Caja Boogers (graduate of HKU, Utrecht) has been awarded the third Lakeside Collection Award. The selection was amongst 25 talented artists selected for the Best of Graduates 2023 by the Ron Mandos Young Blood Foundation.

Motivation by the jury (Sanne ten Brink, Tomas Libertiny, Annemarie van der Hoeven and Ali Keles) of Lakeside Collection Award 2023:

“The jury is of the opinion that Caja’s work is both aesthetically and conceptually convincing. His works are direct, yet offer the viewer the opportunity to interpret what he sees. He paints compellingly. His subjects vary from simple photographic copies to almost abstract sculptural panels. A subject such as frozen waters, on which visible signs of ice skaters who have entered the ice, give an almost photo-realistic image, but at the same time he manages to convert it into an almost abstract natural landscape. His style is daring.

Caja chooses the right scales for his paintings and is not afraid to make mistakes. The cutting style of drawing (as we also see with Marloes Roeper and Sam Werkhoven) is pleasant, confident and without hesitation. This non-hesitation reminds the jury of the pure calligraphic Zen approach when an empty state of mind is needed for the mark to “make itself”. Caja knows how to influence the viewer’s perception by making small interventions in the canvas and challenging the viewer to look closely; what is paint and what is canvas?

The jury was deeply impressed by the concept and the surprising presentation of the work. According to the jury, Caja has a lot of potential, not only on the scale on which he works now, but also on a more monumental scale. His mastery of the craft of painting, sense of theme expressed in his works with balanced depth, light, color and layering make him a promise for the future. The jury is therefore very curious about the further development of Caja.

The other nominees of whom also works have been acquired for the Lakeside Collection are: Jemima de Jonge and Sam Werkhoven.

Caja Boogers (2001), ‘Partition #5’ 2023 art work, oil and paste on linen, became a part of the Lakeside Collection after winning the Lakeside Collection Award 2023

Ali Keles, together with Ritchy Drost and Cyanne Toebes Moe-Tjon, has been appointed as a member of the Supervisory Board of the Balie as of June 2023. After 8 years, Bercan Günel stepped down as a member of the Supervisory Board. The other current members of the Supervisory Board are Mirjam van Praag (chairman), Peter Mensing and Doreen Boonekamp.

Keles: “Being part of and contributing from the Supervisory Board to an institute like De Balie that is committed to art, culture and social debate is a great honor for me.”

The film DEPOT – Reflecting Boijmans by Sonia Herman Dolz premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam IFFR 2023.

“While Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen had to close in 2019 due to large-scale renovation, a completely new building was created nearby that would open its doors to the public: the Depot – a shared dream of architect Winy Maas and Boijmans director Sjarel Ex. This documentary not only takes us through the creation of the world’s first fully publicly accessible depot, but also draws beautiful parallels with the construction of the current museum building in the 1930s on the basis of archive material from Bouw Museum Boymans.

Maas and Ex guide the viewer with contagious pleasure through both the stripped down museum and the brand new depot and share their enthusiastic view of the past and present. The film, a monument to the future, unlocks the secrets of the museum between the acts and reveals details that are usually hidden from view. Both buildings reveal themselves, a vault with art treasures is opened. The result is a loving symphony for art and architecture.

DEPOT – Reflecting Boijmans is the latest film by filmmaker Sonia Herman Dolz, known for award-winning documentaries such as Romance de Valentia (1994) about the art of bullfighting and Lágrimas negras (1998), about an aging Cuban band. She also made the documentary Conducting Boijmans (2015).” (text by Christiaan Boesenach IFFR)

Trailer of the film DEPOT – Reflecting Boijmans.

During the general meeting of the Netherlands Association of Corporate Art Collections (VBCN) on May 10^th 2023, Ali Keles took office as the new chairman. He succeeds Anne Clement van Vugt, who has been chairman since 2020 and whose term of office expired this year.

Ali Keles (1983) is an investor and founder of Lakeside Capital Partners, a financial services and investment group based in the Netherlands. In addition, he collects contemporary art that is housed in the Lakeside Collection, and thus joined the VBCN in 2019. He has been a board member of the VBCN since 2021.

With Keles as the new chairman, the VBCN is committed to further professionalizing the services it provides to its members. In addition, an important spearhead will be intensifying cooperation with the Dutch cultural and museum sector, but also between the affiliated corporate collections.

