Last month saw us here at Hookedblog take a short visit to Brussels, those of you following us on our Hookedblog Instagram account will have seen some of our Belgian street art #HookedblogOnTour stories from the trip shared via the new Instagram stories feature.

While in Brussels we spent some time exploring the city, enjoying the sights, some beers, chocolate, and of course some of the Belgian street art on the walls of Brussels.

In a previous post, we shared some of the best street art we discovered on the streets of Brussels, if you missed it and want to see our street art finds from the trip and where you too can locate the artworks then be sure to have a look at the post 'Discovering some of Brussels best Street Art'.

The MIMA Museum, Brussels
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Alongside the Brussels street art on the streets, we were also visiting to check out some of the works from four giants of the New York Street Art scene, Faile (Previously on Hookedblog), Swoon(Previously on Hookedblog), MOMO (Previously on Hookedblog) and Maya Hayuk all of whom were invited to create indoor works for MIMA, the Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art's inaugural exhibition, City Lights.

Michel and Florence de Launoit, Alice van den Abeele and Raphaël Cruyt are the brains behind this new project space which since opening its doors has attracted over 25,000 visitors in its first 4 months.

Their first exhibition at the new space "City Lights" has been a huge success and luckily for those of you who have not visited Brussels they have extended the exhibition dates and the show will now run until the 31st December 2016. For those that can't make it we took loads of photographs at the City Lights show and have shared a selection of images, we took at the Swoon installation while visiting the exhibition below.



MIMA the Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art building on the site of the former brewery Belle-Vue beside the canal in the center of Brussels.

Artist Swoon at MIMA, Brussels
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Before you enter the Swoon installation space there are a number of short films being screened including one with Swoon discussing her time in Brussels and the work she created in the MIMA space.





Following the signage leads you to Swoon's delicate paper works which line the staircase and follow you down into the museum basement as you descend to where Swoon has installed her artworks taking over a maze of darkened basement spaces and tunnels.

Visiting MIMA Museum
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Location: MIMA, Quai du Hainaut 41, 1080 Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Belgium
Dates: The City Lights exhibition has now been extended until the 31st December 2016.
Times: The exhibit is open 10am - 6pm but please note they are closed Monday and Tuesday. The restaurant/cafe space is open until 8.30pm and again closed on Monday and Tuesday.
Price: Admission to the City Lights exhibition is 9.50 EURO.
Metro: Comte de Flandre – Graaf van Vlaanderen, Line 1 & 5