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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
Kobel's Art Weekly 8 2026
While Art Basel Qatar seems to be demanding a media break from most outlets, the fair itself is having a lasting impact. In a long essay for Republik.ch (free registration required) that is well worth reading, Jörg Heiser places Art Basel Qatar in a global political context: "It is a classic case of co-branding: the Art Basel brand has now ... read more
Qatar's image ambassador David Beckham and artmarket reporter Margaret Carrigan at Art Basel Qatar 2026; photo by Stefan Kobel
Kobel's Art Weekly 7 2026
Daniel Cassady describes the launch of Art Basel Qatar in Artnews as an attempt to establish an art market in a region using a top-down approach: "The main question is whether Art Basel and the Qataris can ‘reverse engineer’ an art market by introducing a major international fair before a dense commercial gallery infrastructure exists locally. Whether that strategy succeeds ... read more
Doha; photo Stefan Kobel
Kobel's Art Weekly 6 2026
Nifty Gateway is closing down. The well-known NFT platform is being pulled by its parent company Gemini, a crypto service provider owned by the Winklevoss brothers and based in Malta. Artists, collectors and ‘investors’ have until 23 April to transfer their assets to other platforms. Valentina di Liscia comments on ... read more
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Wisdom beats godess of war - Seen at Liebighaus Frankfurt - Photo Stephan Zilkens
Zilkens' News Blog 8 2026
On Tuesday night, the Nubbel is burned – then Carnival is over and fasting season begins – at least for devout Catholics. Forty days later is Easter. In the days when these rules were established, the wolf was considered a predator because it threatened the sheep and cattle herds that formed the basis of food and economic life. The wolf is still a predator, but ... read more
Here hot and cold stuff - Art Karlsruhe 2026 - Photo Stephan Zilkens
Zilkens' News Blog 7 2026
I omitted Monica Bonvicini from the caption of our news blog last week. Sorry for that – but who hasn't been there? You walk around an art fair, take photos of artworks you find remarkable in all sorts of places, and afterwards you can't remember which gallery they were in or, even worse, which artist (of course: all genders) created what, where and how you ... read more
Monica Bonvicini, fleur du mal - Greetings from Marcel Duchamp - Art Genève 2026 -Foto: Stephan Zilkens
Zilkens' News Blog 6 2026
Another museum has been robbed: this time it was the Silver Museum in Doesburg (Netherlands), which in a very short time lost its entire collection of around 300 silver mustard pots, created between 1700 and 1920, to brazen thieves. Founded in 2021 and stocked from the collection of Martin de Kleijn, the museum was housed in the 13th-century St. Martin's Church in Doesburg. The rise ... read more