Keles strongly cares about the long-term commitment of the corporate collections and wants to embed this by developing a widely supported Charter for Art & Culture. Increasing the sense of responsibility of companies and (semi) public institutions to invest in the Dutch art and culture sector is evident to him.

In his opening speech, Keles emphasized: “Companies and (semi) public institutions that have committed themselves to the VBCN and that have all built up treasures of art collections over the years are an important part of the Dutch art sector. This makes them a great support for the arts and their creators. Recent research by the UvA has shown that the VBCN members collectively conserve more than 100,000 works of art and account for almost a quarter of all art purchases in the Netherlands.”

The VBCN is very pleased with the appointment of Keles and at the same time thanks Anne Clement van Vugt – senior advisor and art coordinator at Erasmus University Rotterdam – for her chairmanship. Under her inspired leadership, the VBCN membership grew, the association’s memory was recorded, the mission and vision updated, the anniversary publication VBCN VIEW was realized and the association presented the fourth edition of the VBCN OPEN curator’s prize. About the VBCN The Dutch Association of Corporate Collections (VBCN) is an independent non-profit knowledge network for Dutch companies and (semi) public institutions with an art collection. The members bring a large and diverse audience into contact with art and create new connections between art and society. This makes the VBCN a distinctive player in the cultural field.

As of May 1^st, 2023, Bart Hogendoorn has been appointed the new director of Anders Medical Factoring. Hogendoorn is an experienced director from the factoring world and has also held prominent positions in the ICT sector. For example, he has been Managing Director of HP and HPE the Netherlands and from 2016 to 2018 he held the position of CEO at Famed.

Bart Hogendoorn about his appointment: “Anders Medical Factoring has grown rapidly in recent years. The format we have now opens the doors to a segment of large customers and chains that we would like to add to our customer base. It is with great enthusiasm that I take up the challenge to continue the growth and further strengthen Anders Medical Factoring’s position as a friendly and service-oriented oral care factoring company, with the aim of offering existing and new customers the best possible factoring service.”

Ali Keles: “Bart has the right qualities to lead our great company. He has many years of experience in the field of commerce, ICT, factoring and complex projects for large organizations. I am therefore confident that he will realize the next phase of growth together with all employees.”

Anders Medical Factoring operates in the healthcare factoring business in the Netherlands, especially in the oral care. It provides its clients with debtor management including invoices collection and submitting claims to various health insurers. This completely reliefs medical professionals to focus on their core business of medical treatments, not only with regard to dealing with debtors, but also by taking over debtor risk.

Ruud Lamers CEO of Anders Medical Factoring will leave the organization on April 30^th 2023. Lamers is leaving at his own request and wants to focus more on his private life. He will remain involved with the company in the coming years as an advisor. The shareholders praise Lamers’ contribution to the development of Anders Medical Factoring – in particular the development from a start-up to a serious company with a substantial market share. According to the shareholders, he also gave a major boost to the modernization of Anders Medical Factoring’s services. Co-shareholder Ali Keles (Managing Partner, Lakeside Capital Partners): “Anders Medical Factoring is doing well in many areas. We are very grateful to Ruud for this and wish him all the best for the future”.

Ellen Leijser
Interviewer Het Financieele Dagblad

Ramon van Flymen
Photographer

Parts of the interview:

Art collectors about their collection. It always starts with that one work of art that you fall head over heels for. Five art collectors talk about that love, which leaves you wanting more.

In my eyes, art was something for museums. The fact that you can also buy art was not something that lived with me. Until I came to the PAN for the first time around the age of nineteen and saw gallery owners, met artists. That’s how I started buying a piece of art every now and then.

A purchase always starts with my heart. A work of art does something to you, touches you, moves you, can inspire, raise questions, abrade, but it can also just be very beautiful. Aesthetics can be an important reason to acquire art.

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As of January 2023, Tandheelkunde Groep Nederland entered its 10^th year of operations. Post COVID-19 pandemic impact is still to be felt in society. A lot of uncertainties stayed partly with us whilst a global crisis unfolded. Tandheelkunde Groep Nederland continued to acquire dental clinics and invest in getting new locations ready for opening in the Benelux region to service high quality dentistry.

A horizontal organizational structure with dynamic interaction in between the different fields of management’s and staff’s expertise, alongside creating an engaging and motivating corporate culture has proven still to be the correct methods in realizing growth.

In 2022 the group has realized a single digit growth in revenues. Management and shareholders are confident in a further roll-out of the chosen strategy with a combined focus on start-ups and acquisitions.