Where and when is Zero Art Fair happening this summer?
Zero Art Fair 2025 is hosted by The FLAG Art Foundation, 545 West 25th Street, 9th Floor, NYC 10001. This is an important change from our Hudson Valley venue last summer. The fair will open to the public with a preview exhibition on July 8th and run through July 10th from 11am-5pm. There will be a public reception for the closing of the preview exhibition Thursday July 10th from 5 – 7pm. Ticketed visitors will be able to collect works through our contract on July 11th and 12th from 11am – 5pm.
What do I need to know to visit Zero Art Fair for the preview exhibition?
Zero Art Fair is open to the public without any advance ticketing from 11am-5pm during the Preview Exhibition days, July 8-10. We are grateful to have the opportunity to exhibit artworks by every participating artist during the three- day preview. Artworks are available for sale during the preview exhibition.
Please join us for a public reception for the closing of the preview exhibition Thursday July 10th from 5 – 7pm.
What do I need to know to visit Zero Art Fair and collect a work of art?
Zero Art Fair is open via free timed collector tickets during the Fair days, July 11-12. To be eligible to receive a collecting ticket you must register in advance. Registration for tickets has closed.
Registrants who received a timed ticket were notified via Eventbrite or waitlisted.
If you received a timed ticket and checked out of registration as a guest, you will need to create a collector account here. Please check your email for the password to the new collector registration page. If you cannot find the password, please email us at zeroartfair@gmail.com. You can also sign up for your account at the fair.
If I receive a collector ticket, what happens when I come to the Fair during my timed entry?
Before you visit, please read the Zero Art Fair contract to be sure you understand your rights and responsibilities as a Zero Art Fair collector. Make sure you bring your Zero Art Fair account username and password so you can access your account on your phone or one of our laptops.
When you arrive at The FLAG Art Foundation, show your Eventbrite ticket at the front desk and head up to the 9th Floor. Then, feel free to browse the available artworks on view. Once you have identified an artwork you are interested in acquiring for free, bring the ID tag for the work to a Zero Art Fair attendant. You may hold only one ID tag at a time while you make your decision! If an artwork you are interested in is not on display it may still be available, please speak with an attendant. Attendants will prompt you to log in to the Zero Art Fair website on your phone and help you execute the contract electronically. We will have wifi available.
After you’ve signed the contract, the Zero Art Fair team will take the work down and help you repack it in its original shipping materials to take home immediately. Zero Art Fair cannot store artworks on-site for later pickup, or arrange for transportation of works. If you’re interested in a larger work of art, confirm ahead of time that it will fit in your available transport. The largest artworks are likely to fit into a Lyft or Uber XL vehicles. It is your responsibility to confirm that the artwork will fit into the vehicle.
Can you tell me about the contract like I’m five?
While it’s important to read and understand the contract, here is a simple overview. After signing the contract at the fair, you can take the work home. Over the next five years, you are basically storing the work for the artist. During this period of time, ownership gradually transfers to you! After this 5 year “vesting period,” title of the work automatically transfers to you. While you are now the new owner of the artwork, the artist retains a 50% stake in the value of the artwork if you sell it for any reason.
What happens during the vesting period?
During the vesting period the artist may borrow the artwork back for exhibition, or can retrieve the work if they have an offer from someone else to buy it. If this happens and there is another person who wishes to buy the work at a given price, you have a right of first refusal to buy it instead, with a discount of 20% off that price for each full year you’ve held the work. So, for instance, if a third party wishes to buy the work you acquired from Zero Art Fair for $1000 after you’ve held the work for two full years, you may buy the work for 40% off, or $600.
What happens after the vesting period?
After five years, you own the artwork and have the right to sell it. If this happens, the artist is owed 50% of that sale price. The new owner of the work continues to be bound by the terms of the Zero Art Fair contract, and if they or any other future owner ever sells it, the artist is due a 10% resale royalty from each sale. It is your responsibility to contact the artist upon sale of the work and arrange to pay them their 50% share. This responsibility passes on to any subsequent buyers to pay the artist their resale royalty for life of the artist’s copyright.
Is this a replacement for the art market?
This is not meant to replace the market. It is an experiment that can exist alongside it. We hope that this artwork will have value in the future, if a collector choses to sell it after the vesting period.
Did you invent this idea?
No, but this is our twist on an idea that’s been out there for decades. Here are some of our inspirations and antecedents:
Seth Siegelaub and Robert Projansky’s The Artist’s Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement
Adam Simon’s Fine Art Adoption Network
Craig Platt’s Trashed exhibition in Los Angeles
Sean Naftel’s Free Art at #Rank
Yevginiy Fiks’ Adopt Lenin at Winkleman Gallery
Cameron Rowland’s rental agreements
Jade Townsend’s Crazy Amazing Garage Sale at Auxiliary Projects
William Powhida’s Store-to-Own contract and project
Co-sponsored by our host The FLAG Art Foundation and Gagosian
545 W 25th St #9, New York, NY 10001
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