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Anita & Poju
Lisa Dennison Zabludowicz
Category: Auction house Category: Collectors
Nationality: American Nationality: British
Last Year: 80 Last Year: 84
Lisa Dennison recently left the of Sotheby’s personally requested London-based collectors Anita and
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum that she join their team, and a Poju Zabludowicz have spent the
in New York, where she had worked position (Executive Vice President year putting the finishing touches
for nearly 30 years, for Sotheby’s of Sotheby’s North America) was to their new north London ‘project
North America. The move set created especially for her. Dennison, space’, known simply as 176. The
tongues wagging and was taken as who counts artists Julian Schnabel, converted nineteenth-century grand
yet more proof that leaders in the not- Jeff Koons, Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Methodist chapel will house their
for-profit sector were increasingly Serra and Claes Oldenburg as growing collection of contemporary
gravitating towards commercial friends, along with collectors Eli art, which has been one of the most
enterprises. Dennison was made Broad and Peter Brant, will be active private UK collections in
director of the Guggenheim in 2005, instrumental in helping to boost recent years – it now holds more
replacing Thomas Krens (who many sales of postwar and contemporary than 1,000 works by more than 350 Gateshead’s BALTIC. While Poju
felt had outstayed his welcome at art for the company, which are artists, with a focus on emerging heads the investment firm Tamares,
the helm of the museum), and her currently lagging behind those of talent. Headed by curator Elizabeth Anita sits on the advisory board of
departure from the institution has Christie’s. Neilson, 176 will be a venue for Phillips de Pury & Company, and is a
been met with dismay from some temporary exhibitions and projects, trustee of Camden Arts Centre and
– notably a critic on this list – who and host a resident curator and artist Tate Foundation. The couple have
feel that the museum will flounder each year. It opened in September made considerable donations to
without her. Her directorship may with highlights from the collection, Tate, while continuing to encourage
have been short-lived but her mettle while another exhibition from the emerging art through their support
did not go unnoticed. Tobias Meyer collection runs concurrently at of London’s Zoo Art Fair.
The London-based Muriel and
Freddie Salem are two of the quiet
British base of collectors who have
contributed to London’s newfound
(and still tenuous) place as a centre
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of the contemporary artworld.
Their Cranford Collection reads
like a mini-retrospective of the
last quarter-century in British and
Muriel &
international art, with work from
Freddie Salem Ebrahim Melamed
artists such as Sarah Lucas, Damien Category: Collectors Category: Collector
Hirst and Gillian Wearing, as well as Nationality: British Nationality: Iranian
from younger artists Rebecca Warren Last Year: New Last Year: New
and Mark Titchner, among others.
The collection has been put together While it seems that everyone with While Honart may showcase
by Andrew Renton, the director of five or six spare zeroes at the end Melamed’s private collection, it
curatorial studies at Goldsmiths in of his bank balance is opening will also bring artists from abroad
London. The Salems are also major a museum, it takes more than a to exhibit and discuss their work,
contributors to programmes in private venue to have a real impact, creating a dialogue between
London, including Artangel. unless one’s space happens to be Iranian artists and their foreign
located in a city known less for art counterparts. Honart is located in
ollection (80)
than for ayatollahs. Such is the case a city of more than twelve million,
with Ebrahim Melamed, whose with a long-standing tradition of
5,000-square-meter Honart art collecting and cultural engagement,
abludowicz C
museum is slated to open in Tehran but Tehran has had little exposure
ourtesy Z
in 2008. Melamed, who was born to contemporary art since the
7
9), C
in Iran and raised in Switzerland, Shah was deposed in 1979. Projects
has been collecting since 1995 and like Melamed’s have the potential to Sanders (
now owns work by Anish Kapoor, establish much-needed exchange
Sylvie Fleurie, Olafur Eliasson, Ugo between West and Middle East.
eenfield-
Rondinone and fellow Iranian Shirin
imothy Gr
Neshat, among others.
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