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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
Aire de Paris closes; source: Instagram
Kobel's Art Weekly 22 2026
The most comprehensive analysis of New York’s auction week is provided by Zachary Small, Julia Halperin and Tim Schneider in the New York Times (possibly behind a paywall): “Months of speculation led up to this moment, a symbol of the industry’s attempt to regain its footing after four years of fluctuating sales. It worked. Apart from the seven-minute bidding war ... read more
Madinat Jumeirah Dubai; photo Stefan Kobel
Kobel's Art Weekly 21 2026
The gushing reports on art fairs are often hard to take, especially when the coverage comes almost exclusively from US media. You really have to read between the lines to get a sense of what is actually going on. The New York fair week demonstrates this once again.“It’s a celebration,” reads the headline of the report on Frieze written by Brian Boucher and Daniel Cassady ... read more
Censored Venice Biennale at Instagram and Facebook
Kobel's Art Weekly 20 2026
“The Venice Biennale, the prestigious international art fair, opens this week”. Such a matter-of-fact, nonchalant tone as that used by Amy Kazmin in the Financial Times has probably never been seen in the press before. Behind the scenes, the Biennale has long been regarded as the world’s largest art fair. Yet gallery owners and dealers have never really been keen ... read more
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Anas Kahal and Majd Suliman – Artists in Exile with Stephan Zilkens at the exhibition opening in Cologne: Photo by Patric Prager
Zilkens' News Blog 22 2026
Last Wednesday was the big day: the first scholarship holders from Support Artists in Exile Cologne e.V. presented their works in a moving exhibition. Anas Kahal from Damascus has captured his memories of the civil war in Syria in film sequences that bring home the anonymity of the hordes shooting wildly, countered by a poetic work by Majd Suliman from ... read more
Visions in Cologne - idea for the future City Museum; Phot Stephan Zilkens
Zilkens' News Blog 21 2026
It is rather strange when potential Labour candidates for Prime Minister in England rave about winning back the working class for Labour. How am I supposed to win back something that no longer exists? Things are sometimes just as baffling in the German cabinet. Everyone is on first-name terms because that’s just what you do. The former formal title ‘Mr Chancellor’, which reflected the office ... read more
Pussy Riot and Friends: Loud poetry against opening of Russian Pavilion – Venice Biennale 2026 – Photo: Stephan Zilkens
Zilkens' News Blog 20 2026
Bruno Bischofberger, one of the pioneers of Art Basel, passed away on Saturday at the age of 86. He was one of the greats. A friend to many artists, including Schnabel and Warhol, and a pioneer of Basquiat. A passionate and dedicated collector of Swiss art from the last century. Controversial, committed and with a keen eye. In the Alpine region, no reasonably well-preserved and ... read more