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Maria E André (Bolivia, 1996) is a Franco-Bolivian artist based in Brussels. 

Her work takes the form of installations combining textiles and sculpture. More recently, she has begun working with movement through performative installations in which the public is invited to take part in the creation of the work. Maria E André graduated in 2020 from the Académie Royale des Beaux-arts in Brussels. She has had the opportunity to present her work at various exhibitions in Belgium, including The Constant Now x S.M.A.K (Antwerp) in 2022, as part of POCPOC, a mentoring programme linking artists from diverse backgrounds with professionals from the Belgian art world. At C-mine (Genk) in 2022, in collaboration with Stormopkomst and Please Add Color for the creation of several performative works. At BOZAR (Brussels), at the invitation of «Les Vieux en Colère» as part of Next Generation Please. At Transplantation Gallery (Paris), a curatorial project proposed by Amandine Nana. At the Musée de la Manufacture (Roubaix), invited by Japanese textile artist Akane Yorita. And at the Wild Gallery (Brussels). She has taken part in international residencies at the Espronceda Institute x Art Nou (Barcelona) after winning the Espronceda-ARBA-ESA prize, and more recently at the Brakke Grond theater (Amsterdam) in collaboration with Sandra Delgadio, a Belgian-Bolivian choreographer. In 2023, she was awarded the SOFAM prize to continue her research into textile and ceramic techniques in her native Bolivia. 
She has also been selected for the Advanced Textile Programme at the Textiel Museum in Tilburg, Netherlands, to further her theoretical and practical research into textiles in November 2023.