2012 Power 100
| It’s been 11 years since ArtReview first produced its annual ranking of the most influential people in the artworld, and it’s been quite a ride – past the ecstatic and the furious, bruised egos and big heads, baffled frowns and knowing smiles. The contemporary art that we get to see (as opposed to contemporary art in general) and the discussions we have about it are determined by a complex and shifting network of forces and interests. Since its inception, the Power 100 has aimed to map and document these forces and their shifts as clearly as possible. As a result, the list is founded on observation rather than judgements about who is best and who is worst. And you don’t get a crown, a robe, a prize or even a certificate for being number one. The artworld’s expanding, fragmenting scene faces some big questions: beyond Big Money, there are Big Ideas to be fought over, about who art is for, as much as what it is for. At a time of constant muttering about the 1% and the other 99%, the artworld might be living proof that art really does imitate life. View artreview.com and subscribe to the magazine here. |
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| 1. Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev 2. Larry Gagosian 3. Ai Weiwei 4. Iwan Wirth 5. David Zwirner 6. Gerhard Richter 7. Beatrix Ruf 8. Nicholas Serota 9. Glenn D. Lowry 10. Hans Ulrich Obrist & Julia Peyton-Jones 11. Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani 12. Anton Vidokle, Julieta Aranda & Brian Kuan Wood (e-flux) 13. Cindy Sherman 14. Alain Seban & Alfred Pacquement 15. Adam D. Weinberg 16. Annette Schönholzer, Marc Spiegler & Magnus Renfrew 17. Marc Glimcher 18. Marian Goodman 19. Massimiliano Gioni 20. Jay Jopling 21. François Pinault 22. Klaus Biesenbach 23. Matthew Slotover & Amanda Sharp 24. Barbara Gladstone 25. RoseLee Goldberg 26. Eli & Edythe Broad 27. Patricia Phelps de Cisneros 28. Bernard Arnault 29. Nicholas Logsdail 30. Liam Gillick 31. Ann Philbin 32. Victor Pinchuk 33. Maja Hoffmann 34. Tim Blum & Jeff Poe 35. Marina Abramović 36. Dakis Joannou 37. Udo Kittelmann 38. Monika Sprüth & Philomene Magers 39. Matthew Marks 40. Gavin Brown 41. Damien Hirst 42. Rosemarie Trockel 43. Wolfgang Tillmans 44. Agnes Gund 45. Chus Martínez 46. Isa Genzken 47. Iwona Blazwick 48. Anne Pasternak 49. Sadie Coles 50. Daniel Buchholz 51. Toby Webster 52. Adam Szymczyk 53. James Lingwood & Michael Morris 54. William Wells & Yasser Gerab 55. Michael Ringier 56. Theaster Gates 57. Pussy Riot 58. Jeff Koons 59. Steve McQueen 60. Takashi Murakami 61. Boris Groys 62. Emmanuel Perrotin 63. Richard Chang 64. Tim Neuger & Burkhard Riemschneider 65. Slavoj Zizek 66. Thaddaeus Ropac 67. Chang Tsong-zung 68. Elena Filipovic 69. Tino Sehgal 70. Christian Boros & Karen Lohmann 71. Luisa Strina 72. Claire Hsu 73. José Kuri & Mónica Manzutto 74. Brett Gorvy & Amy Cappellazzo 75. Tobias Meyer & Cheyenne Westphal 76. Budi Tek 77. Walid Raad 78. Cuauhtémoc Medina 79. Massimo De Carlo 80. Bernardo Paz 81. Christine Tohme 82. Mario Cristiani, Lorenzo Fiaschi & Maurizio Rigillo 83. John Baldessari 84. Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi 85. Dasha Zhukova 86. Vasif Kortun 87. Anita & Poju Zabludowicz 88. Candida Gertler 89. Gisela Capitain 90. Carol Greene 91. Franco Noero & Pierpaolo Falone 92. Jacques Rancière 93. Miuccia Prada 94. Maureen Paley 95. Don, Mera, Jason & Jennifer Rubell 96. Paul Chan 97. Victoria Miro 98. Adriano Pedrosa 99. Johann König 100. Gregor Podnar |
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