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Here you will find contemporary artists worldwide who are under the age of 50 years and have taken over the past year the highest percentage gain in attention in the art scene. A score of 50 points in the year before last year is a condition in the selection, as well as an overall score of at least 500 in the years since 2004..
| ranking | artist's name | country | lives in | birth date | born in | medium | gain 2011 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Akram Zaatari | LB | Beirut | 1966 | video / film | 878.1 % | |
| 2 | Taryn Simon | US | New York | 1975 | New York | photography | 686.3 % |
| 3 | George Shaw | GB | London | 1966 | painting | 656.8 % | |
| 4 | Goldin & Senneby | SE | Stockholm | 2004 | installation | 626.2 % | |
| 5 | Ragnar Kjartansson | IS | Reykjavik | 1976 | Reykjavik | multimedia | 533.3 % |
| 6 | Sofie Thorsen | DK | Vienna | 1971 | installation | 520 % | |
| 7 | Helen Mirra | US | Berlin | 1970 | Rochester | sculpture / plastik | 518.3 % |
| 8 | Wael Shawky | EG | Alexandria | 1971 | multimedia | 483.3 % | |
| 9 | Dane Mitchell | NZ | Berlin | 1976 | Auckland | installation | 467.9 % |
| 10 | William E. Jones | US | Los Angeles | 1968 | video / film | 459.1 % | |
| 11 | Julian Göthe | DE | Berlin | 1976 | painting | 454.2 % | |
| 12 | FOS | DK | Copenhagen | 1971 | Copenhagen | installation | 429.2 % |
| 13 | Philippe Decrauzat | CH | Lausanne | 1974 | Lausanne | painting | 415.1 % |
| 14 | Harald Thys | BE | Brussels | 1966 | Wilrijk | mixed media | 414.2 % |
| 15 | Jos de Gruyter | BE | Amsterdam | 1965 | Geel | mixed media | 414.2 % |
| 16 | Edgar Arceneaux | US | Los Angeles | 1972 | Los Angeles | installation | 409.6 % |
| 17 | Bethan Huws | CH | Paris | 1971 | mixed media | 396.7 % | |
| 18 | Almagul Menlibayeva | KZ | Berlin | 1969 | Almaty | multimedia | 390.7 % |
| 19 | Laurel Nakadate | US | New York | 1975 | photography | 378.6 % | |
| 20 | Yoshua Okon | MX | Mexico City | 1970 | video / film | 370.6 % | |
| 21 | Su-Mei Tse | LU | Luxemburg | 1973 | multimedia | 367.1 % | |
| 22 | Leonor Antunes | PT | Lissabon | 1972 | Lissabon | sculpture / plastik | 360.4 % |
| 23 | Mette Tronvoll | NO | Berlin | 1965 | Trondheim | photography | 357.3 % |
| 24 | Kerstin Brätsch & Adele Röder (DAS INSTITUT) | CH | New York | 2007 | Hamburg | mixed media | 346.2 % |
| 25 | Haris Epaminonda | CY | Berlin | 1980 | Nicosia | mixed media | 343.6 % |
| 26 | Mai-Thu Perret | CH | Berlin | 1978 | installation | 324.4 % | |
| 27 | Cathy Wilkes | IE | Glasgow | 1967 | installation | 320.9 % | |
| 28 | Navin Rawanchaikul | TH | Tokyo | 1971 | video / film | 319 % | |
| 29 | Swoon | US | New York | 1976 | mixed media | 311.8 % | |
| 30 | Haroon Mirza | GB | London | 1977 | London | installation | 307.5 % |
