Ratings of Russian artists - representatives of contemporary (contemporary) art are calculated from the database of auction results ARTinvestment.RU. Criteria - the maximum auction price of the product and the volume of auction sales in dollars.

In the rating of contemporary (contemporary) artists we included authors born after 1945, whose peak of creative activity was at the end of the 20th - beginning of the XXI century, working in the context of the era and using innovative forms of visual expression in their works - atypical art materials and techniques, Video art, installation, etc.

Like all other ratings of artists from ARTinvestment.RU, the rating of contemporary (contemporary) art masters is the result of an impersonal analysis of prices on the auction market of the author's works and does not pretend to determine the value, significance and role of the artist (or art group) in the context of modern culture.

Available ratings:

• Auction’s sales volume for the last 12 months
• Auction’s sales volume since 2000
• Most expensive artworks since 2000
• Most expensive artworks in the last 12 months