Zeit Contemporary Art is a New York art dealership, advisory, and research platform dedicated to modern, postwar, and contemporary art.
Zeit Contemporary Art is a New York art dealership, advisory, and research platform dedicated to modern, postwar, and contemporary art.
ZCA approaches each work of art as both an object and a historical proposition—something to be collected, studied, presented, and preserved with equal care.
Founded in New York in 2016, Zeit Contemporary Art brings together the activities of an art dealership, advisory, and research platform. Its program is shaped by art-historical rigor, market knowledge, and sustained attention to the individual work of art.
ZCA develops historical and contemporary projects that place artworks within the cultural, material, and intellectual contexts from which they emerged. Exhibitions, viewing rooms, research, and publications are conceived as connected forms of presentation.
Alongside its public program, ZCA advises collectors, conducts private sales, and supports the long-term development and stewardship of collections. This work includes acquisitions and deaccessions, research and documentation, loans, collection management, and the coordination of specialist services.
Across these activities, ZCA combines personal attention with institutional standards of research, presentation, documentation, and care.
ZCA’s activities are organized around four closely connected areas, each informed by the same standards of research, discretion, and individual attention.
Focused presentations of modern, postwar, and contemporary art developed through original research and close attention to individual works, artists, and historical questions.
Private-market sourcing and independent guidance on acquisitions, sales, provenance, condition, pricing, and long-term collection strategy.
Essays, catalogues, digital publications, and long-term research projects that deepen the understanding of artists, individual works, collections, and their historical contexts.
Documentation, collection management, loans, deaccessions, strategic planning, and coordinated support for the long-term stewardship of private collections.
Joan Robledo-Palop is the Founder and Director of Zeit Contemporary Art. Trained as an art historian at the Universitat de València and Yale University, he founded ZCA in New York in 2016 to bring art-historical rigor and independent judgment to the private market.
He advises collectors and institutions on acquisitions, private sales, collection strategy, and the long-term stewardship of modern, postwar, and contemporary art.
His practice is grounded in close attention to the individual object, discretion, and the belief that a work of art is both a material object and a historical proposition.
Sarah Brooks manages the gallery's daily operations, coordinating exhibition logistics, client communications, and the documentation that accompanies each work through ZCA's program. Her organization and follow-through let every exhibition and client engagement unfold with the same rigor and discretion that define ZCA's practice.
Edward Aglubat oversees the physical life of every work at ZCA, from preparation, installation, packing, and transport across exhibitions and private presentations. His precision ensures each object is handled, shown, and cared for in a manner consistent with its value and history.
Since its founding, ZCA has developed a selective program connecting historically grounded exhibitions, online viewing rooms, private sales, and original scholarship.
Zeit Contemporary Art was founded by Joan Robledo-Palop in November 2016, beginning from a private office at 590 Madison Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. That address laid the groundwork for the firm's advisory practice and its relationships with artists, collectors, and institutions.
ZCA works with established collectors and families whose holdings require long-term strategy, scholarly documentation, discreet transactions, and institutional standards of stewardship. From acquisitions and deaccessions to private sales, research, loans, and collection planning, each engagement is approached with continuity, discretion, and sustained attention.
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