In 2005, Richard Castelli expanded the activities of Epidemic with the creation of an exhibition department to present artworks of the leading new media artists in the fields of digital art, sound and light art, robotic art, etc. He curated several exhibitions in Germany (
Licht! Ljus! Lumière! at
Haus der Berliner Festspiele in 2005 and
Vom Funken zum Pixel at
Martin-Gropius-Bau in 2007–2008, in Berlin), and co-curated
The Art of Immersion I with
Dennis Del Favero and
Peter Weibel at the
ZKM - Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe in 2017-2018. Recently he was appointed as chief curator of the exhibition
Dimensions, Digital Arts since 1859 featuring about 60 artworks from the pioneers to contemporary artists in a space covering 10,000 square meters of a former factory in Leipzig in 2023. In 2024, he co-curated the exhibition
À la recherche de Vera Molnar in Budapest, an international tribute to the artistic legacy of
Vera Molnar, a pioneer of computing art, who died shortly before her 100th birthday in 2023. He was also curator of five exhibitions for the Romaeuropa Festival in Italy, two of which in co-operation with the
Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome MACRO Testaccio (2010 and 2016), and the last at the
Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Roma (2017). In France, the curated two exhibitions commissioned by Bethune Capitale Régionale de la Culture in 2011:
Matière-Lumière and
Transformer and also exhibitions in the national performing arts centres
Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy, Maison des Arts de Créteil, Le Volcan in Le Havre, Le Manège in Maubeuge, La Filature in Mulhouse and le lieu unique in Nantes
. As part of the exhibition
Robotic Art, which he curated for the
Cité des sciences et de l'industrie in Paris in 2014-2015, was inaugurated the 3D Water Matrix, a computer controlled display of animated three-dimensional liquid artworks, he designed, from an original idea he discussed with artist
Shiro Takatani in 2000. The 3D Water Matrix received the CODAawards Winner 2015 in the category "institutional". He was also the artistic director of the
Francofffonies! Québec_numériQ event featuring the Quebec avant-garde artists in digital arts at
Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris in 2006. Outside Europe, he was invited to organise or co-curate several exhibitions in China, in the major museums of Beijing (
NAMOC - Musée National d'Art de Chine in 2008), Shanghai (
Zendai MoMA in 2006 and 2008, Sculpture Art Space in 2007,
Science and Technology Museum in 2008,
Power Station of Art in 2017) and Chengdu (inaugural exhibition of the new relocated A4 Contemporary Arts Center newly entitled LUXELAKES•A4 Art Museum in 2017). In 2010 and 2011, he curated the two exhibitions
Madde-Isik 1 and
Madde-Isik 2 in Istanbul (Borusan Foundation). In Russia, Richard Castelli is the first and to date the sole foreign artistic director of Nikola-Lenivets Archstoyanie Architecture Festival, located 200 km away from Moscow. For this 9th exhibition held in 2014, he focused on the notion of temporality in architecture. He is author of several essays, including ''Robots d'artistes ou robots artistes?
in the collective book Robots extraordinaires
published by Futuroscope FYP (2006), Hu Jieming, A World in Thickness
, a monography of the Chinese artist Hu Jieming, published by Li Zenhua, Shanghart (2010), A Future where we are already in
in Romaeuropa Digitalife 2010 2011 2012 - Human Connections''. == References ==