This evening, Wednesday, September 30, at 6:00 PM, the Gramma_Epsilon Gallery in Athens opens “What Remains, What Changes,” the first solo exhibition in Greece by Maria Jole Serreli , an artist born in Rome in 1975 with ties to Marrubiu, where she lives and works. The project, open to the public until December 30, is curated by Panos Giannikopoulos, curator of the Greek Pavilion at the last Venice Biennale, and Paolo Cortese , with the patronage of the Italian Embassy in Athens and the Italian Cultural Institute. This event culminates an already extensive international career: for ten years, Serreli has been engaging with Chinese cultural institutions, and in 2026 she was Art Director of “Digital Fashion: An Oriental Expression of Gravity” at the Yizhihui Art Gallery in Shenzhen, where she designed the exhibition design and two site-specific thread installations. At the latest Milan Fashion Week, the show for designer Huizhou Zhao's MODA Hui brand at Palazzo Turati revolved around a large site-specific installation and her participation as a performative act, using the red thread as a common thread linking East and West. Her works are held in public collections in China, such as the Eachway Art and Fashion Museum in Shenzhen and the Belt and Road Ceramics Expo Center in Rongchang, as well as in Italian museums. Among the most significant exhibitions in her home country were the solo exhibition "A casa aveva tre sedie" at the MUACC in Cagliari, curated by Simona Campus, and the selection, in 2025, of "In tasca solo pezzi di casa" as the image for the 29th edition of Monumenti Aperti.

A dialogue between generations. Cortese himself explains the reason for this choice, retracing the space's origins. " The Gramma_Epsilon Gallery in Athens was born from the idea of highlighting female art," he explains. "From the beginning, we have given voice to artists who, almost all now over ninety, ideally follow the path traced by Mirella Bentivoglio: women who have traversed the history of twentieth-century art and who have left a profound mark on research into language and materials ." With Serreli, however, something changes. " This is the first time the gallery has opened an exhibition featuring a younger artist," Cortese continues, "a figure who connects to the artistic experiences already present in our program without simply being its heir. The idea was to bring the historical avant-gardes into dialogue with the present, to demonstrate that that thread has not been broken but continues to produce new languages ." In this space, according to the curator, Serreli's work finds a natural home: "With her book-object, her experiments, and her research on materials, she fits perfectly into this journey. Her way of working with fabric, thread, and stone speaks the language of the great pioneers we have hosted, but does so with a contemporary sensibility."