Judging from the number of seven, eight-, and even nine-figure prices at auction this past year, there is clearly no shortage of trophy-hunters around the world to continue powering the global art market boom.
While money—and lots of it—is clearly a key prerequisite for collectors to play at the top level of the art game, we’re also interested in surveying the landscape to find out which players are adopting the most-innovative approaches to collecting, whether its keeping an eye out for the freshest work from cutting-edge talent, curating radical new shows or implementing new display formats, or finding and creating new spaces to explore ideas. Here is artnet’s selections for the most innovative collectors of 2015.