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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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The things that can happen, even if you are of good will.
Kobel's Art Weekly
Annotated press review on the art market by Stefan Kobel, published weekly. Subscribe for free
Javier Beruff "....and Russia if your listening"; free via creativesforukraine.com
Kobel's Art Weekly 30 2024
Devorah Lauter has analysed how smaller and mid-size galleries are dealing with the current market weakness for Artnews: “For these smaller and mid-size galleries, however, the slowdown makes the calculus around fairs trickier, particularly when you consider the overhead for a fair. As multiple dealers told ARTnews, shipping, framing, storage, and other overhead costs have risen dramatically, with [gallerist Monique] ... read more
Summer edition, part 3
Kobel's Art Weekly 29 2024
The third and final part of the review is about the auction season. Werner Remm tells the exciting story of the rediscovered "Portrait of Miss Lieser" by Gustav Klimt, the most expensive work of art ever offered at an auction house in Austria with an estimate of 30 to 50 million, in Artmagazine: "The work itself, a prime example of a ... read more
Summer edition, part 2 of 3
Kobels Art Weekly 28 2024
As the first international art fair of the year, Art SG in Singapore is testing the market with its second edition. Naima Morelli reports in The Art Newspaper of - surprise! - "swift sales": "While the gallery participation dropped by 29% this year, this is not felt when walking around the stands. Works of art now have more breathing space, with galleries ... read more
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We ensure that your art is optimally insured. We always strive to provide our customers with the best possible advice, neutrally and with a high level of expertise.
Zilkens' News Blog
Dr. Stephan Zilkens comments weekly on current events concerning art. Subscribe for free
Triennale of sculpture, Bad Ragaz, Switzerland
Zilkens' News Blog 30 2024
Stefan Kobel is back from France and has compiled and commented on a great deal of information about the art market. You can read it right after this.On Friday, the world realised how even the most simple disruptions in data networks can have an enormous impact on many areas of life worldwide. This could be the accumulation that the insurance industry does not actually want ... read more
St. Miguel de Cuixa, the others are at the Cloisters, New York
Zilkens‘ News Blog 29 2024
When countries dispute the provenance and ownership of works of art, moral outrage is quickly at work, as in the case of the Benin bronzes, for example. But there are also works of art in museums in the USA that came there quite normally, although they are sorely missed in their original location, such as the other half of the cloister of St. Michel de ... read more
Seen in Mexico-City
Zilkens' News Blog 28 2024
The hype surrounding crypto currencies and Bitcoin seems to have died down in the art world - at least people are no longer being flooded with it. The insurance industry has not yet developed a viable solution for Bitcoin-based NFT artworks. Perhaps it no longer needs to, because the active participants in this market have so far borne the risk themselves and an infinite increase ... read more