At the Wereldmuseum Rotterdam, located just near the port of Rotterdam and its famous Erasmus bridge, a new exhibition named Future Pass is held.

Anything special about it?

LIFESTYLES takes you there...

Future Pass is a new aesthetic movement that dominates the art scene in the 21st century. But, we are not talking about a new form of abstract expressionism.

The exhibition here is about a movement called Animamix.

More than 130 artists from all over the world show their diverse works. But they have one thing in common.

SOUNDBITE: STANLEY BREMER, WERELDMUSEUM ROTTERDAM DIRECTOR
"It's a socially critical exhibition. But in a funny way. When you walk through the exhibition you see all kinds of comic figures which look very funny, very harmless. But there is a second message to it, a second dimension, and the second dimension is critical, it says that people are feeling hopeless, people don't know what to do, they don't have a clear view of the future, but at the same time they present it as a sort of happy, harmless situation. The painting for example behind me looks very fairy-tale like painting. But you know if you look at her face, you see a sort of hopelessness."

The movement comes from Asia originally, especially China. The Wereldmuseum cooperated with the Today Art Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung among others.

SOUNDBITE: STANLEY BREMER, WERELDMUSEUM ROTTERDAM DIRECTOR
"Well, the art form is coming from Asia, we call it art from Asia. Their art is all over the world, it's coming from Spain, South America, Belgium, there is a Dutch artist as well, there is a Rotterdam artist as well, but the Animamix, the flow of this art is coming from Asia, mainly China. It's coming from China, and the creator is Victoria Lu, she is also the creator of the Beijing Art Museum and she made the phrase Animamix. She worked on this exhibition for a long time."