The Center for Contemporary Art (a registered non-profit organization) was founded in 1998 to promote time-based and contemporary artistic practices in Israel.

Operating from a small room at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque, the CCA managed to revolutionize the art world in
Israel. In addition to series of video art and experimental cinema screened at the cinematheques throughout the country: in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Rosh Pina, and Sderot (between 1998 and 2005), since 1997 CCA has initiated and produced five editions of Blurrr – The International Performance Art Biennial and two editions of VideoZone – International Video Art Biennial (2002, 2004); it has established the Fund for Video-Art and Experimental Cinema distributing grants (31 grants thus far) for Israeli video art and experimental film, and produced Artattack – a television program dedicated entirely to video art, broadcast for over four years (2001-2004) on community TV channels throughout the country.

The CCA also maintains an archive of video pieces by Israeli and international artists, with works from the 1960s to the present. It is accessible to students, curators, video professionals, and the general public upon request.

In November 2005 the CCA moved to its new building in the Rachel and Israel Pollak Gallery, at the Teachers College of Technology Campus in the center of Tel Aviv. Containing an auditorium, two exhibition halls, office space and an editing room – as well as a charming entrance square, the building will enable the CCA to curate and produce exhibitions, projects, screenings, lectures and performances in its own premises.