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How to Heal from a Broken Heart (2026)
Felt, cotton thread, yarn
Dimensions: 41 × 21 × 1.5 cm
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, Repetitive Acts at NiMAC in Nicosia and Between Imagination and Hope in Goethe Institut, 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.
Mariandrie’s practice operates at the intersection of seeming opposites such as male and female, self and other, rigidity and softness, and past and present, creating space for new hybrid understandings. By weaving these tensions together, she traverses craft and fine art, challenges inherited gender binaries, and constructs inclusive narratives rooted in identity, memory, belonging, and cultural heritage. Textiles, both inherited and self constructed, anchor her material language. Through embroidery, knitting, and sewing, techniques historically tied to domestic and feminine labor, she reclaims and reimagines tradition. Often integrating text and unconventional materials, she transforms fiber into a medium of resistance and reflection. By subverting conventional textile aesthetics, she repositions the medium within contemporary art discourse, foregrounding its emotional, political, and historical depth.
How to Heal from a Broken Heart (2026)
Felt, cotton thread, yarn
Dimensions: 41 × 21 × 1.5 cm
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, Repetitive Acts at NiMAC in Nicosia and Between Imagination and Hope in Goethe Institut, 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.
Mariandrie’s practice operates at the intersection of seeming opposites such as male and female, self and other, rigidity and softness, and past and present, creating space for new hybrid understandings. By weaving these tensions together, she traverses craft and fine art, challenges inherited gender binaries, and constructs inclusive narratives rooted in identity, memory, belonging, and cultural heritage. Textiles, both inherited and self constructed, anchor her material language. Through embroidery, knitting, and sewing, techniques historically tied to domestic and feminine labor, she reclaims and reimagines tradition. Often integrating text and unconventional materials, she transforms fiber into a medium of resistance and reflection. By subverting conventional textile aesthetics, she repositions the medium within contemporary art discourse, foregrounding its emotional, political, and historical depth.
