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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
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Art Brussels 2026; photo Stefan Kobel
Kobel's Art Weekly 18 2026
Since 1968 (initially as a biennial, and annually since 1997), Art Brussels has established itself as a contemporary art fair with its ups and downs. This year, it has been significantly scaled back. Nicole Büsing and Heiko Klaas express their delight in the Tagesspiegel: “[Discovery] features just as many exhibitors as last year. The main Prime section, by contrast, has ... read more
Miart 2026; photo Stefan Kobel
Kobel's Art Weekly 17 2026
The tenth edition of Art Düsseldorf has impressed the critics. Georg Imdahl writes in the FAZ (paywall): “Large stand, small formats is the principle adopted by Frankfurt-based gallery Bärbel Grässlin, which, like Esther Schipper from Berlin, is taking part in Art Düsseldorf for the first time. ‘We’ve been watching this for two years, and we like the line-up,’ says Schipper ... read more
Art Cologne Palma Mallorca 2026; photo Stefan Kobel
Kobel's Art Weekly 16 2026
Josie Thaddeus-Johns presents Art Cologne’s second attempt in Palma, Mallorca, on Artsy: “Enter Art Cologne Palma Mallorca 2026. Although the fair will certainly be attractive to Spanish collectors, its German roots are unmistakable. On the fair’s VIP day on 9 April, a gallery owner remarked that the audience was predominantly German, many of them owners of second homes on the ... read more
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In Memoriam Jenny Falckenberg, Performance Venice Biennale 2015; Photo: Stephan Zilkens
Zilkens' News Blog 18 2026
That would have been something! A weekend without hearing a peep from the land of the former Big Brother and its president – and then a botched attack on a meal with correspondents, leaving you wondering how anyone could check in with a weapon when it was common knowledge that the self-promoter with the simple sentence structure would be there. In every shopping centre in ... read more
The Team at Art Düsseldorf, Photo: an unknown park attendant opposite the entrance
Zilkens' News Blog 17 2026
Another week like this for stock market speculators who bet on rising or falling prices. Open the Strait of Hormuz – close the Strait of Hormuz! Let’s see how many times this happens again. For predictable economic planning, this is poison. For gamblers, it can lead to great wealth. The American President’s friends will soon have to finance quite a few things – in return ... read more
Art Paris, Chicago and Palma are over – the resistance remains – Photo: Stephan Zilkens
Zilkens' News Blog 16 2026
Another Monday, and with it a whole host of uncertainties that are slowly but surely beginning to have a significant impact on people’s travel habits. Art fairs are still taking place – those in Paris, Palma and Chicago have just come to an end. It remains to be seen, however, whether the Art Cologne spin-off in Palma, held a week before Art Düsseldorf, was able ... read more