[2] Iwan Wirth was born in 1970[2] and spent his early life in St. Gallen, Switzerland,[3] where his father was an architect and his mother was a schoolteacher.
[4] Wirth opened a commercial gallery in 1986 at the age of sixteen,[5] and began working as a private dealer in Zurich in 1990.
[8] In 2014, Wirth opened an arts complex in Bruton, Somerset, which includes the Roth Bar & Grill restaurant and a guesthouse hotel in the Durslade Farmhouse.
[14] In 2015, Iwan Wirth and Manuela Hauser were ranked number one on ArtReview's list of 'most powerful and influential figures in the art world'.
[7] They maintain apartments in London and New York[8] and a holiday home on Menorca's Isla del Rey, designed by Luis Laplace.