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.

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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