100 works of art that will define our age

Art of the now

100 works. The artist is present (2010) / Marina Abramovic

Sunflower seeds (2010) / Al Weiwei

The source (2012) / Doug Aitken

The blacker gachet (2005-6) / Mark Alexander

Fabiola (1994-) / Francis Alys

Gnaw (1992) / Janine Antoni

How it is (2009) / Miroslaw Balka

Flower thrower (2007) / Banksy

Cremaster 4 (1994) / Matthew Barney

Personnes (2010) / Christian Boltanski

Don't miss a sec (2003) / Monica Bonvicini

Maman (1999) / Louise Bourgeois

Sex (2003) / Glenn Brown

What my dad gave me (2008) / Chris Burden

De l'azur au Temple du Ciel (2004) / Daniel Buren

Take care of yourself (2007) / Sophie Calle

Yes Rasta (2000) / Patrick Cariou

L.O.V.E. (2010) / Maurizio Cattelan

Hell (1999-2000) / Jake and Dinos Chapman

The gates (1979-2005) / Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Self-portrait (1997) / Chuck Close

Work No. 227, the lights going on and off (2000) / Martin Creed

The pink tree (1999) / John Currin

Folk archive (2000-7) / Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane

Blotter (1993) / Peter Doig

Win, place or show (1998) / Stan Douglas

Against the wall (2009) / Marlene Dumas

The weather project (2003) / Olafur Eliasson

Prada Marfa (2005) / Elmgreen & Dragset

My bed (1998) / Tracey Emin

Benefits supervisor sleeping (1995) / Lucian Freud

Misty and Jimmy Paulette in a taxi, NYC (1991) / Nan Goldin

'Untitled' (Golden) (1995) / Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Angel of the north (1998) / Antony Gormley

Darkroom (2006) / Sheela Gowda

Line of control (2008) / Subodh Gupta

Chicago, Board of Trade II (1999) / Andreas Gursky

Myra (1995) / Marcus Harvey

Light sentence (1992) / Mona Hatoum

Witness (2000) / Susan Hiller

Cavemanman (2002) / Thomas Hirschhorn

For the love of God (2007) / Damien Hirst

Bigger trees near Warter or/ou Peinture sur le Motif pour le Nouvel Age Post-Photographique (2007) / David Hockney

Test site (2006) / Carsten Holler

Projections (1996-) / Jenny Holzer

Untitled (Passage II) (2002) / Cristina Iglesias

Cloud gate (2004) / Anish Kapoor

One million years (1969-) / On Kawara

Day is done (2005) / Mike Kelley

Stereoscope (1998-99) / William Kentridge

Die beruhmten Orden der Nacht (1997) / Anselm Kiefer

METRO-Net World Connection (1993-97) / Martin Kippenberger

Puppy (1992) / Jeff Koons

Untitled (Your body is a battleground) (1989) / Barbara Kruger

Au naturel (1994) / Sarah Lucas

Blockhead (2003) / Paul McCarthy

Deadpan (1997) / Steve McQueen

The clock (2010) / Christian Marclay

Casino (2005) / Annette Messager

Departures (2009) / Polly Morgan

Dead dad (1996-97) / Ron Mueck

Kaikai Kiki (2000-) / Takashi Murakami

Backlash blues (2004) / Wangechi Mutu

For beginners (all the combinations of the thumb and fingers) (2010) / Bruce Nauman

The Coral Reef (2000) / Mike Nelson

Rebellious silence (1994) / Shirin Neshat

Leviathan Thot (2006) / Ernesto Neto

The Holy Virgin Mary (1996) / Chris Ofili

Black kites (1997) / Gabriel Orozco

Breathless (2001) / Cornelia Parker

The vanity of small differences (2012) / Grayson Perry

Self (1991-) Marc Quinn

The Atlas Group archive (1999-) / Walid Raad

Vater (2007) / Neo Rauch

Dog woman (1994) / Paula Rego

Cage (2006) / Gerhard Richter

Open my glade (flatten) (2000) / Pipilotti Rist

Untitled (2003) / Doris Salcedo

Propped (1992) / Jenny Saville

The beauty of death (unmade) / Gregor Schneider

Doric (2008-) / Sean Scully

Blind spot (2002-3) / Richard Serra

The garden of earthly delights (2003) / Raqib Shaw

Clowns (2003-4) / Cindy Sherman

245 m3 (2006) / Santiago Sierra

Home within home (2008-) / Do Ho Suh

Freischwimmer (2003-) / Wolfgang Tillmans

Apartment (2002-) / Rirkrit Tiravanija

Pop (1993) / Gavin Turk

Easter (2006) / Luc Tuymans

The rose (2008) / Cy Twombly

The greeting (1995) / Bill Viola

Gone, an historical romance of a Civil War as it occurred between the dusky thighs of one young negress and her heart (1994) / Kara Walker

After 'Invisible Man' by Ralph Ellison, the Prologue (1999-2000) / Jeff Wall

State Britain (2007) / Mark Wallinger

Signs that say what you want them to say and not signs that say what someone else wants you to say (1992-93) / Gillian Wearing

The nameless library (2000) / Rachel Whiteread

Seven intellectuals in a bamboo forest (2003-7) / Yang Fudong

Bloodlines: big family (1993-) / Zhang Xiaogang

Democracies (2009) / Artur Żmijewski.