Biography
Mounir Eddib (1995) is a Moroccan-Belgian painter and mixed media artist. He studied Fine Arts in Maastricht, co-founded the multidisciplinary artist collective The Building / Genk in 2021, and coordinated Bonnefanten Museum’s youth department for three years (2022-2025). 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.
Eddib was listed as this year’s “rising star” in the visual arts by leading newspaper NRC. He won four prizes in the two years since his graduation including the prestigious Buning Brongers Prize, and presented his first institutional solo Taliswoman at Z33 (Hasselt, BE). He recently participated in group shows such as We Live Here Too at Kasteel Wijlre Estate and The Roundness of Loss at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam. His works have been included in the collections of Museum Voorlinden and the Bonnefanten, amongst others. He is regularly invited to speak about his practice, for instance by KANAL – Centre Pompidou (Brussels) and S.M.A.K. (Ghent).
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Education
- 2019 – 2024BA Fine Arts (Summa Cum Laude), Minor Artistic Research in Situ at Maastricht Institute of Arts, Zuyd Hogeschool
Exhibitions
- 2026Little Ghetto Boy, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, NL
Dag & Nacht, Emile Van Dorenmuseum, Genk, BE
The Bell Jar, MONTI8, Rome, IT - 2025The Roundness of Loss, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, NL
Taliswoman (solo), Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Hasselt , BE
We Live Here Too, Hedge House, Kasteel Wijlre Estate, NL
Identity, Verduyn Gallery, Moregem, BE - 2024Tussen Steenkool en Berken, Installation with Saverio Sammartino, Genk op Gang, Thor Park, Genk, BE
Honoring The Cleaning Lady, Fine Arts Graduation Expo, De Stuersgebouw, Maastricht Institute of Arts, NL
Best of Graduates, Group Exhibition at Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, NL
Buning Brongers Prize Expo, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
Manifestation #43: (Where and for Whom) Listening to the Absences, Buro Stedelijk, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL - 2023Wasteland, C-Mine Galerie, Genk, BE
Sledderlove, Sledderlo, Genk, BE - 2022 De Grote Keramiekshow, No Limits! Art Castle, Amsterdam, NL
- 2019 Auralogie, Regina Mundi Monastery, Genk, BE
Awards
- 2026 NRC Rising Star in the visual arts
- 2025 Nominated for the 28th Voem Emancipation Prize
Nominated for the Art Brussels Solo Prize - 2024Henriette Hustinx Prize
RM Public Choice Award, Galerie Ron Mandos, Best of Graduates
Gilbert de Bontridder Prize
Buning Brongers Prize - 2018 Role Model of the Year Award (King Baudouin Foundation)
“Begenkers” entrepreneurial project winner (Genk municipality)
Press
- 2026 ‘Mounir Eddib probeert zichzelf vrij te denken met kunst – net als zijn ouders’, NRC
- 2025‘Een niet vol te houden mix van artistieke chaos, kansen grijpen en vrijwilligersenthousiasme – het jaar van Mounir Eddib’, Mister Motley
‘Een mengeling van trots en littekens’, Zout (view print PDF here)
‘Genkenaar Mounir Eddib is opkomend kunsttalent: “Mijn schilderijen kunnen wenen”‘, HBVL
Pompidou, Klara
‘Genkenaar Mounir Eddib opent nieuwe seizoen van Z33 met expo Taliswoman’, TV Limburg
‘Lood & teer’, kM # 135 (Herfst) – Aarde (view PDF here)
‘La mélancolie ouvrière de Mounir Eddib’, Diptyk # 72 (Été), pp. 68-75 (view PDF here)
Zoë Dankert – Voor de Sprong (podcast series)
Pompidou @ Art Brussels, Klara - 2024 “311: Mounir Eddib”, Kunst is Lang Podcast
“Net aan kunstacademie Maastricht afgestudeerde Mounir Eddib wint binnen zes maanden vier Nederlandse kunstprijzen: ‘Een klasgenoot noemde me al: de Prijzensteler’, De Limburger
“Berkenland – in gesprek met Mounir Eddib”,Mister Motley
volume 45, nr. 4, p. 57: “Mounir Eddib”, Competitie & Eindexamens 2024, Metropolis M - 2023“‘Daar word ik stil van’ – met kunstenaar Mounir Eddib naar ‘Knappe Koppen’ in het Emile van Dorenmuseum in Genk”, Mister Motley
“Achttien jonge kunstenaars exposeren met straffe verhalen én slapen deze zomer in C-mine”, Het Belang van Limburg“‘Grootste vlag’ van Benelux wappert hele zomer op C-mine in Genk”, Het Nieuwsblad
Public collections
- S&D#025, 019, Ghent, BE
- Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, NL
- Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, NL
- AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam, NL
Commissions
- Mother Ocean, Motherland (2025), We Live Here Too, Kasteel Wijlre Estate
- Visual identity for Best of Graduates (2025), Galerie Ron Mandos
- Enveloped in Lead (2024), Genk op Gang, Genk City
- Worried Wings II (2023), S&D#025, 019 Ghent and C-Mine
Residencies
- 2024 Atelier, Kunstplaats Vonk, Regina Mundi, Genk, BE
- 2023 Summer school and artist residency, C-Mine Genk, BE
