Art Review has released its annual Power 100 list, an international roll call of the art world’s dominant financial movers and shakers. Taking the top place this year is Shiekha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, of Qatar.
The 30 year old Shiekha is the Chairperson of the Board of Trustees – Qatar Museums Authority. She has played a pioneering role in the fields of culture, education and outreach, spearheading and supporting various local and international organisations. Her ambition as a leader is committed to bringing about world dialogue through a multitude of platforms that have been widely felt, earning her recognition as a global peacemaker and humanitarian. In her home country of Qatar she is recognised as the youthful driving force behind the Qatar Museums Authority. Her vision for creating a country rich in arts and culture is coming to fruition with the unveiling of the Museum of Islamic Art. This flagship project under the umbrella of the QMA embodies her broader vision to bridge between past and present, East and West.
Born the 14th child of Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, the former Emir of Qatar, and the eldest daughter of the Emir with his second wife, Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al-Missned. She has been described this year by the Art Review as “the art world’s most powerful person in visual art”.
The ArtLyst Power 100: 2013 Alternative Art Power List was unveiled last week during the Frieze Art Fair. The ArtLyst editorial staff believe that achievement should not be compromised for the sake of the dollar, so we have created our own alternative list, instead of a Machiavellian Power List that has more in common with the Times ‘Rich List’. This year we have put together a Resourceful PowerLyst that celebrates exactly what it says on the tin – not those with the fiscal muscle to bend the artworld into whatever shape they please, but those with the creative power and ability to influence and augment the British and international art scenes through merit alone.
Read The ArtLyst Power 100: 2013 Alternative Art Power List Here
Art Review 2013 Power 100 List
01
Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani
Sponsor of major international projects and head of the Qatar Museums Authority (QMA)
02
David Zwirner
Established international gallerist with a roster of the biggest selling artists and a impressive new exhibition building in New York
03
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
Larry Gagosian
Established gallerist with 13 venues worldwide putting on museum quality exhibitions
05
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
Nicholas Serota
Tate Director
07
Beatrix Ruf
Director Kunsthalle Zurich and board member of organisations including the Ringier collection and Vienna’s MUMOK
08
Glenn D. Lowry
Director Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
09
Ai Weiwei
Artist and social activist, prominent in reconnecting art with issues of social and cultural value
10
Massimiliano Gioni
Artistic director of the 2013 Venice Biennale, director of the nomadic Trussardi Foundation and associate director of New York’s New Museum
11
Marina Abramović
Performance artist turned celebrity inspirer and admirer, and successful crowdfunder for the Marina Abramović Institute
12
Alain Seban & Alfred Pacquement
President and Director of Pompidou Centre, Paris
13
Cindy Sherman
Photographic artist famous for using herself as a model to create a variety of characters
14
Marian Goodman
Established gallerist with a roster of high profile artists and spaces in New York and Paris
15
Gerhard Richter
Highest selling living artist who broke his own auction record in 2013 for a painting sold for $37m
16
Marc Spiegler
Art Basel director
17
Marc & Arne Glimcher
Father and son partnership in charge of Pace, with galleries in New York, London and Beijing
18
Adam D. Weinberg
Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art
19
François Pinault
Owner of the Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana in Venice, where works are shown from the Pinault Collection
20
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
Curator of Documenta 13 in 2012
21
Anton Vidokle, Julieta Aranda & Brian Kuan Wood/e-flux
Conduit for finding out what’s happening in the global artworld through email, publishing and exhibitions
22
Jay Jopling
Founder of White Cube – 1990s home to Hirst and the YBA’S, now with galleries in London, Hong Kong and São Paulo
23
Klaus Biesenbach
Director of MoMA PS1 and chief curator at large at The Museum of Modern Art New York
24
RoseLee Goldberg
Founder and director of New York based visual art performance biennial, Performa
25
Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
A patron, whose holdings of modern and contemporary Latin American art are unmatched in breadth, depth and quality
26
Maja Hoffmann
Tate trustee, president of the Kunsthalle Zurich Foundation, on the board of the Palais de Tokyo, New York’s New Museum and Bard College
27
Matthew Slotover & Amanda Sharp
Founders of the Frieze Art Fair
28
Eli & Edythe Broad
Super collectors
29
Barbara Gladstone
American gallerist with a wealth of omnipresent artists
30
Tim Blum & Jeff Poe
Big draw gallerists on the LA scene
31
Bernard Arnault
Luxury-goods magnate, collector and patron of art
32
Nicholas Logsdail
Stalwart London gallerist
33
Monika Sprüth & Philomene Magers
John Baldessari to Kraftwerk and Ryan Trecartin: these London and Berlin-based gallerists have it covered
34
Gavin Brown
New York gallerist who does it his way
35
Isa Genzken
Mainstay artist and an enduring influence on younger generations
36
Steve McQueen
Artist turned film director
37
Dakis Joannou
The life of Dakis: a Jeff Koons-design yacht, an art foundation and some famous friends.
