Category: Collector
Nationality: Swiss
Last Year: 42
Liam Gillick, Aleksandra Mir, Christopher Williams, Matt Mullican, Richard Prince, Richard Phillips, Fischli & Weiss, Josh Smith – the list of artists who in recent years have designed the annual report for Michael Ringier’s media holdings is impressive, and would be respectable for any art publisher, which is, of course, one of his identities: he owns JRP Ringier and also the German art and lifestyle glossy Monopol. But Ringier is also one of Switzerland’s most assiduous and multidimensional collectors, and seems to be aiming for a higher public profile for his collection of almost 2,000 works by more than 200 artists – with a first comprehensive presentation last year in Lucerne and the current solo exhibition of Mark Morrisroe in Berlin’s Kunsthalle Koidl.