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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
Annotated press review on the art market by Stefan Kobel, published weekly. Subscribe for free
Art Basel 2025; photo Stefan Kobel
Kobel's Art Weekly 26 2025
Art Basel in Basel reported 88,000 visitors for this difficult year, 3,000 fewer than in 2024. It was not only Americans who skipped the most important event in the art fair calendar.Almost everything was as usual at Art Basel, reports Ursula Scheer in the FAZ on 21 June: "Even though the world's leading company also has events in Hong Kong, Miami Beach, Paris and soon ... read more
Basel Social Club; photo Stefan Kobel
Kobel's Art Weekly 25 2025
As in the USA and London, the auction week in Germany was mixed. Grisebach in Berlin will be rethinking its strategy, according to Jan Kohlhaas in the Handelsblatt: ‘High hopes had been pinned on the ’19th Century Art" auction for the appeal of a private Dresden collection featuring Romantic masterpieces, but they were dashed. Of the 22 works, almost half ... read more
Sheiks crossing; photo Stefan Kobel
Kobel's Art Weekly 24 2025
At Arco Lisboa, discussions seemed to revolve mainly around value added tax, according to Christof Habres at Parnass: "In an “absolutely destructive move” (Ilan Karpio, sales director at the Pedro Cera gallery), the Portuguese government has increased the tax rate on works of art to 23 per cent. This is a move that could well nip in the bud the ... 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
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