Bio

Mariandrie (b. 1989) is a Cypriot artist working primarily with textile and installation art, using material practice to question societal constructs of gender and invite fresh narratives. She holds a BA in Fine Arts from the Lancaster Institute of Contemporary Art, Lancaster University (UK), and an MA in Visual Arts in Education from the European University in Cyprus. Her work has been showcased in three solo exhibitions at The Edit Gallery (CY) in 2025 and 2022 and Phoenix Gallery (GR) in 2022, as well as numerous group exhibitions in galleries, and museums across Cyprus, Greece, the UK, and Cuba.She has also participated in art fairs like the Art Athina fair and Vima Art Fair with the Edit gallery. Notable group exhibitions include Contemporary Womanhood 1.0: Present Femininities at Alex Mylona Museum in Athens, Cyprus Insula: History-Memory-Reality at the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation in Nicosia, and Repetitive Acts at NiMAC in Nicosia. Mariandrie has participated in artist residencies across the globe, including Arthaus Lab in Cuba as part of the 2019 Havana Biennale, Memeraki in Cyprus, Phoenix Gallery in Athens, and Schafhof European Art Forum in Germany. Her artworks are featured in private collections and the prestigious State Gallery of Cyprus. In addition to her artistic practice, Mariandrie has actively contributed to the arts community as a curator, set and costume designer, art teacher, museum educator and gallery assistant. She is represented by The Edit Gallery in Cyprus. She currently lives and works between Cyprus and Greece.

Statement

Mariandrie’s practice exists at the conjunction of seemingly opposing notions, male and female, self and other, rigidity and softness, past and present, creating a space that bridges these dichotomies and opens onto new understandings. By weaving these tensions together, she develops hybrid forms that traverse craft and fine art, challenge inherited gender binaries, and offer inclusive narratives rooted in identity, memory, belonging, and cultural heritage. 

Textiles, both inherited and self-constructed, form the core of her material language. Working with traditional techniques such as embroidery, knitting, and sewing, Mariandrie reimagines processes historically associated with domestic and feminine labor. Often combined with text and unconventional materials, these gestures operate as conceptual tools, transforming fiber into a medium of resistance and social reflection. By subverting conventional textile aesthetics and methodologies, she repositions the medium within contemporary art discourse, revealing its emotional, political, and historical resonance. Sensitivity plays a critical role, guiding the work as it moves fluidly between the personal and the universal, and interrogates the gendered frameworks inscribed in color, material, and labor.

At once intimate and assertive, poetic and political, her work reflects on the evolving landscape of womanhood and the ongoing negotiation of gender roles within both society and art theory. It also examines the unstable relationship between subject and object, understood as entities that continually re-invent themselves in relation to one another, bridging the gap between them. Mariandrie invites herself and viewers into a shared reflection on identity and connection, recontextualizing what it means to exist and to create in a world still grappling with inherited divisions, while opening space for more nuanced understandings of the human condition.