Gramma_Epsilon is a gallery located in the centre of Athens, born from the shared love of 20th century Italian art by its two founders, Paolo Cortese and Francesco Romano Petillo.

The mission of the gallery is to offer a series of thematic and monographic in-depth exhibitions with the aim of sparking interest in women artists, verbal-visual experiments, artists’ books and more generally on post-war avant-garde. Particular focus is given to women artists who, by choosing to experiment in total freedom, have not conformed to the traditional rules of the market.

Gramma_epsilon is connected with the independent Roman exhibition space Lettera_E Archive with which it shares the same mission. The ‘E’, in the Italian language represents the aspects of both joining and defining, itself being derived from the Greek letter ‘epsilon’. In its original Phoenician form, epsilon was represented by a pictogram, a sort of inverted E, whose meaning of “window” perfectly represents the dual role of the gallery: to establish a space for both viewing and exhibiting.