2011 Power 100
| Yes! Everyone’s favourite guide to the dancers who’ve spent the past 12 months gyrating around contemporary art’s greasy pole of power is back with a fresh list. Find out who slid up, who slid down and who wore inappropriate footwear and fell off altogether. Despite what you might read in the more popular press, the ArtReview Power 100 is not simply about who’s number one, or just a who’s who to contemporary art. And it’s most certainly not a guide to our most-favourite artists or the people we’d like to toady up to or be able to call friends. First and foremost, it’s a guide to the general trends, networks and forces that shape the artworld. If you’ve got comments or criticisms, or are just plain lonely, please use the comments box provided – now that we’ve done the messy work and gutted the beast, you can read the entrails. View artreview.com and subscribe to the magazine here. |
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| 1. Ai Weiwei 2. Hans Ulrich Obrist & Julia Peyton-Jones 3. Glenn D. Lowry 4. Larry Gagosian 5. Anton Vidokle, Julieta Aranda & Brian Kuan Wood 6. Nicholas Serota 7. Cindy Sherman 8. Iwan Wirth 9. David Zwirner 10. Beatrix Ruf 11. Gerhard Richter 12. Alfred Pacquement 13. Adam D. Weinberg 14. Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev 15. Marc Glimcher 16. Klaus Biesenbach 17. Eli Broad 18. RoseLee Goldberg 19. François Pinault 20. Marc Spiegler & Annette Schönholzer 21. Mike Kelley 22. Barbara Gladstone 23. Marina Abramovic 24. Matthew Slotover & Amanda Sharp 25. Patricia Phelps de Cisneros 26. Bice Curiger 27. Marian Goodman 28. Peter Fischli & David Weiss 29. Bernard Arnault 30. Nicholas Logsdail 31. Jay Jopling 32. Liam Gillick 33. Ann Philbin 34. Dominique Lévy & Robert Mnuchin 35. Victor Pinchuk 36. Franz West 37. Maja Hoffmann 38. Agnes Gund 39. Tim Blum & Jeff Poe 40. Dakis Joannou 41. Rosemarie Trockel 42. Iwona Blazwick 43. Udo Kittelmann 44. Monika Sprüth & Philomene Magers 45. Matthew Marks 46. Gavin Brown 47. Takashi Murakami 48. Jeffrey Deitch 49. Adam Szymczyk 50. Anish Kapoor 51. Emmanuel Perrotin 52. Okwui Enwezor 53. Boris Groys 54. Artur Zmijewski 55. Michael Morris & James Lingwood 56. William Wells & Yasser Gareb 57. Anne Pasternak 58. Michael Ringier 59. Steve McQueen 60. Sadie Coles 61. Daniel Buchholz 62. Toby Webster 63. Germano Celant 64. Damien Hirst 65. Slavoj Zizek 66. Jeff Koons 67. Thaddaeus Ropac 68. Brett Gorvy & Amy Cappellazzo 69. Tobias Meyer & Cheyenne Westphal 70. Chang Tsong-zung & Claire Hsu 71. Yana Peel & Candida Gertler 72. Christine Tohme 73. Richard Chang 74. Helga de Alvear 75. Walid Raad 76. Bernardo Paz 77. Tim Neuger & Burkhard Riemschneider 78. Massimo De Carlo 79. Mario Cristiani, Lorenzo Fiaschi & Maurizio Rigillo 80. Massimiliano Gioni 81. Dasha Zhukova 82. Vasif Kortun 83. David Hammons 84. Philip Tinari 85. Miuccia Prada 86. Shirin Neshat 87. Jason, Jennifer, Mera & Don Rubell 88. Christoph Büchel 89. Elena Filipovic 90. Sheikh Saud bin Muhammad bin Ali Al-Thani/Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani 91. Maureen Paley 92. Christian Boros & Karen Lohmann 93. Victoria Miro 94. Anita & Poju Zabludowicz 95. Kaja Silverman 96. Johann König 97. Nicolai Wallner 98. Franco Noero & Pierpaolo Falone 99. Leonid Mikhelson 100. Gregor Podnar |
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Interesting nomenclature. I hope nobody takes this too seriously though. The last thing we need is more addiction to the pecking order.
Charles Saatchi is the Ultimate God of the Art market, not Ai WeiWei…
When and where did this top 100 hundred fad originate? From my own experience it was a Television and radio phenomenon of the naughties that turned up the top 100 comedy moments, top 100 pop songs etc. originating no doubt from pop music sales charts. The clever operators and generators of these lists usually incorporate a phone in voting element and generate money from it while giving people the illusion of some sort of democracy in the choosing of what is important. Ever wonder who is in the bottom 100 hundred? Now that would be an interesting list. But who would sponsor that?
ilikeart on October 21st, 2011:
“remember, like most things in life art needs to be a business in order to survive.”
SERIOUSLY?
Lists are transient, people come and people go. None of us are here for long. A blink in fact. Don’t be a slave to art or anything. Enjoy what you have and don’t moan about what you don’t have. We have never been freer or richer than today. Today we are alive.
