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A warm welcome to Zilkens Fine Art Insurance Broker GmbH, your specialised insurance broker who finds answers to your art-related insurance questions.
We offer to find the best insurance for your art - at no cost to you.
Insurance products are complex. Being well-insured is therefore no easy task. There are numerous types of art insurance on offer, but which is the right one for your project?
It is often the case that the quality of insurance policies does not become evident until a claim arises. That is why, together with our customers, we prepare an individual insurance concept that is adapted sensitively to the respective customer’s project and describe to you the features of some of our individual insurance products.
Two characteristics define our brand essence. One is our love of art and the other is our customers’ absolute satisfaction. Only the consonance of these two factors makes us successful. Learn more about us
Dr. phil. Stephan Zilkens
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Kobel's Art Weekly 20 2026
“The Venice Biennale, the prestigious international art fair, opens this week”. Such a matter-of-fact, nonchalant tone as that used by Amy Kazmin in the Financial Times has probably never been seen in the press before. Behind the scenes, the Biennale has long been regarded as the world’s largest art fair. Yet gallery owners and dealers have never really been keen ... read more
Paper Positions Berlin 2026; photo Stephan zilkens
Kobel's Art Weekly 19 2026
Berlin’s Gallery Weekend is a testament to the resilience of the local art scene, notes Niklaas Maak in the FAZ (paywall): “What has disappeared, if anything, are the affordable rents for flats and studios, and the Senate is still doing too little to keep the art world—which the capital’s image campaigns are keen to promote—in the city. The good news ... read more
Art Brussels 2026; photo Stefan Kobel
Kobel's Art Weekly 18 2026
Since 1968 (initially as a biennial, and annually since 1997), Art Brussels has established itself as a contemporary art fair with its ups and downs. This year, it has been significantly scaled back. Nicole Büsing and Heiko Klaas express their delight in the Tagesspiegel: “[Discovery] features just as many exhibitors as last year. The main Prime section, by contrast, has ... read more
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Pussy Riot and Friends: Loud poetry against opening of Russian Pavilion – Venice Biennale 2026 – Photo: Stephan Zilkens
Zilkens' News Blog 20 2026
Bruno Bischofberger, one of the pioneers of Art Basel, passed away on Saturday at the age of 86. He was one of the greats. A friend to many artists, including Schnabel and Warhol, and a pioneer of Basquiat. A passionate and dedicated collector of Swiss art from the last century. Controversial, committed and with a keen eye. In the Alpine region, no reasonably well-preserved and ... read more
KADEWE Berlin part of Gallery Weekend - Photo Stephan Zilkens
Zilkens‘ News Blog 19 2026
The time is almost here: on Wednesday 20 May at 5.00 pm, the exhibition featuring the first grant recipients of ‘Support Artists in Exile Cologne e.V.’ will open at Galerie Minima in Cologne. The artists have each given their body of work its own title: Majd Suliman’s section is called DIY Expression, and Anas Kahal’s is titled SYRIA: IMAGES FROM MEMORY. You are already warmly ... read more
In Memoriam Jenny Falckenberg, Performance Venice Biennale 2015; Photo: Stephan Zilkens
Zilkens' News Blog 18 2026
That would have been something! A weekend without hearing a peep from the land of the former Big Brother and its president – and then a botched attack on a meal with correspondents, leaving you wondering how anyone could check in with a weapon when it was common knowledge that the self-promoter with the simple sentence structure would be there. In every shopping centre in ... read more