Marianna Blier

Marianna Blier is an Austrian sculptor, who lives and works between Vienna, Austria and Carrara, Italy.

Marianna works with various materials, including different types of stone, bronze, and ceramic. Her real passion, however, is Carrara marble—the material that caught her imagination with its vital power and spiritual beauty.
Inspired by the aesthetics of classical Antiquity and the Renaissance, she focuses on figurative art and implements traditional hand-carving techniques with a particular focus on Carrara marble.

Marianna studied the traditional, hand-carving marble techniques directly from craftsmen based in Carrara, Italy. Working exclusively by hand, Marianna follows Michelangelo’s approach of direct carving.

Looking to classical antiquity, Renaissance Italy, as well as indigenous cultures, Marianna creates contemporary interpretations of the ancient myths and narratives. Marianna’s sculptures are about what flesh and marble have in common. Her pieces mix classical aesthetics with contemporary sensibilities. While her works are contemporary in style, Marianna’s choice of marble and her approach to the human form evokes the classical tradition of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture.

Vienna University of Applied Arts
Summer Academies in Berlin and Salzburg

Solo Exhibitions:

2025 Poetics of Hands. Fall of Icarus. Red Carpet Showroom, Kalrsplatz, Vienna, Austria
2025 Born in the Marble Dust. Studio Donna del Marmo, Carrara, Italy
2024 Lacrimae Rerum. Church Madonna in Teras (Chiesa della Madonna delle Lacrime), Carrara, Italy
2022 Donna del Marmo. Gallery Maac Marmi, Carrara, Italy
2022 Pieta Serrone. Piazza Duomo, Carrara, Italy
2019 Sky Boat. Piazza Duomo, Carrara, Italy
2013 Endless Travelling. United Nations, Vienna, Austria
2012 Gleichnisse und Allegorien. Lange Nacht der Kirchen.Militärpfarre St. Nepomuk, Vienna, Austria

Selected Group Exhibitions, Symposiums:

2027 XVI Florence Biennale 2027, Participating artist
2025 Precious Moments: the Beauty of Being. Mondi Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2025 C/Art festival Creativi in dialogo. Carrara, Italy
2024 La pietra dei sogni, Sculpture and Performance, Festival “Torano Notte e Giorno”, Torano, Italy
2021 Sulle orme di Michelangelo, Capella di San Martino, Gorzegno, Italy
2021 MATERIA PRIMA, 6. International Symposium in Lecce Stone, Gallipoli, Italy
2021 White Carrara Downtown, Palazzo Binelli, Carrara, Italy
2020 Planet Erde. International Symposium, Kunstbah...