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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
Summer edition III/III; photo Stefan Kobel
Kobel's Art Weekly 29 2026
At the start of the year, auction coverage typically focuses on retrospectives and outlooks, which kick off the third and final part of our season review. Melanie Gerlis highlights the extent to which large fortunes influence the art market in her report on single owner sales for the Financial Times (paywall): ‘What is new is the scale, in volume and value,’ says ... read more
Summer edition II/III; photo Stefan Kobel
Kobels Art Weekly 28 2026
For art fairs the year is off to a rough start, as becomes clear right at the beginning of the first part of our three-part season review. The art market in Austria has suffered two heavy blows. The leading art fair Viennacontemporary will no longer take place, as I report in Artmagazine. The financial background and the position of the gallery ... read more
Summer edition I/III; photo Stefan Kobel
Kobel's Art Weekly 27 2026
The art market began 2026 with a faint hope that things would now start to pick up again. However, the differences compared with previous economic cycles cannot be ignored, as the first part of our three-part review of the spring season makes clear.In WeLT, Marcus Woeller in the first days of January searches for an explanation for the trend towards the ... read more
Zilkens' News Blog
Dr. Stephan Zilkens comments weekly on current events concerning art. Subscribe for free
Searching for topics during the summer lull
Zilkens‘ News Blog 29 2026
For decades, Allianz has built up its exclusive agency network using life insurance commission models – in fact, this is the business model for all companies that work with tied agencies bound by instructions. Now Oliver Bäte, the company’s CEO, has indicated in a press briefing that he considers the product to be a thing of the past. It will be interesting to see what ... read more
Wangechi Mutu, SimbiSiren, 2026, bronze – currently on display at the Arsenale, Venice; photo by Stephan Zilkens
Zilkens' News Blog 28 2026
It’s actually pretty much a normal week: the US is celebrating 250 years of independence with a president who wants to make the country heavily dependent on him, whilst in Tehran the state terrorist Khamenei is being laid to rest with great pomp, Russia continues to attack civilian targets in Ukraine and, in defiance of every principle of international law, is attempting to destroy the ... read more
Beautiful and heat resistant; Photo Stephan Zilkens
Zilkens' News Blog 27 2026
More than half the year has already passed – and with temperatures in Europe currently racing from one record high to the next, there’s only one thing on everyone’s mind: a break from the heat! Stefan Kobel begins his half-yearly review of art market reports with the market itself – next week he’ll look at the art fairs, and finally at the auction scene.Very few ... read more