Mounir Eddib (1995, Genk) is a Moroccan-Belgian painter and mixed media artist. He studied Fine Arts in Maastricht, co-founded the multidisciplinary artist collective The Building in 2021, and coordinated Bonnefanten Museum’s youth department for three years (2022-2025). Leading newspaper NRC listed Eddib as this year’s “rising star” in the visual arts. He won four prizes in the two years since his graduation, including the prestigious Buning Brongers Prize.
Eddib was raised in Oud-Winterslag, a neighborhood known for its nearby decommissioned coal mine. As the grandson of a miner from the Western Saharan borderlands, his art is inspired by issues of belonging, the rawness of industrial landscapes and North African cosmologies. He draws on Amazigh and Sahrawi rituals and practices to imbue his art with amulet-like properties, and to re-imagine the lives of former mining families and sites.
(Photo Stefanie Schaut, commissioned by Diptyk Magazine)
