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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 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
Art Basel 2026; photo Stefan Kobel
Kobel's Art Weekly 2026
In his report in WeLT on Art Basel, which he says “got off to a flying start”, Marcus Woeller peppers his piece with art market anecdotes: “Above all, however, it is the selling prices at Art Basel that are truly exclusive. The asking price of 35 million dollars, for instance, with which the Hauser & Wirth gallery announced the sale ... read more
Open since Sunday: Maze Basel; photo Stefan Kobel
Kobel's Art Weekly 25 2026
The June Art Fair in Basel was cancelled on Sunday, one day before it was due to begin, without any explanationJo Lawson-Tancred has combed through the list of participants at Frieze London for Artnet, looking for galleries that are not taking part this year: “Several galleries, including Almine Rech, James Cohan, Sean Kelly, Gathering, Kurimanzutto, ... read more
Zilkens' News Blog
Dr. Stephan Zilkens comments weekly on current events concerning art. Subscribe for free
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
Abbey Garden Tholey, Photo: Stephan Zilkens
Zilkens' News Blog 26 2026
I’ve never taken so few photographs at Art Basel and its satellite events as I did this time. A mere five pictures made it onto the roll. Is it because I’ve already seen quite a lot in my life? Or is it because pictures costing 35 million USD fail to hold any general appeal? Or is it because the selection offered few surprises and hardly ... read more
Photo Stephan Zilkens
Zilkens' News Blog 25 2026
Some exhibitions are worth a second look. That certainly applies to this year’s Venice Biennale. A month ago, I had questioned it because video art seemed to dominate. Now, on closer inspection of the main exhibition – which featured a fair amount of derivative yet little-known work – one feels as though one is witnessing a confrontation between the Global South and the absent North. ... read more