ANIMA FLUX

Rolf A. Kluenter’s work incorporates different artistic disciplines,
drawing from and commenting on film, performance,
photography, music, theatre, painting and sculpture, and uniting them to create a poetic visual language in an audio-
visual film.

ANIMA FLUX inhabits and expands border region between perceived realities, utopian reveries and contestedly
fabricated virtual realms. Fragments of narratives progessively evolve and blend in an array of confusion. RE-MIX is
stylistically used as an audio-visual method. Recitations of poems and texts from different regions, eras and cultures
are set in contrast to dialogues of day-to-day life. ‘Anima - the feminine in male’ is the recurrent theme throughout
Kluenter’s film and the core of a suggestive and visual exploration.

Female protagonists - attired in conceptual extensions to their feeling bodies - perform in virtual spaces. They interact
with inanimate objects that they remember to be invested with personal or collective memory. These objects seem to
be worshiped for their supposed magical powers or because they are considered to be inhabited by a spirit.

Kluenter’s cast of ANIMA FLUX includes the actresses Joey Meng Yee Man (Hong Kong), Miranda Leonhardt
(Croatia / Germany), the Model Mizz Zee (China) and Puiyee Cheung (USA / Vietnam). Other performers are Casino
(Malaysia), Gabriela Chen (China), Setareh Nematollahi (Iran) and Sukhamaya Lama (Nepal). Intended by the
conscious selection of a multi-cultural cast Kluenter tries to achieve a high authenticity.

Rolf A Kluenter, being born in 1956 in Buervenich near Cologne, is characterized by a consequent turning to the east.
After graduating from the renowned Fine Arts Academy in Duesseldorf in the year 1982, Kluenter didn’t focus on
New York, which as metropolis of contemporary art had produced a hypnotic maelstrom, but rather towards Nepal.
For him, the new positioning, which not only in the physical sense meant a counter-direction, was like the entry into
the labyrinth of insight. Especially because his sojourn also included an intensive study of and an encounter with far-
eastern ways of thinking and meditation. Until 1998, he lived in Kathmandu, after this daring the move to Shanghai, a
metropolis with a capitalistically characterised dynamic that constitutes the third station of an unusual artistic path.

ANIMA FLUX
2010-11, filmstills, film, 38 min

Performers: Joey Meng Yee Man, Miranda Leonardt, Puiyee Cheung, Gabriela Chen, Casino, Mizz Zee
Objects in cardborad boxes: Polaroids, Warrior, Jars and Bridal Veil, Trench, Breath
 Venues Abbazia di San Gregorio, Dorsoduro 172, 30123 Venice

Rolf A. Kluenter
Palazzo Mangilli-Valmarana, Cannaregio 4392, 30121 Venice

Opening June 2nd, 2011

ANIMA FLUX Running period June 4th – November 6th, 2011
2010-11, film, 38 min
Curators Victoria Lu, Felix Schöber, Renzo di Renzo

Assistant Curators Huang Yun, Justine Huang, Reiko Iida

54th International Art Exhibition – Organizing institutions

UNEEC Foundation for Culture and Education (Taiwan) http://foundation.uneec.com

La Biennale di Venezia Today Art Museum (Beijing) www.todayartmuseum.com

Collateral Event “Future Pass” wereldmuseum (Rotterdam) www.wereldmuseum.nl

National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taichung) www.ntmofa.gov.tw

FUTURE PASS – From Asia to the Future World of Art in collaboration with

by Victoria Lu, Creative Director - Today Art Museum, Beijing (China) Fondazione Claudio Buziol (Venice) www.fondazioneclaudiobuziol.org

“FUTURE PASS” is a special exhibition curated from an Asian perspective to bring attention to Silvia Buziol, President Fondazione Claudio Buziol
different values that should be recognized in contemporary art. The show will be installed in a way
that privileges a kaleidoscopic vision that breaks away from the typical “white box” of the museum. Federica Pezzato ,Organizational Office
This all-over visual experience will directly speak to the viewing habits of our digital age, especially Simona Casarotto, Organizational Office
our relationship to the computer screen.
Maria Angela Desti Baratta, Administration
It is an exhibition showcasing new artists of the 21st century who are conscious of questions
of heritage, the environment and innovations for the future. In the digital environment of the Marco Bertuzzo, Logistics
21st century, channels for sharing knowledge have become more diverse than ever before.
Contemporary art throughout the world is moving toward “Neo-eclecticism,” uniting the Nicola Randolfi, Architect
experiences of Conceptual Art with an investigation into new materials and subject positions, and
destabilizing the pre-existing hierarchies found in dialogues among different cultures. Justine Huang, Press Release

“FUTURE PASS” is co-organized by the Fondazione Claudio Buziol; the UNEEC Foundation,
Taipei; and the Today Art Museum, Beijing. This large-scale international exhibition will include
Educational Program
106 artists/groups from around the world. “FUTURE PASS” will be presented at both the new and
original spaces of the Fondazione Claudio Buziol in Venice: Abbazia di San Gregorio and Palazzo Renzo di Renzo
Mangilli-Valmarana. This exhibition will be held from June 2 to November 6, 2011; in fact, it will
serve as the inaugural show for the newly renovated the Abbazia di San Gregorio. The exhibition Shen Qilan
will then travel to the Wereldmuseum in Rotterdam in December, as well as the National Taiwan
Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, and the Today Art Museum, Beijing, in 2012. Executive Director

Three curators have been appointed for the project: Victoria Lu (Creative Director, Today Art Chang Chanru
Museum, Beijing), Renzo di Renzo (Artistic Director, Fondazione Claudio Buziol, Venice) and Felix
Schoeber (Independent Curator). They have organized the exhibition around the following six Sponsors:
themes: East / West, Past / Future, Yin / Yang, Virtual / Real, Universe / Self and cosplay.
Meters Bonwe, DELTA Electronics, Luceplan