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Anita Ruth Zabludowicz ( ; born December 1960) is a British contemporary art collector and philanthropist. She is married to
Poju Zabludowicz Chaim "Poju" Zabludowicz (born 6 April 1953) is a Finnish-British-Israeli billionaire businessman, art collector and philanthropist.Midgley, Dominic (5 March 2010)"FINN CITY..." (London). Retrieved 23 June 2013. Early life and education Chaim ...
. Since the 1990s, Anita and Poju Zabludowicz have been accumulating a 500-artist, 5,000-piece collection of contemporary artwork, the Zabludowicz Collection. In 2015 Zabludowicz received an
OBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ...
for her services to the arts. She appears on Artnet's ''The 100 Most Powerful Women in Art'' list."The 100 Most Powerful Women in Art: Part Three"
''Artnet''. 21 October 2014. Retrieved 30 August 2016.


Biography

Anita Steinman was born in
Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle upon Tyne, or simply Newcastle ( , Received Pronunciation, RP: ), is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England. It is England's northernmost metropolitan borough, located o ...
, England. Her mother was an art historian and her father, Harry Steinman, was a wholesale businessman and the local chairman of the
Variety Club Variety, the Children's Charity is a charitable organization founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1927. History On October 10, 1927, a group of eleven men involved in show business set up a social club which they named the "Variety Club". On ...
. She studied interior architecture at the
Inchbald School of Design The Inchbald School of Design was founded in Chelsea, London, England in 1960 by Jacqueline Ann Duncan (then Jacqueline Inchbald, married to and working with designer Michael Inchbald), in the family home at 10 Milner Street. Description The impe ...
, London. Zabludowicz is married to Finnish-born
Poju Zabludowicz Chaim "Poju" Zabludowicz (born 6 April 1953) is a Finnish-British-Israeli billionaire businessman, art collector and philanthropist.Midgley, Dominic (5 March 2010)"FINN CITY..." (London). Retrieved 23 June 2013. Early life and education Chaim ...
. Anita and Poju Zabludowicz have sponsored exhibitions and art fairs, and organised various fundraising events. In 2014, they donated funds towards the realisation of the planned Helsinki Guggenheim. The ''Zabludowicz Center for Autoimmune Diseases'' opened in
Sheba Medical Center Chaim Sheba Medical Center at Tel HaShomer (), also known as Tel HaShomer Hospital, is the largest hospital in Israel, located in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan in the Tel HaShomer neighborhood, Israel. In 2025, ''Newsweek'' ranked it as ...
through Anita and Poju Zabludowicz's donations. The center centralises under one roof all aspects of autoimmune research and treatment, and brings together physicians and researchers from multidisciplinary fields such as internal medicine, clinical immunology, autoimmunity, rheumatology, ophthalmology, neurology, obstetrics and gynaecology. In June 2016, it was announced that ARTA, a fine art shipping startup based in New York, has raised $1 million in capital from a group of institutional and strategic investors, among them Anita and Poju Zabludowicz.


Art collection

Zabludowicz first began collecting modern British art in 1994 when she bought a painting by
Ben Nicholson Benjamin Lauder Nicholson, OM (10 April 1894 – 6 February 1982) was an English painter of abstract compositions (sometimes in low relief), landscapes, and still-life. He was one of the leading promoters of abstract art in England. Backg ...
.


Zabludowicz Collection

Since the 1990s, Anita and Poju Zabludowicz have been accumulating a 500-artist, 5,000-piece collection of contemporary artwork. They exhibit their private art collection at three different locations, one of them being ''176'', a gallery in a former 19th-century
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chapel in
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, north London. Inaugurated in 2007, the Zabludowicz Collection's London project space presents exhibitions of collection works and new commissions by artists linked to the collection.
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houses a selection of works from the Zabludowicz Collection. The programme at 1500 consists of temporary exhibitions and events whilst the lobby is open to the public during office hours. Across three locations on Sarvisalo, an island in Loviisa, Finland, the Zabludowicz Collection has initiated an international residency programme for invited artists. The residency programme offers an environment for the production of art. In November 2015, it was announced that the Zabludowicz Collection will launch an artist residency programme in Las Vegas.


Reputation

Some art magazines and websites have listed Anita and Poju Zabludowicz in their annual rankings: * Anita and Poju Zabludowicz appear in
ArtReview ''ArtReview'' is an international contemporary art magazine based in London, founded in 1948. Its sister publication, ''ArtReview Asia'', was established in 2013. History Launched as a fortnightly broadsheet in February 1949 by a retired country ...
's ''Power 100'' lists for 2006 to 2014 which assess those most powerful in the art world. In 2014, they were listed at number 97. * They appear in ''
ARTnews ''ARTnews'' is an American art magazine, based in New York City. It covers visual arts from ancient to contemporary times. It is the oldest and most widely distributed art magazine in the world. ''ARTnews'' has a readership of 180,000 in 124 co ...
s ''Top 200 Collectors'' lists for 2005–2019 which compile the world's most active art buyers. * Larry's List, an online database of art collectors, which ranks collectors according to Internet presence, institutional engagement, art fair participation, communications platforms, and the physical visibility and scale of their collection, has ranked them 3rd in the world. * They appear in ArtLyst's ''Alt Power 100'' lists for 2011–2019 which compile art industry insiders who have made a major contribution to the discipline of contemporary art. * They also appear in
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's ''The World's Top 100 Art Collectors'' lists for 2015–2016 and ''100 Most Influential People in the Art World''. * Anita Zabludowicz appears in
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''Top 100 Art World Instagrams''.


Personal life

Zabludowicz and her family reside mainly on
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in
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, a street in London referred to as Billionaire's Row, and have homes in
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,
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, and Sarvisalo, a small island in Finland.Midgley, Dominic (5 March 2010)
"FINN CITY..."
(London). Retrieved 23 June 2013.
Korin-Lieber, Stella (4 February 2013)
"Pujo Zabludowicz mulls raising stake in El Al parent"
''Globes''. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
They purchased the house on The Bishops Avenue in 1989 and later purchased the adjacent house in 1997.Mills, T., Miller, D., Griffin, T., & Aked, H. (2013)
"The Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre Giving peace a chance?"
''Spinwatch'' (Glasgow). Retrieved 25 December 2013.
The £60 million pair of "his and hers" mansions have an adjoining art gallery. They also own a 120-ft yacht. In 2020, Zabludowicz was ranked the 19th richest woman in the United Kingdom. The ''
Sunday Times Rich List 2021 The ''Sunday Times'' Rich List 2021 is the 33rd annual survey of the wealthiest people resident in the United Kingdom, published by ''The Sunday Times'' online on 21 May 2021. The list was edited by Robert Watts who succeeded long-term compiler ...
'' of the wealthiest people in the United Kingdom ranked Anita and Poju Zabludowicz 111th with a personal net worth of £1,500 million.


Awards

* 2015: Zabludowicz received an
OBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ...
for her services to the arts."New Year's honours 2016: the full list"
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The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardi ...
'' (London). 30 December 2015. Retrieved 31 December 2015.


References

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