2013 Power 15

 

     

            The contemporary artworld's

 

              most powerful figures

 

(fig. Michelangelo: Sistine Chapel, Vatican City)

                

 

 

 

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                        2012 11                       

                    

Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani

Sponsor of major international projects and head of the Qatar Museums Authority (QMA)

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                            02                                                                                                                             2012 05                                             David Zwirner

Established international gallerist with a roster of the biggest selling artists and a impressive new exhibition building in New York

 ______________________________________________________                                                               03                                                                                                                             2012 04                                             Iwan Wirth

Established international gallerist with five venues in Zurich, London and New York, and new projects including a UK arts and education complex in Somerset

 ________________________________________________________                                                              04                                                                                                                             2012 02                                             Larry Gagosian

Established gallerist with 13 venues worldwide putting on museum quality exhibitions

 

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                                                              05                                                                                                                             2012 10                                             Hans Ulrich Obrist & Julia Peyton-Jones

Directors of the Serpentine Galleries, with Hans Ulrich Obrist also the initiator of numerous international art projects and exhibitions

__________________________________________________________                                                               06                                                                                                                             2012 08                                             Nicholas Serota

Tate Director

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                                                              07                                                                                                                             2012 07                                             Beatrix Ruf

Director Kunsthalle Zurich and board member of organisations including the Ringier collection and Vienna’s MUMOK

 _____________________________________________________________                                                              08                                                                                                                             2012 09                                             Glenn D. Lowry

Director Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York

 ______________________________________________________________                                                             09                                                                                                                             2012 03                                             Ai Weiwei

Artist and social activist, prominent in reconnecting

art with issues of social and cultural value

 _______________________________________________________________                                                             10                                                                                                                             2012 19                                             Massimiliano Gioni

Artistic director of the 2013 Venice Biennale, director of the nomadic Trussardi Foundation and associate director of New York’s New Museum

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                                                              11                                                                                                                             2012 35                                             Marina Abramović

Performance artist turned celebrity inspirer and admirer, and successful crowdfunder for the Marina Abramović Institute

_______________________________________________________                                                              12                                                                                                                             2012 14                                             Alain Seban & Alfred Pacquement

President and Director of Pompidou Centre, Paris

 ______________________________________________________                                                             13                                                                                                                             2012 13                                             Cindy Sherman

Photographic artist famous for using herself as a model to create a variety of characters

 ____________________________________________________                                                             14                                                                                                                             2012 18                                             Marian Goodman

Established gallerist with a roster of high profile artists and spaces in New York and Paris

______________________________________________________                                                              15                                                                                                                             2012 06                                             Gerhard Richter

Highest selling living artist who broke his own auction record in 2013 for a painting sold for $37m

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