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Here you will find contemporary artists worldwide who are over 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 is one condition for 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 2012 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yin Xiuzhen | CN | Beijing | 1963 | Peking | installation | 603.4 % |
| 2 | Maria Lassnig | AT | Vienna | 1919 | Kappel | painting | 562.3 % |
| 3 | Ghada Amer | EG | Paris | 1963 | Kairo | installation | 494.6 % |
| 4 | Maria Thereza Alves | BR | Berlin | 1961 | photography | 474.6 % | |
| 5 | Jörg Sasse | DE | Düsseldorf | 1962 | Bad Salzuflen | photography | 428.3 % |
| 6 | Eric Fischl | US | New York | 1948 | New York | painting | 426.8 % |
| 7 | Yvonne Rainer | US | San Francisco | 1934 | San Francisco | video / film | 407.2 % |
| 8 | Annie Leibovitz | US | New York | 1949 | Westbury | photography | 396.8 % |
| 9 | Barbara Hammer | US | New York | 1939 | Hollywood | video / film | 393.8 % |
| 10 | Ida Applebroog | US | New York | 1929 | painting | 382 % | |
| 11 | Thierry De Cordier | BE | Ostende | 1954 | drawing | 381.6 % | |
| 12 | Jim Hodges | US | New York | 1957 | mixed media | 371.2 % | |
| 13 | Doug & Mike Starn | US | New York | 1961 | Absecon | installation | 369.9 % |
| 14 | David Reed | US | New York | 1946 | San Diego | painting | 348.7 % |
| 15 | Roee Rosen | IL | Jerusalem | 1963 | Rehovot | mixed media | 347.8 % |
| 16 | Matthias Müller | DE | Cologne | 1961 | Bielefeld | video / film | 340 % |
| 17 | Tony Oursler | US | New York | 1957 | New York | video / film | 338.7 % |
| 18 | Claude Lévêque | FR | Montreuil | 1953 | photography | 328.4 % | |
| 19 | Michael Schmidt | DE | Berlin | 1945 | Berlin | photography | 326.1 % |
| 20 | Ulrike Lienbacher | DE | Vienna | 1963 | Oberndorf | drawing | 311 % |
| 21 | Eduardo Arroyo | ES | Paris | 1927 | painting | 307.7 % | |
| 22 | Ilya & Emilia Kabakov | UA | New York | 1933 | Dnejpropetrowsk | painting | 306.5 % |
| 23 | Mary Heilmann | US | New York | 1940 | San Francisco | painting | 302.3 % |
| 24 | Dirk Braeckman | BE | Gent | 1958 | photography | 301.1 % | |
| 25 | Ewa Partum | PL | Berlin | 1945 | Grodzisk Mazowiecki | mixed media | 295.2 % |
| 26 | Kerry James Marshall | US | Chicago | 1955 | Birmingham | painting | 290.5 % |
| 27 | Jonas Mekas | LT | New York | 1922 | video / film | 288.9 % | |
| 28 | Urs Lüthi | CH | Munich | 1947 | Lucerne | photography | 287.8 % |
| 29 | Rachel Whiteread | GB | London | 1963 | London | sculpture / plastik | 287.3 % |
| 30 | Jochen Lempert | DE | Hamburg | 1958 | Moers | photography | 282.7 % |
