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Zilkens' News Blog Archive

Aleksandr Denic, Exposition Coloniale, seen at Bioskop Balkan Gallery, Belgrade exposed at Volta 2025; Photo: Stephan Zilkens

Zilkens‘ News Blog 27 2025

If you are heading south this week and are still looking for a destination, Bad Gastein could be the place for you. Art:Bad Gastein is taking place in the former Grand Hotel Astoria. Organised by Positions – yes, the people behind the special exhibitions for works on paper and at the old Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, among other places. Nine galleries are exhibiting works by ... read more

Our team at Art Basel 2025, Photography Marlis Zilkens

Zilkens' News Blog 26 2025

This is the 600th edition! For 600 weeks, Stefan Kobel has been writing his weekly press review on the art market. We are delighted and congratulate him on his consistently high-quality work, which enables those interested to catch up on any articles they may have missed. Kobel has all the important ones in German and English.This is also the 26th news blog of the year ... read more

Le Journal des Art, Paris, week 24, 2025, Make the insurers pay.

Zilkens' News Blog 25 2025

This is the 599th Art Week of all. Looking back on 2014, we remember that insurance companies suddenly declared that they would no longer provide coverage for certain regions: Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk. And this went unchallenged. After all, it was so far away – and the paramilitaries, who were actually Russian soldiers, were simply accepted – only Putin was disinvited from the G8, leaving ... read more

Against the greyness seen in Cologne, photo by Stephan Zilkens

Zilkens' News Blog 24 2025

For Christians, Pentecost is the feast that marks the end of the Babylonian confusion of tongues because, according to the relevant sources, everyone suddenly spoke to each other in all languages and was able to spread the message of the Lord. In Germany, we still get two days off for this holiday, which is why we won't be posting anything until Tuesday. When messages are ... read more

Frankfurt Airport last Saturday before 9:00 a.m. – Photo: Stephan Zilkens

Zilkens' News Blog 23 2025

Last week, a photo of immigration in Singapore, and now one from Frankfurt am Main – what does this have to do with art and culture? It's actually quite obvious: where do you feel more welcome? In a queue in front of unfriendly machines or in a seemingly open control system? What's more, control devices have now been set up at Frankfurt Airport for non-EU ... read more

Singapore - technical but easy

Zilkens‘ News Blog 22 2025

Next Sunday is going to be an eventful day – Herrman Parzinger, head of the Stiftung preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation), is retiring and Marion Ackermann is taking over. The latter has done good work in both Düsseldorf and Dresden, also as a bridge builder between West and East. It will be interesting to see whether a different pace will be set in the ... read more