Founded in 2015, Common Art Center is the first contemporary art gallery with a crowdfunding membership system in China. The Common Art Center is jointly initiated by experienced curators, art dealers, collectors and other professionals in the field. It is committed to providing professional collection solutions for contemporary art collectors with a new business model. The gallery takes "paper" as the medium and works of media as its main research and management direction, because of the importance of such works in the Chinese art system and the broad development prospect in the future. Using paper and folk art as the medium, the excellent artists make paper as a tool to resist its fate, allowing it to get rid of the veil of function and reveal its own artistic value.
In the era when Chinese contemporary art is gradually returning to rationality, the simple gallery business model can no longer meet the public's simple purchase of artworks, and more collectors are willing to spend more energy and financial resources to consider and ponder contemporary art. That is to say, they are willing to participate more substantively in the development and promotion of contemporary art. The crowdfunding model of the Common Art Center provides a very good soil for such a high-end crowd, where collectors can store some of their favorite works at below-market prices, and can participate in the growth of artists and art centers. The professional lectures and salons of the Collector Service Center are tailored for all types of collectors, serving collectors wholeheartedly, and understanding the ultimate needs of collectors is the original intention and ultimate goal of the Common Art Center. From the artist's point of view, the rational decline in price has a very large psychological gap in the previous era of "works can be sold", excellent artists are good at dealing with this falling situation, but more mindless to create, and no longer worry about the price, return to the original value, the current situation of the artist's existence is also a major reason why the Common Art Center chose to operate crowdfunding projects during this period.
Since 2009, the Common Art Center's mobile art program has been curating academic exhibitions, publishing themed books, international cultural and artistic exchanges, and organizing several European art tours. Hosted by Mr. Fan Di'an and edited by Peng Feng, Deputy Dean of Peking University School of Arts, Mobile Art has published 18 academic books and more than 30 large and small academic exhibitions so far.