I am probably the best artist in the world, and yet I am a nobody.
Jesus, listen to yourselves. Most of you commenters sound like a bunch of jealous haters. Get a grip, these are the people who push the business of art forward, remember, like most things in life art needs to be a business in order to survive.
Stop complaining and do something with your lives. If you can’t beat them, join them, then you can at least dislike the business without sounding like you’re envious – or better yet change it from the inside!
This is seriously out of step with the times. Artists and philosophers don’t belong on the same list as capitalists. So we’ll have mercy on #s 1 and 2 and #s 3 and 4 will be first against the wall.
… and in 100 years? Who on this list will not be forgotten? The list is no more than a continuation of the commercialisation of fine art. Bankers and boozers have art by the balls. Rebel oh ye faithful!
utter idiocy.
oh really. i wondered who was sitting up at their marble desk thinking which friends to slot where while sipping dom perignon…
Great list but i can’t help but feel you left a few people off such as Robert Hiscox the insurance magnate who has an eye and passion for art. Other than a few admissions well done.
Anonymity is key to ElusiveArt, X
it’s like porn, always makes you twist your neck for a second. or more.
you’ve worked so hard at it, you even left a little typo: “or the people we’d like to toady up to or be able to call friends”
What about from Southeast Asia, Asia, others?…Where is RUANGRUPA from Jakarra (www.ruangrupa.org)? This bullshit list…
100 clowns, the world has failed, the art has failed
Where’s Terence?
It’s good for the students, very usefull!
I thought this list would just have Larry Gagosian listed as 1-10
It’s like a masters of the universe list. When could we enjoy the action figures?
umm, who? I recognized 10 names. I guess that’s one reason my name’s not on the list.
Based on these lists one would think that ALL artists could stop making art completely for a year or two or more, and it wouldn’t slow down the business and antics of these power players one bit, as they jet around to each others’ panels and parties and pass the same work by the same 20 artists around between each other at auction. Would most of them even notice if art just stopped?
Let’s see a Top 100 list that is ONLY artists: the rich ones, the poor ones, the outsider ones, the activist ones, the famous ones, the hated ones, whatever…these are the people who are making the lives and reason-for-being for everyone on here possible.
This year I didn’t do to much: it shows: 74 men in the top 100. Have to work a bit harder next year.
Slavoj Zizek, great choice!
Lists never pleases and criteria are often mixed. This is one list in many.
The more lists the better.
And the Nobleprize for Decorating Your House goes to…..
You still did not realize that the future of art is in South America. Countries like Colombia, Brazil, Paraguay, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia, will be marking the future. This list is published and elitist is promoted throughout the world, sun, or shows how little appreciation for the art you have in the other continentes.Y still teaches that Colombo discovered America! That thing discovered? There is much to learn and discover in the continent of the future.
Exactly who votes these people into “art power”.
The same ones who run the existing art power clique?
You don’t say.
do you really care?
Who sits on the judging panel, note, who, not what is the criteria, clearly criteria does not apply. if it did, some of the people in the top 25 would not tick a lot of boxes! A Museum director in New York! reach confined only in NY? A co- director in London, also confined to London only, who suddenly reappears for picking up a Bard College Award for curatorial excellence! One wonders why the only accomplished African on the list, whose influence and reach spans continents, who writes, directs, initiates ( oh, and the Bard College thing)and manages to stand tall in the lily white art world, or list! can slip down! Is there a panel and criteria, or just ArtReview sucking up to certain individuals!!!!
Well… at least there ARE artists in this list… contrary to the top 201 of most influential people in the Dutch art world…
How can you mention Anish Kapoor’s recent commissions with no mention of his collaborative artist Cecil Balmond, the genius behind the forms of the ArcelorMittal Orbit and the Tees Valley Giants? Kapoor could never have conceived these recent works without Balmond. You need to amend your list by adding Balmond.
I have no issue concerning the list. My question would be what determines the concept of influence. And how the people on the list exercise that influence. Is it for the benefit of art and the people who view and execute art work. Or have we gotten to the point where the decisions that are made and how those decisions are perceived by the world at large are no better than the way banks, politics, and big business in general are seen. I think the artists do their part to offer the world something of value and importance. I am just hoping the other people involved in this world bring something of integrity to maintain this important aspect of all our lives.
Thank you !!!
New Médicis on the block. things have changed, now, we are too many.
Where’s Klaus?
El arte ha sido dominado por el dinero ?
O el dinero es arte ?
los artistas siempre o casi siempre terminan no recibiendo beneficios justos por sus obras , mientras los intermediarios se enriquecen
¡El bledo al poder! ¿Quienes son todos esos tipos? ¿Qué clase de poder ejercen? ¿Cuando dejará el arte de tener esta tutela tan oscena?
Ahhh Ha ha !
Yes the list is of many people who are thrilled with selling art as money. Look where this gotten us BANKSY la l a. Tracy Em’s vergina and her tired fragile addiction to celebrity and attention and very poor almost non existent art.
