Le Mima will permanently close its doors at the beginning of 2025, the museum announced Friday via a press release. The latter attracted more than 400,000 visitors during its 9 years of opening.
“The exhibition Multitude by Alexandre Farto alias Vhils, which ends on Sunday January 5, 2025, will be the last at Mima,” indicates the Molenbeek museum in its press release.
“We remain determined to continue our mission of promoting urban and alternative arts. We are actively exploring solutions to continue our work in another setting,” Michel de Launoit, co-founder of the museum, told Sudinfo. “She remains mobilized and actively explores alternative solutions to continue to promote and disseminate the work and missions of the museum. We are determined to find ways to continue our projects in another setting. Come support us until January 5, 2025, honor the team who have always welcomed you with enthusiasm, find your Mima souvenir which will soon be a collector’s item, and discover, or rediscover the Multitude exhibition of this extraordinary artist, Vhils! »
The Mima (Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art) reports that its attendance decreased suddenly in the course of 2024, with a steep drop of more than 50% in attendance, noted as soon as the unexpected closure of automobile traffic on the Quai du Hainaut in July. “This situation has jeopardized the economic viability of the institution. For this reason, and knowing that nothing guarantees a return to the previous state before the end of the work on the docks, planned in a year and a half at the earliest, the MIMA has taken the decision to close the museum”, is- he specified in the press release.
Opened in 2016, Mima presented 17 exhibitions and attracted 400,000 visitors. The most popular exhibition was that of Jean Jullien with 44,850 visitors. The record year in terms of attendance was 2019, with exhibitions Dream Box et Obsessions which attracted 61,800 people.
