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 work fuses memories and bodies with industrial landscapes and North African rituals and materials.
(Photo Stefanie Schaut, commissioned by Diptyk Magazine)
