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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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Hongkong; photo Wilfredor via Wikimedia
Kobel's Art Weekly 14 2025
If you know how to decode the language of the art market, you will notice that the usually rosy fair reports in the relevant media are unusually restrained when it comes to this year's Art Basel Hong Kong. Harrison Jacobs observes for Artnews: ‘At the blue-chip and mega-galleries, sales were swift, with many works pre-sold or already on hold by ... read more
Spark Art Fair Vienna; photo Stefan Kobel
Kobel's Art Weekly 13 2025
Christiane Meixner from the Tagesspiegel newspaper sees room for improvement at the Spark Art Fair in Vienna: ‘Not everything is consistently at this level and some absences of important galleries from Austria are due to the parallel event Stage in Bregenz. [...] The new team at Spark since last year, Walter Seidl and Jan Gustav Fiedler, have made the cut, ... read more
Tefaf 2025; photo Stefan Kobel
Kobel's Art Weekly 12 2025
Ursula Scheer describes in the FAZ (Paywall): ‘The aim of the new managing director Dominique Savelkoul is to maintain and expand the position that has been established over decades. As the first Belgian to hold the position, which has seen a lot of change in recent times, she comes from the Mu.ZEE in Ostend and has a few cautious innovations ... read more
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Livraria Lello - Porto: Foto Stephan Zilkens
Zilkens‘ News Blog 14 2025
The Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne is currently hosting the last exhibition before the museum closes for about two years. The reason: a general renovation - the building is already 24 years old, and no maintenance was necessary in the meantime. One wonders whether the preservation of cultural heritage in municipal administration can still be justified - at least in Cologne. There are construction sites, temporary ... read more
already history - Photo Stephan Zilkens
Zilkens' News Blog 13 2025
A video is doing the rounds among logisticians on the internet in which an employee of Schenker, which now belongs to the Danish DSV Group, explains in the most beautiful German-English why the last mile is now being served by a cargo bike. The man believes that it can also be used to safely transport works of art. Somehow, one hopes that this is a ... read more
Detail from „famished road“ by Ibrahim Mahama 2023, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar. Photo: Stephan Zilkens
Zilkens' News Blog 12 2025
The TEFAF in Maastricht is not over yet and the main sponsor XL a Company of AXA is pleased to be able to motivate its employees by providing stand duty. On the opening Thursday and Friday, there was a large turnout of the important people. Those with family ties were then allowed to travel back to their families in Europe as early as Friday afternoon. ... read more