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Arankedlistofthecontemporaryartworld'smost powerfulfigures
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2012 11

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

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2012 05

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

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IwanWirth
Established international gallerist with ve venues in Zurich, London and New York, and new projects including a UK arts and education complex in Somerset
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2012 02

LarryGagosian
Established gallerist with 13 venues worldwide putting on museum quality exhibitions

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2012 10

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

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2012 08

NicholasSerota
Tate Director

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2012 07

BeatrixRuf
Director Kunsthalle Zurich and board member of organisations including the Ringier collection and Viennas MUMOK

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2012 09

GlennD.Lowry
Director Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York

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2012 03

AiWeiwei
Artist and social activist, prominent in reconnecting art with issues of social and cultural value

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2012 19

MassimilianoGioni
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Artistic director of the 2013 Venice Biennale, director of the nomadic Trussardi Foundation and associate director of New Yorks New Museum

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2012 35

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

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2012 14

AlainSeban&AlfredPacquement
President and Director of Pompidou Centre, Paris

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2012 13

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

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2012 18

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

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2012 06

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

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2012 16

MarcSpiegler
Art Basel director

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Marc&ArneGlimcher

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2012 17

Marc&ArneGlimcher
Father and son partnership in charge of Pace, with galleries in New York, London and Beijing

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2012 15

AdamD.Weinberg
Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art

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2012 21

FranoisPinault
Owner of the Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana in Venice, where works are shown from the Pinault Collection

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2012 01

CarolynChristovBakargiev
Curator of Documenta 13 in 2012

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2012 12

AntonVidokle,JulietaAranda& BrianKuanWood/eflux
Conduit for nding out whats happening in the global artworld through email, publishing and exhibitions

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2012 20

JayJopling
Founder of White Cube 1990s home to Hirst and the YBA'S, now with galleries in London, Hong Kong and So Paulo

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2012 22

KlausBiesenbach
Director of MoMA PS1 and chief curator at large at The Museum of Modern Art New York

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2012 25

RoseLeeGoldberg
Founder and director of New York based visual art performance biennial, Performa

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2012 27

PatriciaPhelpsdeCisneros
A patron, whose holdings of modern and contemporary Latin American art are unmatched in breadth, depth and quality

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2012 33

MajaHoffmann
Tate trustee, president of the Kunsthalle Zurich Foundation, on the board of the Palais de Tokyo, New Yorks New Museum and Bard College

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2012 23

MatthewSlotover&AmandaSharp
Founders of the Frieze Art Fair

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2012 26

Eli&EdytheBroad
Super collectors

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2012 24

BarbaraGladstone
American gallerist with a wealth of omnipresent artists

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2012 34

TimBlum&JeffPoe
Big draw gallerists on the LA scene

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2012 28

BernardArnault
Luxury-goods magnate, collector and patron of art

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2012 29

NicholasLogsdail
Stalwart London gallerist

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2012 38

MonikaSprth&PhilomeneMagers
John Baldessari to Kraftwerk and Ryan Trecartin: these London and Berlin-based gallerists have it covered

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2012 40

GavinBrown
New York gallerist who does it his way

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2012 46

IsaGenzken
Mainstay artist and an enduring inuence on younger generations

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2012 59

SteveMcQueen
Artist turned lm director

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2012 36

DakisJoannou
The life of Dakis: a Jeff Koons-design yacht, an art foundation and some famous friends.

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VictorPinchuk
Ukrainian steel pipe magnate and art collector, founder of the
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Ukrainian steel pipe magnate and art collector, founder of the Future Generation Art Prize

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ThomasHirschhorn
A Swiss artist going public

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2012 56

TheasterGates
The poster boy for socially engaged art

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2012 42

RosemarieTrockel
Her who-says-I-cant-do-this? approach makes her at once one of our most persuasive feminist artists

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2012 30

LiamGillick
Artist, writer, critic, teacher and this year Gillick added movie star to his CV

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2012 44

AgnesGund
A pivot to New York society

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2012 43

WolfgangTillmans
Seeing the world through the German artist's camera lens

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PierreHuyghe
The new Duchampian
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2012 39

MatthewMarks
Gallerist with a Chelsea space since the 1990s and an LA space since 2012

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2012 48

AnnePasternak
President and artistic director of Creative Time

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2012 84

SheikhaHoorAlQasimi
President of the Sharjah Art Foundation

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2012 37

UdoKittelmann
Director of Berlins State Museums

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2012 74

BrettGorvy
Chairman and International Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art, Christie's

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2012 51

TobyWebster
The magician of the Glasgow miracle

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2012 75

TobiasMeyer&CheyenneWestphal
Sotheby's worldwide head of contemporary art and chairman of contemporary art Europe

