Tate Modern, The Unilever Series: Ai Weiwei, Sunflower Seeds. October 12, 2010 – May 2, 2011
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei tops Art Review’s Power 100 list this year. The richest artist in China is also the most politically outspoken one — a lesson that might be learned by more artists around the world. Art Review’s top 25 power brokers include mega-dealer Larry Gagosian, Whitney Museum director Adam Weinberg, Pace Gallery second-in-command Marc Glimcher, PS1 director Klaus Biesenbach, and Performa director and curator RoseLee Goldberg. Nine high-profile players working with Artspace round out the list: artists Liam Gillick, Anish Kapoor, Takashi Murakami, Gerhard Richter, and Cindy Sherman; gallerists Jay Jopling, Nicolai Wallner, and David Zwirner; and Creative Time director Anne Pasternak.
The ArtReview Power 100
2. Hans Ulrich Obrist & Julia Peyton-Jones
5. Anton Vidokle, Julieta Aranda & Brian Kuan Wood
14. Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
20. Marc Spiegler & Annette Schönholzer
24. Matthew Slotover & Amanda Sharp
25. Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
26. Bice Curiger
27. Marian Goodman
28. Peter Fischli & David Weiss
29. Bernard Arnault
30. Nicholas Logsdail
31. Jay Jopling
32. Liam Gillick
33. Ann Philbin
34. Dominique Lévy & Robert Mnuchin
35. Victor Pinchuk
36. Franz West
37. Maja Hoffmann
38. Agnes Gund
39. Tim Blum & Jeff Poe
40. Dakis Joannou
41. Rosemarie Trockel
42. Iwona Blazwick
43. Udo Kittelmann
44. Monika Sprüth & Philomene Magers
45. Matthew Marks
46. Gavin Brown
47. Takashi Murakami
48. Jeffrey Deitch
49. Adam Szymczyk
50. Anish Kapoor
51. Emmanuel Perrotin
52. Okwui Enwezor
53. Boris Groys
54. Artur Zmijewski
55. Michael Morris & James Lingwood
56. William Wells & Yasser Gareb
57. Anne Pasternak
58. Michael Ringier
59. Steve McQueen
60. Sadie Coles
61. Daniel Buchholz
62. Toby Webster
63. Germano Celant
64. Damien Hirst
65. Slavoj Zizek
66. Jeff Koons
67. Thaddaeus Ropac
68. Brett Gorvy & Amy Cappellazzo
69. Tobias Meyer & Cheyenne Westphal
70. Chang Tsong-zung & Claire Hsu
71. Yana Peel & Candida Gertler
72. Christine Tohme
73. Richard Chang
74. Helga de Alvear
75. Walid Raad
76. Bernardo Paz
77. Tim Neuger & Burkhard Riemschneider
78. Massimo De Carlo
79. Mario Cristiani, Lorenzo Fiaschi & Maurizio Rigillo
80. Massimiliano Gioni
81. Dasha Zhukova
82. Vasif Kortun
83. David Hammons
84. Philip Tinari
85. Miuccia Prada
86. Shirin Neshat
87. Jason, Jennifer, Mera & Don Rubell
88. Christoph Büchel
89. Elena Filipovic
90. Sheikh Saud bin Muhammad bin Ali Al-Thani/Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani
91. Maureen Paley
92. Christian Boros & Karen Lohmann
93. Victoria Miro
94. Anita & Poju Zabludowicz
95. Kaja Silverman
96. Johann König
97. Nicolai Wallner
98. Franco Noero & Pierpaolo Falone
99. Leonid Mikhelson
100. Gregor Podnar