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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
Annotated press review on the art market by Stefan Kobel, published weekly. Subscribe for free
Hopefully for the last time: a banana on its own doesn’t make art. Photo: Stefan Kobel
Kobel's Art Weekly 24 2026
The narrative of the ever-expanding top tier of the art market is beginning to show cracks, reports Robin Pogrebin in the New York Times (paywall): “In perhaps the clearest sign yet of a profound shift in the art market, Pace Gallery plans to announce on Thursday that it is reducing its artist portfolio by 50 artists and its staff by ... read more
Art Basel Paris; phot Stefan Kobel
Kobel's Art Weekly 23 2026
Art is a poor investment vehicle. This should really be a truism, yet the misconception that this is not the case persists. Taking the example of the latest New York auction results – hailed by the auction houses themselves, art dealers and much of the press as a resurgence of the art market – Katya Kazakina demonstrates in detail for read more
Aire de Paris closes; source: Instagram
Kobel's Art Weekly 22 2026
The most comprehensive analysis of New York’s auction week is provided by Zachary Small, Julia Halperin and Tim Schneider in the New York Times (possibly behind a paywall): “Months of speculation led up to this moment, a symbol of the industry’s attempt to regain its footing after four years of fluctuating sales. It worked. Apart from the seven-minute bidding war ... read more
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Perugino from Città della Pieve 🇮🇹 Raphael’s teacher – a cosy little spot – Photo: Stephan Zilkens
Zilkens' News Blog 24 2026
More good news from our company: Bastian Bauer will join Petter Börgers on the management board of Zilkens Fine Art Insurance Broker GmbH. Bastian Bauer, who is responsible for finance at Attikon and also serves as managing director for other group companies, will oversee accounting and financial reporting, whilst Petter Börgers will manage client and insurer relations – without whom our business simply wouldn’t run.The ... read more
A venue for Manifesta, Heilig-Geist in Essen – near Zollverein – has fallen victim to vandals. Photo: Stephan Zilkens
Zilkens' News Blog 23 2026
For our newer readers: you are currently reading the 650th edition of our news blog and Kobel’s Art Week. Twelve and a half years of working together to report on the art market seem a good reason to take a brief look back: what was the world like when we started?The FAZ was still organising an art market symposium in the heart of Berlin, where ... read more
Anas Kahal and Majd Suliman – Artists in Exile with Stephan Zilkens at the exhibition opening in Cologne: Photo by Patric Prager
Zilkens' News Blog 22 2026
Last Wednesday was the big day: the first scholarship holders from Support Artists in Exile Cologne e.V. presented their works in a moving exhibition. Anas Kahal from Damascus has captured his memories of the civil war in Syria in film sequences that bring home the anonymity of the hordes shooting wildly, countered by a poetic work by Majd Suliman from ... read more