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2012 55

MichaelRingier
Collector and founder of JRP Ringier art publishing house

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2012 69

TinoSehgal
The artist who never makes a thing

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2012 49

SadieColes
London gallerist with three spaces

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2012 58

JeffKoons
Balloon Dog millionaire

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MichaelGovan
Head honcho at Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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2012 62

EmmanuelPerrotin
Hong Kong, New York and Paris gallerist

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EvaPresenhuber
Thoughtful Zurich-based gallerist

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DanielBuchholz
Cologne-based gallerist making careers
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2012 71

LuisaStrina
One of the biggest and best conduits to Brazilian art

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2012 60

TakashiMurakami
Multi-role fulling Japanese artist

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2012 83

JohnBaldessari
Artist who is still cool after more than forty years in the business

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RyanTrecartin
Young American artist who has lept from YouTube to the museum under a critical acclaim

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2012 67

ChangTsongzung
Gallerist building bridges between China and India

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EugenioLpez
Collector and founder of the largest private museum in Latin America

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YayoiKusama
Red, white, and instantly recognisable: the highest-earning living female artist

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2012 86

VasifKortun
Curator spearheading the Turkish art scene

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HitoSteyerl
Artist-as-theorist, theorist-as-artist

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2012 63

RichardChang
Collector of both Western and Asian art and also a key broker of ties between the two artistic communities

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2012 66

ThaddaeusRopac
The gallerist prince of Paris

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2012 64

TimNeuger&Burkhard Riemschneider
The gallerists behind Neugerriemschneider

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LarsNittve
Founding director of Tate Modern, now heading M+, Hong Kong

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2012 73

JosKuri&MnicaManzutto
Founders of Kurimanzutto, Mexico City

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2012

BernardoPaz
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Founder of Inhotim, 2,000-hectares of art and botany in Brazilian mining country

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2012 72

ClaireHsu
Cofounder of Asia Art Archive

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2012 79

MassimoDeCarlo
Established Milanese gallerist, establishing himself in London

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Stdelschule
The Frankfurt school

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2012 76

BudiTek
Chinese-Indonesian collector, founder of the Yuz Foundation

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BardCollege
Art School, Annandale-on-Hudson

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QuentinMeillassoux,Graham Harman,RayBrassier&Iain HamiltonGrant/Speculative Realism

Philosophical movement rethinking assumptions about the relationship of the subject to the world

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MarkLeckey
The artist whose technological enquiries into the the nature of objects have had a powerful inuence on a younger generation of digital natives

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ZengFanzhi
Currently China's highest-selling artist, with plans for his own museum showcasing Western and Chinese gurative art

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2012 70

Christian&KarenBoros
Collectors who curate and show their works in a converted concrete bunker, also involved in publishing and artfair VIP programming

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2012 82

MarioCristiani,LorenzoFiaschi, MaurizioRigillo
Trio behind Galleria Continua, with a trio of spaces, one each in the Tuscan town of San Gimignano, west of Paris, and in Beijing

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2012 85

DashaZhukova
Founder of Moscow's private art foundation the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture

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NicolasBourriaud
Cofounder of the Palais de Tokyo and father of the omnipresent relational aesthetics movement

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2012

VictoriaMiro
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Established London gallerist with major international artists and gallery spaces in East London and Mayfair

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SeanKelly
New York gallery making an impact with a crowd-pleasing programme and a focus on live and durational art

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2012 91

FrancoNoero&PierpaoloFalone
Turin-based gallerists with a talent for combining national and international artists, and commerce and credibility

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ZhangWei/VitaminCreativeSpace
Cofounder of the multidisciplinary Vitamin Creative Space, based in Guangzhou and Beijing

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AnselmFranke
A master of the essay-exhibition: rich, sprawling topographies of imagery, research and speculation

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ForrestNash
Blogfounder whose site, which posts images of, rather than text about, exhibitions, has well over one million page views a month

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SunjungKim
Curator of international projects and exhibitions and founder of the Seoul based SAMUSO: Space for Contemporary Art

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EugeneTan
Director of the National Art Gallery, Singapore, and stage setter for Singapores potential emergence as a Southeast Asian arts hub

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2012 94

MaureenPaley
Longstanding East London gallerist showing major international artists alongside the new and lesser known

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2012 95

Mera,Don,Jennifer&JasonRubell
Owners of one of the largest private contemporary art collections, with children (Jennifer and Jason) who have art careers of their own

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ElAnatsui
Sculptor and teacher whose shimmering curtains made of thousands of throwaway metal objects have seen an upsurge in demand and value

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JenniferFlay
Director of the increasingly important and internationally focused FIAC Art Fair in Paris

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EkoNugroho
Star artist on the Indonesian art scene, with an international prole, and whose work is embedded in both local traditions and global culture

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