The Alt Power 100 2019 Artlyst is our annual way of acknowledging and thanking all of the recipients for making a difference to the ‘art world’ that we inhabit. Now in its 9th edition, this UK-centric list is a celebration of Artists, Educators, Philanthropists, Curators and art industry insiders who remain the core of our 2019 choices.
“Art not Money Makes The World Go Around” – PCR
2019 has been a strong year for international events like the Venice Biennale, and a host of memorable and inclusive exhibitions, fairs and biennials.
If you are driven by curiosity and aesthetics and realise, like us that the art world isn’t just driven by money, then continue to read.
A number of new and imaginative enterprises outlined in the Alt Power 100 2019 Lyst will hopefully help bring Art to a broader audience, as well as focus on academic and critical engagement. This in itself is cause for celebration.
The contemporary art world’s most essential influencers and power brokers, many who remain unrepresented on other lists, are noted below.
Top 10 Alt Power 100 2019 Artlyst
1. Maurizio Cattelan – Artist (Top Photo)
2. The Collective – Artists
3. Ralph Rugoff – Director of Hayward Gallery
4. Nan Goldin – Artist
5. Maria Balshaw – Head of Tate
6. Rebecca Salter PRA – Artist and First Female RA President
7. Olafur Eliasson – Artist
8. Kara Walker – Artist
9. Zoe Whitley – Curator
10. Fatos Ustek – Curator
Alt Power 100 2019 Artlyst In Alphabetical Order
1. Larry Achiampong – artist, recipient of Hamlyn Award 2019
2. Sir David Adjaye OBE RA – Ghanaian British architect
3. Jane Alison – Head of Visual Arts Barbican
4. David Anfam – Curator, writer, authority of modern American art.
5. Vanya Balogh – Artist/curator Mounting art Exhibitions in unusual spaces
6. Maria Balshaw CBE – Director of Tate,
7. Banksy – Political street artist
8. Iwona Blazwick OBE – Director of Art at the Whitechapel Gallery
9. Erica Bolton/Jane Quinn – PR gurus at Bolton & Quinn Ltd.
10. Eliza Bonham Carter – Head of RA Schools
11. Bruce Boucher – Director of the Sir John Soane’s Museum.
12. A A Bronson – Artist, healer, curator, founder member General Idea
13. Maurizio Cattelan – Post Pop Artist creator ‘America’ a golden toilet and duct-taped banana ‘Comedian’ the talk of the 2019 Miami Art Basel
14. Sheryll Catto – Co-Director ActionSpace charity supporting artists with learning disabilities
15. Lee Cavaliere – Curator and founder of The Sixteen Trust
16. Aaron Cezar – Director of Delfina Foundation
17. Judy Chicago – American feminist artist
18. Martin Clark – Director of the Camden Arts Centre
19. The Collective – Turner prize winners 2019 Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo, Tai Shani
20. Nicholas Cullinan – Director of National Portrait Gallery
21. Tacita Dean – Artist, recipient of Robson Orr TenTen Award 2019
22. Jeremy Deller – Artist, Turner Prize Winner who designed a permanent memorial for Peterloo Massacre in Manchester
23. Edmund de Waal – artist, writer, installation in Venice 2019
24. Elvira Dyangani Ose – Director The Showroom, Turner Prize Judge 2019.
25. Olafur Eliasson – Danish-Icelandic artist known for sculptures and large-scale installation art employing elemental materials such as light, water, and air temperature.
