MIMA MUSEUM

Founded in April 2016 along the Canal in Brussels, the MIMA's mission is to be the defining museum of contemporary art.

The MIMA presents the most significant art of its time, and explores a history of culture 2.0.
The Internet, low-cost air travel and the mobile telephone have taken culture away from its territorial locus and made it mobile. As Jeremy Rifkin aptly put it: “One’s sense of being is less anchored to a place than to a state of mind. Cultures are becoming transnational and global, just like commercial and political activity.” A new kind of cosmopolitanism emerges against this backdrop of galloping globalisation called culture 2.0 here, the multiple identities and affiliations extend to the entire planet.

Fifteen years ago, only a handful of intellectuals could gauge the scope of upheavals brought about by the new means of communication. In its development, the web has redefined our cultures, making increasingly more room for works that reflect their values, turning subcu