38
Victor Pinchuk
Ukrainian steel pipe magnate and art collector, founder of the Future Generation Art Prize
39
Thomas Hirschhorn
A Swiss artist going public
40
Theaster Gates
The poster boy for socially engaged art
41
Rosemarie Trockel
Her who-says-I-can’t-do-this? approach makes her at once one of our most persuasive feminist artists
42
Liam Gillick
Artist, writer, critic, teacher – and this year Gillick added movie star to his CV
43
Agnes Gund
A pivot to New York society
44
Wolfgang Tillmans
Seeing the world through the German artist’s camera lens
45
Pierre Huyghe
The new Duchampian
46
Matthew Marks
Gallerist with a Chelsea space since the 1990s and an LA space since 2012
47
Anne Pasternak
President and artistic director of Creative Time
48
Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi
President of the Sharjah Art Foundation
49
Udo Kittelmann
Director of Berlin’s State Museums
50
Brett Gorvy
Chairman and International Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art, Christie’s
51
Toby Webster
The magician of the Glasgow miracle
52
Tobias Meyer & Cheyenne Westphal
Sotheby’s worldwide head of contemporary art and chairman of contemporary art Europe
53
Michael Ringier
Collector and founder of JRP Ringier art publishing house
54
Tino Sehgal
The artist who never makes a thing
55
Sadie Coles
London gallerist with three spaces
56
Jeff Koons
Balloon Dog millionaire
57
Michael Govan
Head honcho at Los Angeles County Museum of Art
58
Emmanuel Perrotin
Hong Kong, New York and Paris gallerist
59
Eva Presenhuber
Thoughtful Zurich-based gallerist
60
Daniel Buchholz
Cologne-based gallerist making careers
61
Luisa Strina
One of the biggest and best conduits to Brazilian art
62
Takashi Murakami
Multi-role fufilling Japanese artist
63
John Baldessari
Artist who is still cool after more than forty years in the business
64
Ryan Trecartin
Young American artist who has lept from YouTube to the museum under a critical acclaim
65
Chang Tsong-zung
Gallerist building bridges between China and India
66
Eugenio López
Collector and founder of the largest private museum in Latin America
67
Yayoi Kusama
Red, white, and instantly recognisable: the highest-earning living female artist
68
Vasif Kortun
Curator spearheading the Turkish art scene
69
Hito Steyerl
Artist-as-theorist, theorist-as-artist
70
Richard Chang
Collector of both Western and Asian art and also a key broker of ties between the two artistic communities
71
Thaddaeus Ropac
The gallerist prince of Paris
72
Tim Neuger & Burkhard Riemschneider
The gallerists behind Neugerriemschneider
73
Lars Nittve
Founding director of Tate Modern, now heading M+, Hong Kong
74
José Kuri & Mónica Manzutto
Founders of Kurimanzutto, Mexico City
75
Bernardo Paz
Founder of Inhotim, 2,000-hectares of art and botany in Brazilian mining country
76
Claire Hsu
Cofounder of Asia Art Archive
77
Massimo De Carlo
Established Milanese gallerist, establishing himself in London
78
Städelschule
The Frankfurt school
79
Budi Tek
Chinese-Indonesian collector, founder of the Yuz Foundation
80
Bard College
Art School, Annandale-on-Hudson
81
Quentin Meillassoux, Graham Harman, Ray Brassier & Iain Hamilton Grant / Speculative Realism
Philosophical movement rethinking assumptions about the relationship of the subject to the world
82
Mark Leckey
The artist whose technological enquiries into the the nature of objects have had a powerful influence on a younger generation of digital natives
83
Zeng Fanzhi
Currently China’s highest-selling artist, with plans for his own museum showcasing Western and Chinese figurative art
84
Christian & Karen Boros
Collectors who curate and show their works in a converted concrete bunker, also involved in publishing and artfair VIP programming
85
Mario Cristiani, Lorenzo Fiaschi, Maurizio Rigillo
Trio behind Galleria Continua, with a trio of spaces, one each in the Tuscan town of San Gimignano, west of Paris, and in Beijing
86
Dasha Zhukova
Founder of Moscow’s private art foundation the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture
87
Nicolas Bourriaud
Cofounder of the Palais de Tokyo and father of the omnipresent relational aesthetics movement
88
Victoria Miro
Established London gallerist with major international artists and gallery spaces in East London and Mayfair
89
Sean Kelly
New York gallery making an impact with a crowd-pleasing programme and a focus on live and durational art
90
Franco Noero & Pierpaolo Falone
Turin-based gallerists with a talent for combining national and international artists, and commerce and credibility
91
Zhang Wei/Vitamin Creative Space
Cofounder of the multidisciplinary Vitamin Creative Space, based in Guangzhou and Beijing
92
Anselm Franke
A master of the essay-exhibition: rich, sprawling topographies of imagery, research and speculation
93
Forrest Nash
Blogfounder whose site, which posts images of, rather than text about, exhibitions, has well over one million page views a month
94
Sunjung Kim
Curator of international projects and exhibitions and founder of the Seoul based SAMUSO: Space for Contemporary Art
95
Eugene Tan
Director of the National Art Gallery, Singapore, and stage setter for Singapore’s potential emergence as a Southeast Asian arts hub
96
Maureen Paley
Longstanding East London gallerist showing major international artists alongside the new and lesser known
97
Mera, Don, Jennifer & Jason Rubell
Owners of one of the largest private contemporary art collections, with children (Jennifer and Jason) who have art careers of their own
98
El Anatsui
Sculptor and teacher whose shimmering curtains made of thousands of throwaway metal objects have seen an upsurge in demand and value
99
Jennifer Flay
Director of the increasingly important and internationally focused FIAC Art Fair in Paris
100
Eko Nugroho
Star artist on the Indonesian art scene, with an international profile, and whose work is embedded in both local traditions and global culture