26. Bruce Eves – Artist, Former Programme Director for Centre for Experimental Art and Communication (CEAC) LGBT+ Activist
27. Alex Farquharson – Director Tate Britain,
28. Hedwig FIjen – Director of Manifesta
29. Gabriele Finaldi – Director of the National Gallery, London
30. Franko B – Performance artist
31. Carl Freedman – Gallerist putting Margate on the map
32. Liz Gilmore – Director Hastings Contemporary
33. RoseLee Goldberg – Director of Performa
34. Nan Goldin – artist for highlighting oxycontin problem
35. Sir Antony Gormley RA – RA retrospective 2019
36. Kelly Grovier – Poet, literary critic, art historian, author of 100 Works of Art That Will Define Our Age
37. Susan Haire – Artist, President of the London Group and Director of The Cello Factory
38. Jane Hamlyn – Chair Paul Hamlyn Foundation Director of The Frith Street Gallery
39. Margot Heller – Director of South London Gallery
40. Mark Hix – Chef, Restaurateur, Gallerist and creator of the Hix Awards for emerging art
41. Paul Hobson – Director of Modern Art Oxford
42. Vincent Honoré – Curator of Kiss My Genders Hayward Gallery
43. Caro Howell – Director Foundling Museum
44. Alistair Hudson – Director of Manchester Art Galleries
45. Tristram Hunt – Director of V&A
46. Anne Imhof – Performance artist, Tanks Tate Modern 2019
47. Waldemar Januszczak – Art Critic
48. Arthur Jafa – video artist
49. Isaac Julien CBE- Filmmaker and installation artist
50. Robin Klassnik – Founder and Director of Matt’s Gallery
51. Bettina Korek – CEO of the Serpentine Galleries
52. Barbara Kruger – Conceptual artist, mural in Walthamstow Town Square for Art Night 2019
53. Christopher Le Brun – Artist/Outgoing President of the Royal Academy
54. Clare Lilley – Director of Programme YSP, curator of Frieze Sculpture
55. James Lingwood and Michael Morris – Co-Directors of Artangel
56. Edward Lucie-Smith – Art critic and senior art tastemaker
57. Tim Marlow – Critic, broadcaster and outgoing Head of Exhibitions at Royal Academy
58. Sarah McCrory – Director of Goldsmith’s CCA Gallery
59. Jock McFadyen RA – Co-ordinator RA Summer show 2019
60. John McGrath – Artistic Director Manchester International Festival
61. Steve McQueen – CBE and Turner Prize-winning video artist turned Oscar-winning Filmmaker, Year 3 project Tate Britain
62. Sarah Monk: Director of London Art Fair
63. Frances Morris – Director of Tate Modern
64. Sarah Munro – Director of the BALTIC
65. Andrew Nairne – Director Kettle’s Yard OBE in New Year’s Honours
66. Helen Nisbet – Curator of Art Night 2019
67. Hans Ulrich Obrist – Serpentine Gallery’s Co-directors of Exhibitions and Programmes.
68. Maureen Paley – Gallerist opened a project space in Brighton
69. Sir Jack and Lady Frances Petchey (Frances Segelman Sculptor) philanthropic inspiring young inner-city people to achieve
70. James Peto – Head of Public Programmes Wellcome Collection.
71. Michael Petry – Multi-media artist, writer and curator. Director of MOCA London, co-founder of the Museum of Installation
72. Victoria Pomery – Director of Turner Contemporary
73. Ralph Rugoff, Director Hayward Gallery, Art Night, Venice Biennale 2019
74. Rebecca Salter PRA – Artist elected First female President of the Royal Academy of Arts
75. Rebecca Scott and Mark Woods – Artist power couple – founders of Cross Lane Projects in Kendal Cumbria
76. Sean Scully RA – Abstract Painter twice nominated for Turner prize
77. Nicholas Serota – Chair of Arts Council England
78. Conrad Shawcross – Sculptor of rule-based, poetic geometric sculpture
79. Victoria Siddall – Director of Frieze Art Fair
80. Anthony Spira – Director of MK Gallery, newly opened in 2019
81. Alexander Sturgis – Director of Ashmolean
82. Bridget Riley – Artist, retrospective at Hayward Gallery 2019
83. Dame Paula Rego – Artist, retrospective show at MK Gallery
84. Alex Ruger – New CEO Royal Academy of Arts
85. Bob and Roberta Smith OBE – Contemporary British Artist known for painting slogan-bearing signage in support of various political causes.
86. Donald Smith – Director of Exhibitions, Chelsea Space
87. Emma Talbot – artist, nominee Max Mara prize for Women 2019
88. Simon Tarrant – Artist/Director Emerald Winter Pride Art Awards
89. Paul Thompson – Vice-Chancellor of the Royal College of Art,
90. Jeremy Till – Head of Central Saint Martins
91. Russell Tovey – Actor, influencer, collector, guest curator Margate Festival 2019
92. Dr Nicola Triscott – CEO FACT, Liverpool
93. Fatos Ustek – Curator, newly appointed Director of Liverpool Biennial
94. Simon Wallis – Director Hepworth Museum,
95. Kara Walker – American contemporary artist – Hyundai Commission Turbine Hall Tate
96. Zoe Whitley – Senior Curator, Hayward Gallery, curator of British commission at Venice Biennale 2019
97. Nick Willing – Documentary filmmaker, Unstoppable: Sean Scully & the Art of Everything
98. Rose Wylie – Octigenerian Artist
100. Anita and Poju Zabludowicz – Collectors, Founders the Zabludowicz Collection, London
All Photos: P C Robinson © Artlyst 2019 Except Rebecca Salter via YouTube
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