Category: Gallerist
Nationality: Swiss
Last Year: 5

Still in his late thirties, Europe’s leading dealer can boast an international gallery empire: this September, he opened his first New York venue. Bad timing? Hauser & Wirth began in recession-struck 1992. As Wirth told Art+Auction in February: ‘Now is also a fantastic moment to expand.’ The Manhattan venue launched by remaking Allan Kaprow’s seminal 1961 environment Yard; simultaneously, Wirth keeps diversifying, signing up New Delhi-based Bharti Kher while representing both ninety-eight-year-old Louise Bourgeois and twenty-eight-year-old Jakub Julian Ziolkowski. ‘I am not afraid of the current difficult climate and actually think we are in a great position’, Wirth recently told ARTINFO. It’s hard to disagree.