Power 100 / ArtReview

01

2012
11

Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani

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

02

2012
05

David Zwirner

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

03

2012
04

Iwan & Manuela Wirth

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

04

2012
02

Larry Gagosian

Global gallerist with 16 galleries and celebrity artists

05

2012
10

Hans Ulrich Obrist

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

06

2012
08

Nicholas Serota

Director of Tate

07

2012
07

Beatrix Ruf

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

08

2012
09

Glenn D. Lowry

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

09

2012
03

Ai Weiwei

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

10

2012
19

Massimiliano Gioni

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

11

2012
35

Marina Abramović

Celebrity-status performance artist

12

2012
14

Alain Seban & Alfred Pacquement

President and Director of Pompidou Centre, Paris

13

2012
13

Cindy Sherman

Stalwart of the Pictures Generation

14

2012
18

Marian Goodman

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

15

2012
06

Gerhard Richter

One of the most important painters of our times

16

2012
16

Marc Spiegler

Director of Art Basel art fairs

17

2012
17

Marc & Arne Glimcher

Father-and-son partnership at the head of Pace

18

2012
15

Adam D. Weinberg

Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art

19

2012
21

François Pinault

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

20

2012
01

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

Director of Castello di Rivoli

21

2012
12

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

Conduit for finding out what’s happening in the global artworld through email, publishing and exhibitions

22

2012
20

Jay Jopling

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

23

2012
22

Klaus Biesenbach

Outgoing from MoMA, incoming at MOCA

24

2012
25

RoseLee Goldberg

Founder and director of New York-based performance biennial Performa

25

2012
27

Patricia Phelps de Cisneros

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

26

2012
33

Maja Hoffmann

Collector, patron, founder of LUMA Foundation

27

2012
23

Matthew Slotover, Amanda Sharp & Victoria Siddall

The two founders of the Frieze art fairs and their director

28

2012
26

Eli & Edythe Broad

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

29

2012
24

Barbara Gladstone

American gallerist with spaces in New York and Brussels

30

2012
34

Tim Blum & Jeff Poe

LA-based gallerists with New York and Tokyo branches

31

2012
28

Bernard Arnault

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

32

2012
29

Nicholas Logsdail

Stalwart London gallerist

33

2012
38

Monika Sprüth & Philomene Magers

London, Berlin and LA-based gallerists championing women artists

34

2012
40

Gavin Brown

British-born gallerist now hopping between Harlem and Rome

35

2012
46

Isa Genzken

Mainstay artist and an enduring influence on younger generations

36

2012
59

Steve McQueen

Artist-turned-film-director-turned-artist

37

2012
36

Dakis Joannou

Collector behind the nonprofit Athens institution the DESTE Foundation

38

2012
32

Victor Pinchuk

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

39

Thomas Hirschhorn

Swiss artist going public

40

2012
56

Theaster Gates

The artist who does more outside the gallery than within

41

2012
42

Rosemarie Trockel

One of the most persuasive feminist artists working today

42

2012
30

Liam Gillick

Artist, writer, critic, teacher, networker

43

2012
44

Agnes Gund

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

44

2012
43

Wolfgang Tillmans

Celebrated photographer and ‘artistic statesman’

45

Pierre Huyghe

Conceptual artist testing the line between human and inhuman

46

2012
39

Matthew Marks

Gallerist with spaces in New York and LA

47

2012
48

Anne Pasternak

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

48

2012
84

Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi

President of the Sharjah Art Foundation and International Biennial Association

49

2012
37

Udo Kittelmann

Director of Berlin’s Nationalgalerie

50

2012
74

Brett Gorvy

Chairman and international head of Post-War and Contemporary Art, Christie's

51

2012
51

Toby Webster

The magician of the Glasgow miracle

52

2012
75

Tobias Meyer & Cheyenne Westphal

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

53

2012
55

Michael Ringier

Collector and founder of Ringier publishing empire

54

2012
69

Tino Sehgal

The artist who never makes a thing

55

2012
49

Sadie Coles

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

56

2012
58

Jeff Koons

Omnipresent neoliberal Pop artist and 'Balloon Dog' millionaire

57

Michael Govan

Director of Los Angeles County Museum of Art

58

2012
62

Emmanuel Perrotin

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

59

Eva Presenhuber

Zürich-based gallerist with a packed international schedule and a roster of artists that includes the established and the new

