ArtReview magazine has published the Power 100 list for the thirteenth time this year, which selects the 100 most influential figures in the world of art. We reveal to you the first ten - those who visibly co-shape the image of art today because of one of three things: their artistic expression, money or a high position.
1. Nicholas Serota
Director of the most visited modern gallery in the world, Tate Modern (last year it had as many as 4.9 million visitors) he found himself in the first place not only because of his high position, but because of the importance that this famous London gallery has under his leadership. According to the editor of the magazine ArtReview, Tate Modern is the perfect description for the Western paradigm, which spreads the art system all over the world.
2. David Zwirner
American art dealer has retained his position as the second most influential person in the art world since last year. Zwirner, who celebrated his fiftieth birthday a few days ago, is owner of two galleries: David Zwirner Gallery in New York and London.
3. Ivan Wirth
Also Swiss art dealer and gallery owner retained his position as the third most influential person in his industry. Together with his wife and mother-in-law, he founded modern art galleries Hauser & Wirth, located in London, New York, Somerset and Zurich.
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4. Glenn D. Lowry
He has been a sixty-year-old art historian since 1995 director of the famous MoMe in New York (Museum of Modern Art in New York). An active advocate of modern art and the role of museums in society, he climbed four places since last year.
5. Marina Abramović
World famous Serbian performer, who today lives and works in New York, shocked and moved countless times during her career. It has climbed six places since last year – probably mostly due to the fact that it managed to raise the funds to operate on Kickstarter MAI (Marina Abramović Institute), which is an unusual New York platform for works of art longer than six hours.
6. Hans-Ulrich Obrist & Julia Peyton Jones
Obrist is an extremely active curator, critic and art historian who together with Jones, he runs the Serpentine Gallery in London, and at the same time actively organizes a wide variety of international art projects and exhibitions.
7. Jeff Koons
An artist who became famous and rich with his steel balloon animals about this time last year, his was up for public auction sold an orange balloon dog for as much as 58.4 million dollars. This work thus became the most expensive artwork by a living artist, and Koons rose from last year's 56th place on the Power 100 to the ten most influential individuals in art.
8. Larry Gagosian
He is also an American art dealer owner and director of the Gagosian gallery chain, of which there are as many as thirteen in different parts of the world and are famous for their high-quality museum exhibitions. Gagosian was otherwise already involved in several lawsuits, who collected quite a few million from his wallet.
9. Marian Goodman
Owner of the Marian Goodman Gallery in Manhattan it might be the most respected New York "dealer" works of art, as it is famous for its responsible work, high standards, good taste and loyalty to its artists, which it watches over with its trained eye.
10. Cindy Sherman
American photographer and film director she is best known for her photographic portraits in which the model is herself, but in countless variations. A New Yorker whose the portraits are some of the most expensively sold in the history of photography, with his work, he mainly addresses the questions of the role of women, the media and art in modern society.
