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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
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Good-bye White Cube party in Miami Beach
Kobel's Art Weekly 47 2024
First things first: the White Cube party, which used to ring in the Miami season every year, is no more, as Annie Armstrong of Artnet (paywall) and a few other things that you might have preferred not to know: "The event was notorious for letting the more buttoned-up patrons of the art world let their hair down. Marc Spiegler, ... read more
Art Cologne 2024; photo Stefan Kobel
Kobel's Art Weekly 46 2024
Art Cologne doesn't let anything throw it off course that easily, notes Christof Habres for recalls the tradition of the fair in the Tagesspiegel: “With so much nostalgia, one cannot help but think of the glory days of the longest-running modern and contemporary art fair in the eighties: an era that had yet to ... read more
Artissima 2024; photo Stefan Kobel
Kobel's Art Weekly 45 2024
There are no bananas here. If the big international auction houses believe they have to counter a structural crisis in the entire industry and their own business model with an ever-increasing infantilisation of the speculative commodity art, one can only hope they enjoy a happy market correction.And finally someone, even in the finance department, is saying it: art is a ... read more
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On the difference between administration and the free market economy. Seen in Solothurn. Photo Stephan Zilkens
Zilkens' News Blog 47 2024
It seems that art and politics are caught up in a kind of pulsating attraction and repulsion, and not only in Germany. Italy has a minister of culture, where Germany has a commissioner for art and media, because culture is a matter for the federal states. Alessandro Gini, as the new Italian minister is called, has just cancelled the contracts of four museum directors who ... read more
Do good and at least show it; our contribution to the Society for Modern Art 2024 - Photo: Stephan Zilkens
Zilkens' News Blog 46 2024
There are journalists of both sexes who seriously report that the American electoral system is complex! The Winner takes it all has nothing to do with complexity. The principle creates large majorities that are far from protecting minorities. However, it also creates power that is not subject to any democratic control by an opposition that is based on anything close to the actual majority situation. ... read more
Not a ballot box - Photo: Stephan Zilkens
Zilkens' News Blog 45 2024
If you think about it, Christmas will be over in eight weeks. And there is a lot going on between now and then that has nothing to do with the US elections tomorrow: Artissima in Turin has just ended – or so I'm told, it was a success. The European Registrars are meeting in Rome from Wednesday for three days of lectures by experts, but ... read more