60

2012
50

Daniel Buchholz

Cologne, Berlin and New York-based gallerist making careers

61

2012
71

Luisa Strina

Venerable Brazilian gallerist, with her own art fair

62

2012
60

Takashi Murakami

Multi-role fufilling Japanese artist

63

2012
83

John Baldessari

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

64

Ryan Trecartin

American video artist for a hyper-mediated generation

65

2012
67

Chang Tsong-zung

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

66

Eugenio López

Collector and founder of the largest private museum in Latin America

67

Yayoi Kusama

Much-instagrammed blockbuster artist

68

2012
86

Vasif Kortun

Curator spearheading the Turkish art scene

69

Hito Steyerl

Artist-as-theorist, theorist-as-artist

70

2012
63

Richard Chang

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

71

2012
66

Thaddaeus Ropac

Austrian gallerist with spaces in Paris, Salzburg and London

72

2012
64

Tim Neuger & Burkhard Riemschneider

Gallerists behind Berlin's understated but heavy-hitting Neugerriemschneider

73

Lars Nittve

Overseer of the construction and collection of Hong Kong's forthcoming major new Museum M+, and formerly inaugural director of Tate Modern

74

2012
73

José Kuri & Mónica Manzutto

Founders of Kurimanzutto Gallery, Mexico City

75

2012
80

Bernardo Paz

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

76

2012
72

Claire Hsu

Cofounder of Asia Art Archive

77

2012
79

Massimo De Carlo

Italian gallerist with spaces in Milan, London and Hong Kong

78

Städelschule

The Frankfurt school

79

2012
76

Budi Tek

Chinese-Indonesian collector, founder of the Yuz Foundation

80

Bard College

Art School, Annandale-on-Hudson

81

Quentin Meillassoux, Graham Harman, Ray Brassier & Iain Hamilton Grant / Speculative Realism

Philosophical movement rethinking assumptions about the relationship of the subject to the world

82

Mark Leckey

The artist whose technological enquiries into the the nature of objects have had a powerful influence on a younger generation of digital natives

83

Zeng Fanzhi

Currently China's highest-selling artist, with plans for his own museum showcasing Western and Chinese figurative art

84

2012
70

Christian & Karen Boros

Collectors who curate and show their works in a converted concrete bunker, also involved in publishing and artfair VIP programming

85

2012
82

Mario Cristiani, Lorenzo Fiaschi, Maurizio Rigillo

Trio behind Galleria Continua, with spaces in the Tuscan town of San Gimignano, Les Moulins west of Paris, Beijing and now Havana

86

2012
85

Dasha Zhukova

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

87

Nicolas Bourriaud

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

88

2012
97

Victoria Miro

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

89

Sean Kelly

New York gallery making an impact with a crowd-pleasing programme and a focus on live and durational art

90

2012
91

Franco Noero & Pierpaolo Falone

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

91

Zhang Wei/Vitamin Creative Space

Cofounder of the multidisciplinary Vitamin Creative Space, based in Guangzhou and Beijing

92

Anselm Franke

A master of the essay-exhibition: rich, sprawling topographies of imagery, research and speculation

93

Forrest Nash

Blogfounder whose site, which posts images of, rather than text about, exhibitions, has well over one million page views a month

94

Sunjung Kim

International curator and president of Gwangju Bienniale Foundation

95

Eugene Tan

Director of the National Gallery Singapore

96

2012
94

Maureen Paley

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

97

2012
95

Mera, Don, Jennifer & Jason Rubell

Owners of one of the largest private contemporary art collections, with children (Jennifer and Jason) who have art careers of their own

98

El Anatsui

Sculptor and teacher whose shimmering curtains made of thousands of throwaway metal objects have seen an upsurge in demand and value

99

Jennifer Flay

Director of the increasingly important and internationally focused FIAC Art Fair in Paris

100

Eko Nugroho

Star artist on the Indonesian art scene, with an international profile, and whose work is embedded in both local traditions and global culture