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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
Art Antwerp 2025; photo Stefan Kobel
Kobel's Art Weekly 51 2025
According to Julia Stellmann's comments in the FAZ (paywall), Art Antwerp is becoming both more regional and more international: "In 2021, international exhibitors were eager to participate in the few events that were held due to the empty exhibition calendar caused by the pandemic. However, sales remained poor for many galleries, including those from Germany, so that the fair lost ... read more
ABMB - IYKYK; photo Stefan Kobel
Kobel's Art Weekly 50 2025
A well-rounded affair. After art auctions in New York broke numerous records this season, Christie's in London has now sold a well-known Fabergé egg for £22.9 million including buyer's premium, as Andy Battaglia reports in Artnews. Richard Whiddington recounts the history of the egg at Artnet. Cologne-based art insurance broker Stephan Zilkens assesses the result ... read more
photo Stefan Kobel
Kobel's Art Weekly 49 2025
In his detailed analysis of the New York auction week, Zachary Small identifies several trends for the New York Times: "But with some business strategy and a little luck, auction houses sold £2.2 billion worth of art last week. Overall, the major auctions in New York in November achieved a 77 per cent increase over the corresponding sales last year ... read more
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Support artists in exile e.V.- firts try with AI for an image
Zilkens' News Blog 51 2025
The world is not becoming more peaceful, and the conditions under which artists can work are not becoming more free – censorship, sales bans, obstructed publications, gallery closures and daily bombings are restricting the space in which art can develop in many places around the world. An association has now been founded in Cologne: Support Artists in Exile Cologne e.V., which will award studio grants ... read more
If it is about (Fabergé) eggs German TV is coming. Photo Petter Börgers
Zilkens' News Blog 50 2025
Two more art weeklys from Stefan Kobel with commentary on the art market, and then Christmas arrives in the 52nd calendar week. According to the calendar, the first week of 2026 will begin on 29 December... Experienced readers of our news blog know that this is when Stefan Kobel's annual reviews are due. You can go on holiday with peace of mind, we will make ... read more
Christmas is beneath the underwear... - seen in Münster - Photo Stephan Zilkens
Zilkens' News Blog 49 2025
Advent, Advent, a little light... But what kind of light? The light of despair, anger, ignorance, or perhaps the hope that things will turn out for the best? In Giessen, a university town in the heart of Germany, the youth organisation of a proven right-wing extremist party is being founded, and in the course of this, speeches are being made that draw their vocabulary from ... read more