Mounir Eddib (°1995, he/him) is a Moroccan-Belgian painter and mixed media artist born in Waterschei (Genk, Belgium), a working class neighborhood known for its nearby decommissioned coal mines. As grandson of a miner and son of Amazigh (Berber) parents from the Western Saharan borderlands, his autobiographical art is inspired by issues of belonging, the rawness of postindustrial landscapes, and the transformative potential of North African mythology. Eddib's work re-imagines forgotten histories of Limburg's mining sites, for instance by centering the bodies of exploited people of color as ancestral ghosts that haunt the land. He draws on Amazigh, Sahrawi, and Islamic folk rituals and magical practices to imbue his art with amulet-like properties, notably through the use of traditionally protective substances such as lead, tar, and indigo. He also uses waste materials such as blast furnace slag from abandoned mining hills to physically connect his artworks to these locations.

In both his personal artistic practice and through collaborative work at The Building Genk, Mounir strives to empower the lives of marginalized communities and reclaim the landscapes they are connected with.