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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
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
Brafa Brussels 2026; photo Stefan Kobel
Kobel's Art Weekly 5 2026
Andreas Platthaus finds a gauntlet thrown down to TEFAF at Brafa in Brussels for the FAZ on 24 January: "The expansion has a clear goal: to outdo Maastricht's competition (not only in the Benelux, but on a global scale). TEFAF will be held there in March, and the two universal art fairs are competing for the reputation of offering the most exclusive selection. TEFAF is ... read more
Good bye Viennacontemporary; image Stefan Kobel
Kobel's Art Weekly 4 2026
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. Michael Huber reports in detail for the Kurier (paywall): "In an interview with the KURIER, the managing director of the organising company, Markus Huber (no relation to the author), has ... read more
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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
BRAFA 2026 – Contemporary meets Breughel – Photo Stephan Zilkens
Zilkens' News Blog 5 2026
If you haven't yet had the opportunity to hear Stefan Kobel speak rather than just read his work, now is your chance: WDR 3 broadcast a discussion programme entitled ‘Moon prices and millions in losses: the art market in crisis’, moderated by Peter Grabowski and featuring Kobel, Nadine Oberste-Hetbleck from ZADIK, Isabel Apiarius-Hanstein from Kunsthaus Lempertz and Rupert Pfab from ... read more
Donald I. King of the world - Collage ChatGPT
Zilkens' News Blog 4 2026
If you rule long enough, you can achieve quite a lot in the 17th and early 18th centuries. For Louis XIV, this included disempowering the nobility and pursuing an expansive foreign policy. The game of disempowerment played out through the various perfectly normal things that a living being has to do every day, such as getting up, getting dressed, working, eating and sleeping. The king ... read more