The CEAC is a non-profit organisation which has, since it was founded in 1999 by Ineke Gudmundsson, worked in a join venture with the Xiamen University Art College. The CEAC sees it as its main task to establish a contact between European and Chinese cultures. It has in the past ten years made and organized more than hundred exhibitions in different European countries and in Xiamen where the CEAC is located. Right from the beginning Holland has been the most important European country when it comes to exchanges artists and art teachers. For many years there has been a fruitful exchanges program between The Sandberg Institute for postgraduate art studies and Xiamen University Art College. Many Dutch teachers have been working for shorter or longer time at the Art College and many young Chinese artists and teachers have been lecturing and teaching at Dutch art academies in the past ten years. Besides having residences for foreign artist which almost always result in exhibitions of the residence artists in the Art Center, the CEAC has the ambition to bring contemporary art of Chinese and European artists to Xiamen, the hometown of the CEAC, with the intention to enrich the artistic climate in that beautiful city.

Chinese European Art Center; Xiamen University Art College

中国欧洲艺术中心是一个非盈利机构，自1999年起由伊尼卡·顾蒙逊女士创建以来就和厦门大学艺术学院密切合作。中国欧洲艺术中心旨在建立起中国和欧洲文化之间的沟通。在过去的十年里，中国欧洲艺术中心已成功地在厦门举办了上百个来自欧洲不同国家的艺术展览。自从艺术中心成立以来荷兰一直是在艺术家交流项目/艺术教师交流项目方面最重要的欧洲国家。许多年来，厦门大学艺术学院与荷兰桑德伯格学院的交流项目也是硕果累累。众多荷兰教师应邀来厦门大学艺术学院进行短期或长期交流；与此同时，许多年轻的中国艺术家及教师也在过去十年里到荷兰的艺术学院举办讲座或授课。中国欧洲艺术中心除了邀请国外艺术家进行驻地创作、举办展览，更希望把国内外艺术家的当代艺术带到中国欧洲艺术中心的发源地厦门，让这个美丽的城市的艺术气候更丰富。

中国欧洲艺术中心厦门大学艺术学院2010年5月