ABOUT US

The European Cultural Centre 

ECC est une organisation culturelle fondée par l’artiste Rene Rietmeyer, existant depuis 2002. 
Nous avons créé une organisation dynamique qui continue d'établir des centres culturels dévoués aux échanges culturels et à l’organisation d’expositions internationales. Par ailleurs, nous organisons des symposiums et menons des projets culturels en Europe et internationalement. Nous pensons que le progrès est rendu possible en se questionnant davantage autour de sujets sérieux. Nous réunissons des galeristes, artistes, architectes, studios de design... de cultures différentes dans l’espoir de pouvoir apprendre les uns des autres.
Naturellement, nous avons nos opinions et nous aimons promouvoir nos propres valeurs, valeurs auxquelles nous croyons fortement. Nous sommes une organisation apolitique et non religieuse, ouverte à tous, à tous les points de vue, tant qu'ils respectent la liberté, la dignité et les droits de chaque être vivant.

Publications
Nos publications sont une part importante de nos activités. Elles sont une documentation de nos événements et projets, mais elles présentent également différents points de vue, idées de professionels issus de cultures et domaines différents. Nos publications sensibilisent aux thèmes Time-Space-Existence.

Network
ECC-France fait partie du large réseau European Cultural Centre de Satellites internationaux. Il bénéficie de partenariats mondiaux avec des institutions éducatives, culturelles, gouvernementales et non gouvernementales (musées, les fondations et plusieurs autres initiatives privées). ECC établit des Satellites dans différentes parties du monde. Notre objectif est d'élargir notre réseau d'entrepreneurs culturels, de créer des expositions, des publications, des interviews "Grandmasters of Architecture" et d'autres activités culturelles. ECC a aujourd'hui établi des centres en Italie, Etats-Unis, Japon, Russie, Inde, Grece, France, Espagne, Nigeria et les Seychelles. 
Le siège de ECC-Worldwide est situé à Amsterdam, aux Pays-Bas.

The European Cultural Centre
A cultural organization founded by the Dutch artist Rene Rietmeyer and originating back to 2002. Today we are a continuously growing group of mainly young people who like to make a positive difference, because we care. We care about humans and about what should happen with our world, about where we should go. Of course, we are aware that we can only make a small difference, but we want to do our best, doing nothing is not an option.

We created a dynamic organization which continues to establish more cultural centres devoted to cultural exchanges, worldwide organizing exhibitions, symposia and all kinds of cultural projects with Europeans and all others. This to create awareness, to strengthen our cultural commons, to cherish our uniqueness and to learn about the qualities within our differences.

We believe that progress is best made by raising a deeper awareness about serious topics. We try to bring people from very different cultures together in the hope that we will all learn from each other. Naturally we have our own opinions and we do like to promote our own values, values in which we strongly believe, but still we are a non-political and non-religious organization, open to all people, to all points of view, as long as they respect the freedom, the dignity and rights of every single living being.

Publications 
Our own publications are an important part of our activities, by not only documenting our events and projects, but also by presenting different points of view, different ideas, from people originating from many different cultures. Our publications are raising awareness about the topics Time-Space and Existence, thus building up and making visible a platform for theoretical and artistic perspectives on culture.

Network
The ECC-France is part of the larger European Cultural Centre worldwide Satellite network and benefits from all its global partnerships with educational and cultural, governmental and non-governmental institutions, like Museums, Foundations and several other private initiatives. The ECC is in the continued process of establishing Satellites in different parts of the world. Our aim is to enlarge our network of cultural entrepreneurs, to create exhibitions, publications, videos and other cultural activities. The ECC has today established centres in Italy, USA, Japan, India, France, Spain, Nigeria, Russia, Greece and Seychelles. The European Cultural Centre headquarter is in the Netherlands.

Headquarter
The ECC-worldwide Headquarter is located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.