Find the most established contemporary art artists worldwide, regardless of their preferred medium, such as painting, installation, drawing, sculpture, photography or video - ranked by attention, as measured by the method of Art Report.
| ranking | artist's name | country | lives in | birth date | born in | medium | total A-points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gerhard Richter | DE | Düsseldorf | 1932 | Dresden | painting | 2898 |
| 2 | Bruce Nauman | US | Galisteo, New Mexico | 1941 | Fort Wayne | installation | 2464 |
| 3 | John Baldessari | US | Santa Monica | 1931 | National City | mixed media | 2311 |
| 4 | Franz West | AT | Vienna | 1947 | Vienna | sculpture / plastik | 2204 |
| 5 | Sigmar Polke | DE | Düsseldorf | 1941 | Oels | painting | 2078 |
| 6 | Cindy Sherman | US | New York | 1954 | Glen Ridge | photography | 1795 |
| 7 | Georg Baselitz | DE | Munich | 1938 | Deutschbaselitz | painting | 1737 |
| 8 | Harun Farocki | CZ | Berlin | 1944 | Neutischein | video / film | 1678 |
| 9 | Isa Genzken | DE | Berlin | 1948 | Bad Oldesloe | installation | 1647 |
| 10 | Lawrence Weiner | US | New York | 1942 | New York | mixed media | 1537 |
| 11 | Pipilotti Rist | CH | Los Angeles | 1962 | Grabs | video / film | 1437 |
| 12 | Wolfgang Tillmans | DE | London | 1968 | Remscheid | photography | 1415 |
| 13 | Olafur Eliasson | DK | Berlin | 1967 | Copenhagen | installation | 1409 |
| 14 | Imi Knoebel | DE | Düsseldorf | 1940 | Dessau | painting | 1406 |
| 15 | Jenny Holzer | US | Hoosick, N.Y. | 1950 | Gallipolis | installation | 1391 |
| 16 | Philippe Parreno | DZ | 1964 | Oran | video / film | 1377 | |
| 17 | Fischli & Weiss | CH | Zurich | 1952 | Zurich | photography | 1360 |
| 18 | Dan Graham | US | New York | 1942 | Urbana | mixed media | 1325 |
| 19 | Claire Fontaine | FR | Paris | 0 | mixed media | 1307 | |
| 20 | Rachel Harrison | US | New York | 1966 | New York | sculpture / plastik | 1304 |
| 21 | Rodney Graham | CA | Vancouver | 1949 | Vancouver | video / film | 1292 |
| 22 | Christian Jankowski | DE | Berlin | 1968 | Göttingen | mixed media | 1289 |
| 23 | Thomas Ruff | DE | Düsseldorf | 1958 | Zell | photography | 1289 |
| 24 | Cy Twombly | US | Rome | 1928 | Lexington | painting | 1289 |
| 25 | Ryan Gander | GB | London | 1976 | Chester | multimedia | 1274 |
| 26 | Hans-Peter Feldmann | DE | Düsseldorf | 1941 | Düsseldorf | mixed media | 1272 |
| 27 | Mike Kelley | US | Los Angeles | 1954 | Detroit | installation | 1262 |
| 28 | Rosemarie Trockel | DE | Cologne | 1952 | Schwerte | mixed media | 1262 |
| 29 | Tobias Rehberger | DE | Frankfurt | 1966 | Esslingen | installation | 1248 |
| 30 | Keren Cytter | IL | Amsterdam | 1977 | Tel Aviv | video / film | 1228 |