I cant wait to die and see what history hold for these earnest mislead head driven curators who have a small understanding of the real world an a big understanding of themselves.
We know many artists are not promoted in their lifetimes and are relevant to people long after their worth and death.
Or do these people help sell your magazine??? Oh That may be it
Are we so stupid……I like art that makes money and am entertained by many in the list, but lets get real…such a subjective list is fatuous and sill and insults our intelligence… there are many more great people out there and this list shows very poor and limited taste.
I wonder what a list of the 100 most influential artworks might look like – works that continue to enrich and shape the art world. It’s often not what an artwork is about but what it’s worth, no? As a working artist I know where my influences are, and sometimes see my collage style copied. But is that any kind of power? What’s the big trend, then?
In September 2009 I launched a global project, A Book About Death, at the Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery in New York. It was a blowout success and has since seen in little more than one year, some 19 re-stagings all over the world. Artist-driven, these exhibitions use the postal system as part support, the internet as media channel and best of all, all these exhibitions are free to enter. The original show offered the entire edition free to visitors. Along with the posters (download via PDF from the main sites). Exhibition complete on a web site, including a music video.
Alas, free doesn’t sell in the art world, however several thousand artists have already participated in A Book About Death, and there are no signs of letting up. What’s power, anyway? It’s the energy someone gives to someone else.
MATTHEW ROSE, PARIS / http://matthewrosestudio.blogspot.com/
The comments are interesting.
I find that the negative ones, are sour grapes.
Leave it to bitter art people to find something to carp about.
I am a Non-starving artist in Denver, I learned the business part of being an artist , very early.
I don’t have to be the best artist, I just have to give my artlife the best effort.
I am happy to have a good journeyman art career.
Sincerely,
Bob Ragland- a happy artist in Denver,Colorado.
What about galleries/artists from the sub-continent – Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal etc? They have certainly made their mark, and have more substance/relevance than some of the “names” on the list. In these times of globalization, this is a very weak “Power 100″, especially for a magazine with such an international market/reach. Too much deja-vu.
Chris Kennedy??? You know, famous family, owner of Armory, Art Chicago, Volta, etc…. doesn’t that count as Power in the art world then??
I Want To Spend The Rest Of My Life Mocking Everywhere, With Everyone, One To One, Always, Forever, Now.
richard prince, matthew barney, anyone?
they feel pretty appropriate for this list don’t they?
where is Paul McCarthy??? http://lostinasupermarket.com/2010/09/do-madmen-eat-scones/
Looks like it was the ARTISTS who wore inappropriate footwear this year?!?!!! Even Jasper Johns got the boot (and guys, I am sure he only wears the finest shoes that money can buy)! Is the artworld beginning to look like People Magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful” or is it just me? Why is this list and subsequent stats(charts!!!)necessary?
Is it art or is it power?
It is a good list and not stupid at all -if you consider
art dealers a step or two just below used car dealers
and we all know about used car dealers don’t we.?
So be advised about the order of used car dealers
and beware !!!!It would all be laughable if it weren’t so
pathetic . What was left out is the auction houses which
are .. fill in whatever thought comes to mind .
Art Forbes?… mmmh… nonsense for me… what’s next?… “American Art Idol”?!…
Make a neon version of the list and call it ironic.
I also don’t believe that TALLE BAMAZI is not included in list
there is literally not a single black woman on this list
what about thelma golden? latoya ruby-frazier? xaviera simmonds?
how is it possible that these communities are rendered invisible?
This is great information. Thanks so much.
http://www.unconsciousmonster.com
best marketing for those involved.
it moves and looks like dynamic content, but is as plain and static as an advert.
Oh, sorry, there it is: Dom Perrignon!
By power, you mean the ability to buy (and sell) art. Expensive art, or at least art that makes the covers of magazines. Your list is as good as any other list, really.
And of artists? What is their power after all is said and done? Very few control their own markets. But more importantly very few dealers have the power to move the market the way hedge fund traders can move a stock in the FTSE or Nasdaq. What’s it mean, your list? At the very least you should be selling an ad spot on this page. I don’t see Art Review on the list!
MATTHEW ROSE, PARIS / http://matthewrosestudio.blogspot.com/
Ha ha!
I love these lists. You can just imagine an editor and two interns desperately trying to weigh the importance of some of these lumineries. All it really points out is how depressingly irrelevant the entire art scene is today, despite it’s frantic effort to matter somehow…to anyone.
I can’t believe that Matthew Barney is not included in this list.
OK… I admit it … I’m lonely now…
This whole concept is ill-conceived and utter nonsense. What was the process, who participated in the decision making, what are the criteria and ultimately what difference does this list make? To me this has as much credibility are the “what’s in – what’s out” lists in Glamour Magazine (actually those lists are more useful and plugged in than this dreck) Shame on Art Review to stooping to this level.
I am so over these stupid elitist list. They prove nothing!!!