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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
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Paper Positions 2025; photo Stefan Kobel
Kobel's Art Weekly 19 2025
Laura Helena Wurth's tour of Gallery Weekend Berlin for the FAZ is a mixed bag (link via MSN): ‘Although sales on the international art market slumped by twelve percent last year according to the ‘Art Basel & UBS Art Market Report’, the mid-price segment is one of the stable areas of the trade. The mood in Berlin's galleries is correspondingly ... read more
Art Brussels 2025; photo Stefan Kobel
Kobel's Art Weekly 18 2025
For Alexandra Wach at Monopol, Art Brussels is a resonance chamber for the global situation: ‘Even though similarly strong positions on current political turmoil are few and far between at Art Brussels, which is traditionally playful but this time noticeably subdued, with 165 participating galleries from 35 countries, a latent unease can also be felt at the stands of other ... read more
Art Dubai; photo Stefan Kobel
Kobel's Art Weekly 17 2025
The erosion of the art fair model, which has been in place for decades, has reached the top of the market. Following Luhring Augustin and Michael Haas, Air de Paris is also pulling out of Art Basel – and making it public. In letters to the fair and their colleagues, published in the newsletter Provence, Florence Bonnefous and Edouard Merino ... read more
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Olafur Eliasson; Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles; Photo: Stephan Zilkens
Zilkens' News Blog 19 2025
Such prejudice is rare! The new chancellor has not even been elected by parliament yet, and already his cabinet is the subject of heated debate. German politician Wolfram Weimer is one of the people who is set to become the new Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media, or Minister of Culture for short (which is incorrect). He has already made his way from employee ... read more
Seen at Art Brussels : Fabio Rieti, Galerie Bayat, Paris - Photo Stephan Zilkens
Zilkens’ News Blog 18 2025
What would art be without those who create it? We think we know a lot about the great artists of each era, but often little or nothing about the lesser-known creators. Sometimes websites are maintained and, depending on the mood, updated. But most artists of all kinds lead lives unnoticed by the public, hoping to supplement their income through art lessons. The Kunstfonds foundation now ... read more
Joachim von Sandrart: The Great Stage of Old and New Rome, Nuremberg 1685, detail: Photo Stephan Zilkens
Zilkens' News Blog 17 2025
John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis I are the popes I have been privileged to witness during my lifetime. During the papacy of John XXIII, the world population was approximately 2 billion, and Christians made up about 1 billion – that is, 50%. Now there are approximately 8 billion people on Earth and 1.3 billion Christians, which ... read more