Zilkens' News Blog Archive

The youngest rush into museum. Photo Stephan Zilkens

Zilkens' News Blog 47 2025

For almost 16 years, Silivia Zoerner was responsible for finance and projects at the BVDG office. She has now announced by email that she has not been working for the BVDG since November and is turning her attention to other tasks in the field of cultural and artistic promotion. We are all eager to find out what her new role will be.In a wave of ... read more

together with Handelsblatt and Weltkunst at Art Cologne

Zilkens’ News Blog 46 2025

Last week in Germany, everything revolved around Art Cologne. Stefan Kobel reports on this in detail. For us, the focus was on the sponsorship we have been providing for years for young buyers at the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst e.V. (Society for Modern Art) and a joint event with Handelsblatt and Weltkunst. Dr. Susanne Schreiber spoke with Stephan Zilkens about the rather complex topic of ... read more

Poseidon? National Museum, Athens.  Photo Stephan Zilkens will this pass facebook censorship?

Zilkens' News Blog 45 2025

Just over seven weeks to go until Christmas. It's a good thing that there are still a few art fairs coming up before then, where willing HNWIs (high net worth individuals) can happily spend their cash. Statistically, members of this group (i.e. those with more than USD 1 million in liquid assets, including shares) spend around USD 38,000 per year on art. This was once ... read more

Award at Art Salon Zürich - Photo: unknown (Barbara ?)

Zilkens' News Blog 44 2025

We are already living in difficult times. Someone may express something in a somewhat clumsy and undifferentiated way that reflects the feelings of the vast majority of the population, but this does not bother the assembled public press, which nevertheless focuses its reporting primarily on the opinions of perhaps 20% of the population, including their deliberate misinterpretations. Backing down with the flow seems to take ... read more

Almost 3.000 years ago … 
Photo Stephan Zilkens

Zilkens‘ News Blog 43 2025

It was in the news – big headline, jewels stolen from the Louvre yesterday! And from the Napoleonic era, too. The thieves – or were they men? – lost a few on the run! The pattern is familiar from Berlin and Dresden – anomalies in business operations expose gaps that criminals then exploit to make off with the loot.Starting on Wednesday, around 220 people will ... read more

Does AI help combat bureaucracy? - Graphic: Technology Forum 2025, Essen

Zilkens' News Blog 42 2025

Now, at the time of writing, the last remaining hostages are to be released by Hamas. In return, 2,000 fighters will be released from Israeli prisons. Whether they are really prepared to adhere to the peace plan is questionable – and unfortunately there are enough forces that have no interest in peace. Let us hope that they will not receive further support from states that ... read more