Interview with Caja Boogers, Tomáš Libertíny and Ali Keles in Tableau Fine Arts Magazine

• Press Release
• December 2024
• Rotterdam - the Netherlands

Floris Kappelle
Interviewer Tableau Fine Art Magazine

Title
From collection to connection

Parts of the interview:

By setting up two artist-in-residencies, the passionate collector Ali Keles – Founder of the Lakeside Collection and Chairman of the Netherlands Association of Corporate Art Collections – added a new impulse to collecting. At two unique locations he offers artists a temporary home to fully concentrate on research, new work and preparation for exhibitions.

What does this success do with you?

Caja Boogers: I put my full attention and all my time in my work. I already did that at the academy. It is an independent route with long days. Those are sacrifices I like to make. And apparently, I am om the right track given the confirmation I am getting. Then you feel connection and interest. By the way that does not reduce my doubts when I am solely standing in front of my work.

Tomáš Libertíny: Ali became direct captivated by the magical concept with the bees and my love for literature that is reflected in my work. We became friends and he started purchasing my work. In sixteen years, however, I had only been able to make twenty works and we wondered how there could be more. Ali then suggested the idea for a natural workshop on the park-like grounds of the Lakeside Collection: a true bee home. A beekeeper was hired and the rest is history.

The Founder of Lakeside Collection Ali Keles sees his collaboration with Libertíny as a logical corollary of the landscape at its headquarters. Also from the circular thought the bees are important.

Ali Keles: This is the third season and he has already produced eighteen works this year. This is progress and it fits well within our philosophy of sustainability. The other residency is related to our art prize which has now existed for four years. That prize is an encouragement for young artists and consists of a stipendium, a workplace for ten months and an exhibition in our compartment in the Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen.

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Tandheelkunde Groep Nederland opened its new dental clinic Tandartsenpraktijk Magnolia in Breda on November 1^st 2024

• Press Release
• November 2024
• Rotterdam - the Netherlands

Tandheelkunde Groep Nederland opened its new dental clinic Tandartsenpraktijk Magnolia in Breda on November 1^st 2024, which is the second dental clinic of the group in the province of Noord-Brabant. The new dental clinic is located in Medical Center Magnolia, which houses in also other medical professionals such as medical doctors, physiotherapists and others.

Tandheelkunde Groep Nederland continues to invest in getting new locations ready for opening in the Benelux region to service high quality dentistry, not merely by realizing brand new start-ups but also by acquisition of operating dental clinics.

Tandtechnisch Laboratorium Beijn has been renovated and expanded its capacity whilst further digitizing the workflow

• Press Release
• October 2024
• Rotterdam - the Netherlands

Tandtechnisch Laboratorium Beijn has been renovated and expanded its capacity whilst further digitizing the workflow. In addition to the renovation of the laboratorium, the capacity has been enlarged by increasing workplaces and FTE’s, alongside the investment in a milling center with the imes-icore CORITEC in its middle. This expansion and renovation will accommodate further market growth, which is dynamic in the surrounding areas and in general in the Dutch market.

Tandtechnisch Laboratorium Beijn is a Netherlands based dental laboratory with a long tradition and procedural knowledge in this sector. Mr. J.A. Beijn senior (1897-1975) started in 1920 with his own practice. In 1951, his son J.A. Beijn junior (1933-2022) joined the laboratory as an apprentice. In 1968 he took over his father’s dental laboratory. In 2020, after the 100^th anniversary of the laboratory, Mr. J.A. Beijn junior decided to sell the company to Lakeside Capital Partners. The effective date of change of ownership will be January 1^st 2021.

The purpose of the company is to provide clients with the finest dental technology by assuring the highest quality standards. The company’s long history benefits from a strong qualitative brand image, during the years a steady growth in technical and cosmetic dentistry has been possible due to the expertise and personal approach of the selected technical craftswomen and men.

Museum Kranenburgh and Lakeside Collection collaborate on preparing a solo exhibition with artworks made by bees with Tomáš Libertíny

• Press Release
• September 2024
• Rotterdam - the Netherlands

Museum Kranenburgh and Lakeside Collection collaborate on preparing a solo exhibition with artworks made by bees with Tomáš Libertíny.

In 2025 the first solo exhibition in the Netherlands of renowned artist Tomáš Libertíny will be openend in Museum Kranenburgh by director Adriana Gonzalez Hulshof. Artworks made by bees partly created in the Lakeside Bee Farm will be exhibited in the museum.

In collaboration with artist Tomáš Libertíny, Lakeside Bee Farm has been constructed at the premises of Lakeside Capital Partners’ headquarters in Rotterdam.

By starting the Lakeside Bee Farm, a special project has been realized considering the importance of maintaining and growing the worldwide population of bees, which are recently suffered through colony collapse disorder. Lakeside Capital Partners’ management highly values and aims to contribute to circular economy, the environment, sustainability and arts & culture. The Latter, is being supported via the Lakeside Collection and Keles Foundation.

The long term relationship between the artist, Tomáš Libertíny and Lakeside Capital Partner’s Managing Partner, Ali Keles, created a fruitful foundation for this longterm partnership, which enables the artist to sculpture in collaboration with bees at the Lakeside Bee Farm in Rotterdam. Together with the engagement of a renowned beekeeper, the Lakeside Bee Farm’s colonies, which consist of approximately 300.000 bees, are being maintained.

Currently living and working in Rotterdam, through his art, Tomáš Libertíny continually explores the beauty and intelligence of nature as well as probing into the existential questions of the human mind.