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Sunjung Kim, co-director of the 9th Gwangju Biennale: Roundtable, ranked among ArtReview’s Power 100 this year──the only Korean name to make the list. The Seoul-based curator at SAMUSO: Space for Contemporary Art, previously directed Asia’s largest biennale alongside five others in 2012. She placed 89th, moving up five spaces from 94th in the 2013.
Topping the list was Sir Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate Modern in London. “Nicholas Serota, who has appeared in the top ten of every list since the Power 100’s 2002 launch, was ranked number 1 this year on account of the way in which Tate has, since the launch of Tate Modern, consistently deployed an international?rather than a national?perspective on art production,” ArtReview said of its selection. “Tate has come to epitomise almost all the elements of the current ‘global’ art world, where the distribution of art is arguably now more important than its production. Tate Modern remains the most visited modern and contemporary museum in the world and the organisation has partnerships from Seoul and Sydney to Berlin and Oman.”
This year’s artistic director Jessica Morgan, has been Daskalopoulos Curator of international art at the Tate since 2010. She was recently appointed director of the Dia Art Foundation, where she will start her new post in January 2015.
Participating artists this year have also made the list, such as Pierre Huyghe (38), Rosemarie Trockel (63), Olafur Eliasson (88), and Akram Zaatari (94). Huyghe’s Name Announcer (2011) is performed at the entrance to Urs Fischer’s 38 E. 1st St. (2014), while Zaatari’s commissioned work Exploded Views (2014) can be found just outside the reconstructed apartment. Trockel’s glazed ceramic works can be found in Hall 1 of the Biennale and Eliasson’s No nights in summer, no days in winter (1994) is in Hall 4.
Other familiar names on the Power 100 list include former Gwangju Biennale directors Massimiliano Gioni (25), 10,000 Lives; Okwui Enwezor (24), Annual Report: A Year in Exhibitions; and Charles Esche (87), P_A_U_S_E, co-directed with Hou Hanru and Sung Wan Kyung. Ai Weiwei, who placed 15th, co-directed the fourth Gwangju Design Biennale in 2011 alongside Korean architect Seung H-Sang.
Previous participating artists include Anton Vidokle (30), Steve McQueen (39), Hito Steyerl (47), and Tino Sehgal (66).
ArtReview’s Power 100 list has been published annually since 2002. This year’s jury was made of up 26 members.
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