

David Zwirner

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

06
2011
11

Gerhard Richter

One of the most important painters of our times

07
2011
10

Beatrix Ruf

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

08
2011
06

Nicholas Serota

Director of Tate

09
2011
03

Glenn D. Lowry

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

10
2011
02

Hans Ulrich Obrist

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

11
2011
90

Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani

Head of the Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) and sister of the Emir

12
2011
05

Anton Vidokle, Julieta Aranda & Brian Kuan Wood (e-flux)

Artists collective, founders of e-flux website

13
2011
07

Cindy Sherman

Stalwart of the Pictures Generation

14
2011
12

Alain Seban & Alfred Pacquement

President and Director of Pompidou Centre, Paris

15
2011
13

Adam D. Weinberg

Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art

16

Annette Schönholzer, Marc Spiegler & Magnus Renfrew

Directors of Art Basel

17
2011
15

Marc Glimcher

President of the international Pace Gallery

18
2011
27

Marian Goodman

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

19
2011
80

Massimiliano Gioni

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

20
2011
31

Jay Jopling

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

21
2011
19

François Pinault

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

22
2011
16

Klaus Biesenbach

Outgoing from MoMA, incoming at MOCA

23
2011
24

Matthew Slotover, Amanda Sharp & Victoria Siddall

The two founders of the Frieze art fairs and their director

24
2011
22

Barbara Gladstone

American gallerist with spaces in New York and Brussels

25
2011
18

RoseLee Goldberg

Founder and director of New York-based performance biennial Performa

26

Eli & Edythe Broad

Super-collectors, super-patrons, founders of The Broad

27
2011
25

Patricia Phelps de Cisneros

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

28
2011
29

Bernard Arnault

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

29
2011
30

Nicholas Logsdail

Stalwart London gallerist

30
2011
32

Liam Gillick

Artist, writer, critic, teacher, networker

31
2011
33

Ann Philbin

Director of the Hammer Museum

32
2011
35

Victor Pinchuk

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

33
2011
37

Maja Hoffmann

Collector, patron, founder of LUMA Foundation

34
2011
39

Tim Blum & Jeff Poe

LA-based gallerists with New York and Tokyo branches

35
2011
23

Marina Abramović

Celebrity-status performance artist

36
2011
40

Dakis Joannou

Collector behind the nonprofit Athens institution the DESTE Foundation

37
2011
43

Udo Kittelmann

Director of Berlin’s Nationalgalerie

38
2011
44

Monika Sprüth & Philomene Magers

London, Berlin and LA-based gallerists championing women artists

39
2011
45

Matthew Marks

Gallerist with spaces in New York and LA

40
2011
46

Gavin Brown

British-born gallerist now hopping between Harlem and Rome

41
2011
64

Damien Hirst

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

42
2011
41

Rosemarie Trockel

One of the most persuasive feminist artists working today

43

Wolfgang Tillmans

Celebrated photographer and ‘artistic statesman’

44
2011
38

Agnes Gund

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

45

Chus Martínez

Head of department and member of core agent group of Documenta 13, Previously Chief Curator at MACBA, Barcelona, Director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein, and Artistic Director of Sala Rekalde, Bilbao

46

Isa Genzken

Mainstay artist and an enduring influence on younger generations

47
2011
42

Iwona Blazwick

Director of Whitechapel Gallery

48
2011
57

Anne Pasternak

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

49
2011
60

Sadie Coles

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

50
2011
61

Daniel Buchholz

Cologne, Berlin and New York-based gallerist making careers

51
2011
62

Toby Webster

The magician of the Glasgow miracle

52
2011
49

Adam Szymczyk

Artistic director of Documenta 14

53

James Lingwood & Michael Morris

Directors and Founders of Artangel

54
2011
56

William Wells & Yasser Gerab

Directors of Townhouse Gallery in Egypt

55
2011
58

Michael Ringier

Collector and founder of Ringier publishing empire

56

Theaster Gates

The artist who does more outside the gallery than within

57

Pussy Riot

Russian punk band/performance artists/activists, two of whom also belong to the anarchic Voina art collective

58
2011
66

Jeff Koons

Omnipresent neoliberal Pop artist and 'Balloon Dog' millionaire

59
2011
59

Steve McQueen

Artist-turned-film-director-turned-artist

61
2011
53

Boris Groys

Russian art historian, curator and critic

62
2011
51

Emmanuel Perrotin

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

63
2011
73

Richard Chang

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

64
2011
77

Tim Neuger & Burkhard Riemschneider

Gallerists behind Berlin's understated but heavy-hitting Neugerriemschneider

65
2011
65

Slavoj Zizek

Critic and theoretician

66
2011
67

Thaddaeus Ropac

Austrian gallerist with spaces in Paris, Salzburg and London

67
2011
70

Chang Tsong-zung

Collector, gallerist, curator and pioneer in championing in contemporary Chinese art

68
2011
89

Elena Filipovic

Dynamic director of Kunsthalle Basel

69

Tino Sehgal

The artist who never makes a thing

70
2011
92

Christian Boros & Karen Lohmann

Collectors power-couple

71

Luisa Strina

Venerable Brazilian gallerist, with her own art fair

72
2011
70

Claire Hsu

Cofounder of Asia Art Archive

73

José Kuri & Mónica Manzutto

Founders of Kurimanzutto Gallery, Mexico City

74
2011
68

Brett Gorvy & Amy Cappellazzo

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

75
2011
69

Tobias Meyer & Cheyenne Westphal

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

76

Budi Tek

Chinese-Indonesian collector, founder of the Yuz Foundation

77
2011
75

Walid Raad

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

78

Cuauhtémoc Medina

Curator of Manifesta 9, previously associate curator of Latin American Art at Tate Modern

79
2011
78

Massimo De Carlo

Italian gallerist with spaces in Milan, London and Hong Kong

80
2011
76

Bernardo Paz

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

81
2011
72

Christine Tohmé

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

82
2011
79

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

83

John Baldessari

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

84

Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi

President of the Sharjah Art Foundation and International Biennial Association

85
2011
81

Dasha Zhukova

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

86
2011
82

Vasif Kortun

Curator spearheading the Turkish art scene

87
2011
94

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

88
2011
71

Candida Gertler

Cofounder and Director of Outset

89

Gisela Capitain

Gallerist

90

Carol Greene

New York-based gallerist

91
2011
98

Franco Noero & Pierpaolo Falone

Turin-based gallerists with a talent for combining national and international artists, and commerce and credibility

92

Jacques Rancière

French critic

93
2011
85

Miuccia Prada

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

94
2011
91

Maureen Paley

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

95

Don, Mera, Jason & Jennifer Rubell

Collectors family

96

Paul Chan

Artist, activist and publisher

97
2011
93

Victoria Miro

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

98

Adriano Pedrosa

Artistic director of Museu de Arte de São Paulo and prominent curatorial for Brazil abroad

99
2011
96

Johann König

Berlin-based gallerist

100
2011
100

Gregor Podnar

Berlin-based gallerist

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