Top 30 Artists contemporary art Video / Film
Here you can find the most established artists worldwide who use mainly video and film as their preferred medium - ranked for attention since 2004, as measured by the Art Report method. This modern medium brought moving pictures in the gallery or the museum scene for the first time. The long existing prejudices against the video art and film medium is slowly but surely dismantled.
| ranking | name | nation | lives in | born | born in | medium | gain 2016 | total AR- |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nam June Paik | KR | New York | 1932 | Seoul | video / film | 5.7% | 21715 |
| 2 | Bill Viola | US | Long Beach | 1951 | New York | video / film | 1.7% | 19748 |
| 3 | Pipilotti Rist | CH | Los Angeles | 1962 | Grabs | video / film | 9.3% | 19654 |
| 4 | Rodney Graham | CA | Vancouver | 1949 | Vancouver | video / film | 4.7% | 19628 |
| 5 | Tacita Dean | GB | London | 1965 | Canterbury | video / film | 5.6% | 19601 |
| 6 | Pierre Huyghe | FR | Paris | 1962 | Paris | video / film | 13.6% | 19356 |
| 7 | Yoko Ono | JP | New York | 1933 | Tokyo | video / film | 8.3% | 19275 |
| 8 | Harun Farocki | CZ | Berlin | 1944 | Neutischein | video / film | 3.9% | 18222 |
| 9 | Yael Bartana | IL | Israel | 1970 | Afula | video / film | 2.6% | 16995 |
| 10 | Philippe Parreno | DZ | Paris | 1964 | Oran | video / film | 11.3% | 16041 |
| 11 | Tony Oursler | US | New York | 1957 | New York | video / film | 15.8% | 15353 |
| 12 | Joan Jonas | US | New York | 1936 | New York | video / film | 8.5% | 15317 |
| 13 | Matthew Barney | US | New York | 1967 | San Francisco | video / film | 6.9% | 14662 |
| 14 | Allora & Calzadilla | US | New York | 1971 | Philadelphia | video / film | 2.4% | 14385 |
| 15 | Rosa Barba | IT | Cologne | 1972 | Agrigento, Italien | video / film | 17.6% | 14184 |
| 16 | Paul Chan | CN | New York | 1973 | Hong Kong | video / film | 3.6% | 13683 |
| 17 | Walid Raad | LB | New York | 1967 | Chbanieh | video / film | 6.8% | 13632 |
| 18 | David Claerbout | BE | Brussels | 1969 | Kortrijk | video / film | 3.9% | 12906 |
| 19 | Hito Steyerl | DE | Berlin | 1966 | Munich | video / film | 28.8% | 12811 |
| 20 | Yang Fudong | CN | Shanghai | 1971 | Beijing | video / film | 1.5% | 12651 |
| 21 | Nathalie Djurberg | SE | Berlin | 1978 | Lysekil | video / film | 6.7% | 12544 |
| 22 | Artur Zmijewski | PL | Warsaw | 1966 | Warsaw | video / film | 1.9% | 12295 |
| 23 | Markus Schinwald | AT | Berlin | 1973 | Salzburg | video / film | 2.2% | 11998 |
| 24 | Isaac Julien | GB | London | 1960 | London | video / film | 5.8% | 11895 |
| 25 | Akram Zaatari | LB | Beirut | 1966 | video / film | 6.6% | 11740 | |
| 26 | Omer Fast | IL | Berlin | 1972 | Jerusalem | video / film | 7.6% | 11715 |
| 27 | Keren Cytter | IL | Amsterdam | 1977 | Tel Aviv | video / film | 3.4% | 11620 |
| 28 | Mark Leckey | GB | London | 1964 | Birkenhead | video / film | 15.4% | 11515 |
| 29 | Stan Douglas | CA | Vancouver | 1960 | Vancouver | video / film | 9.3% | 11374 |
| 30 | Cyprien Gaillard | FR | Paris | 1980 | Paris | video / film | 8.2% | 11300 |
