A contemporary art centre of national interest, the Centre européen d’actions artistiques contemporaines (CEAAC) aims to support and promote contemporary creation for all audiences. Its location at the crossroads of Europe is at the heart of its artistic and cultural project, which focuses on issues related to the circulation of images, vernacular cultures and public health.

Since 1995, the CEAAC, which played a pioneering role in bringing art into the public spaces of Alsace, has been operating from a former glass and porcelain shop in a heritage-listed Art Nouveau building. There, it organises an average of three (monographic or collective) exhibitions per year, complemented by a multidisciplinary programme of events (lectures, performances, readings, concerts, etc.) and offsite projects in the metropolitan, departmental and regional areas. In parallel, it develops and implements specific outreach programmes for schools and audiences with special needs.

The CEAAC also offers residencies for artists and researchers in collaboration with a large network of institutions and cultural organisations across Europe. This cross-exchange programme currently involves partnerships in Germany (Basis e.V., Frankfurt), Spain (Hangar, Barcelona), Hungary (Budapest Gallery), Italy (IUNO, Rome) and the Czech Republic (MeetFactory and Institut français de Prague). Since 2023, it has also been running a visitors’ programme for curators and visual art professionals (Hop) as well as offering a production residency for invited artists.

CEAAC is an association under the local law of 1908 supported by the DRAC Grand Est, the Grand Est Region, the Collectivité européenne d’Alsace and the City of Strasbourg. It is also a member of the networks Arts en résidence, DCA, BLA!, Plan d’Est – Pôle arts visuels Grand Est and Tôt ou t’art.