He studied art, sculpture and architecture and he graduated at the Ecole Nationale Superieure. In Milan he becomes an active exponent of the new artistic scene. In particular, he establishes relationships of friendship and collaboration with Manzoni, with whom he forms an artistic association. Fruitful relationships of cultural exchange are also happening with Agostino Bonalumi and Lucio Fontana. After the first informal experiences, probably inspired by American painting and, above all, by Mark Tobey, recognizing this art as ripe for overcoming, he elaborates, with the collaboration of Azimuth magazine, a new beginning that proposes a total reset of the previous artistic experience, based on a new covenant with social progress. This reset is made by Manzoni, Castellani and Bonalumi with the use of monocrome tones, often wholly white, extroflexed with various techniques to create light effects and changing shadows with the inclination of the light source. It was an entirely original experience and considered of fundamental importance in the history of abstract art of the twentieth century, not only in the Italian scene. Castellani and Bonalumi initiated a rigorous study and analysis of the possibilities offered by the extrusion of the canvas by the use of nails, metal and wood shapes inserted behind the canvas. The work of Castellani, in particular, from the work of 1959 "Relief Black Surface", despite the constant fidelity to the artistic medium initially chosen, is considered by many critics of extreme purity, where the repetition of the carefully chosen of the full and the voids given by the rhythmic extrusion of the canvas is a new, though coherent and intense, path. Even in rare works on paper, he succeeded in realizing his very own style of rhythmic extroflexion. He has participated in numerous international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale in 1964, 1966 and 2003, Documenta of Kassel in 1968 at The responsive eye, New York's MoMa in 1965 and the "Identité Italienne" exhibition at the center G. Pompidou of Paris. He also exhibited, among the numerous exhibitions dedicated to him, the 1965 São Paulo Biennial and the great staff at the Prada Foundation in Milan in 2001.

2009
Galleria Arte Invernizzi con François Morellet, Padua, Italy
Museion, Bolzano, Italy

2008
“Time & Place, Milan/Turin 1958-68” Moderna Museet, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, Stockholm

2006-2007
Galleria Fumagalli, Bergamo, Italy
Muzeum Milana Dobeza, Bratislava
Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples, Italy
Museion, Bolzano, Italy
Mart, Rovereto, Italy
CAMeC, Centro Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, La Spezia, Italy
LAC , libera arte contemporanea, Rome, Italy

2005- 2006
Museo Pushkin delle Belle Arti, Mosca

2004
Galerie Di Meo, Paris

2003
“Le stanze di Enrico Castellani”, Vistamare Associazione Cultura, Pescara, Italy

2002
“England, Kettle's Yard”, Cambridge
“Opus Incertum”, Mostra in sette situazioni, Gall. Franca Mancini, Pesaro, Italy
“La visione del pensiero”, Borromini Arte Contemporanea, Ozzano Monferrato, Alessandria, Italy
Galerie Meert Rihoux, Bruxelles

2001
Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
Galleria Fumagalli, Bergamo, Italy

1999
Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan, Italy
Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy

1997
Galleria Fumagalli, Bergamo, Italy

1996
Palazzo Fabroni, Arti Visive Contemporanee, Pistoia, Italy

1994
Museo Laboratorio Università La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

1993
Galleria Corraini, Mantova, Italy

1992
Galleria Ehra, Milan, Italy

1991
Galleria Netta Vespignani, Rome, Italy
Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
Lorenzelli Arte, Milan, Italy

1990
Galerie Rioux Meert, Bruxelles
Galleria Poleschi, Forte dei Marmi, Italy

1989
Valente Arte contemporanea, Finale Ligure, Italy
Castello di Volpaia, Radda in Chianti, Italy
Galleria Cinquetti, Verona, Italy
Galleria Niccoli, Parma, Italy

1988
Galleria Di Meo, Paris
Galleria Corraini, Mantova, Italy
Galleria Niccoli, Parma, Italy
Kodama Gallery, Osaka
Galleria La Polena, Genoa, Italy

1987
Albert Totah Gallery, New York
Edward Totah Gallery, London
Galleria Raffaeli, Trento, Italy

1986
Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples, Italy
Galleria Eva Menzio, Turin, Italy
Lorenzelli Arte, Milan, Italy

1985
Galleria Plurima, Udine, Italy
Galleria Arco d’Alibert, Rome, Italy
Galleria il Sole, Bolzano, Italy

1984
Galleria Pero, Milan, Italy
Galleria Locus Solus, Genoa, Italy
Pinacoteca comunale, Ravenna, Italy
Loggetta Lombardesca, Italy

1983
Studio La Torre, Pistoia, Italy

1981
Galleria Peccolo, Livorno, Italy
Galleria Plurima, Udine, Italy
Galleria Multimedia, Brescia, Italy
Kon Gallery, Tokyo
Galleria Plure, Milan, Italy

1980
Ariete grafica, Milan, Italy
Galleria Ciuli, Lecco, Italy
Galleria Sagittario, Perugia, Italy

1979
Galleria Arte al Borgo, Palermo, Italy
Galleria Mazzoli, Modena, Italy
Studio la Città, Verona, Italy

1976
Sala della scuderia alla Pilotta, Parma, Italy
Galleria la Polena, Genoa, Italy
Ariete Grafica, Milan, Italy
Galleria Peccolo, Livorno, Italy

1974
Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome, Italy
Galleria Notizie, Turin, Italy
Galleria dei Mille, Brescia, Italy
Galleria la Nuova Città, Brescia, Italy

1972
Galleria dell’Ariete, Milan, Italy
Galleria Forma, Genoa, Italy

1971
Artestudio, Macerata, Italy

1970
Galerie M, Bochum
Galleria la Tartaruga, Rome, Italy

1966
Galleria Notizie, Turin, Italy
Galleria la Tartaruga, Rome, Italy
Betty Persons gallery, New York
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo

1965
Galerie Lawrence, Paris
Galleria la Tartaruga, Rome, Italy

1964
Galleria La Polena, Genoa, Italy
Galleria Notizie, Turin, Italy
Galleria del Leone, Venice, Italy
Galerie Wulfengasse, Klegenfurt

1963
Galleria dell’Ariete, Milan, Italy

1962
Galleria aujord’hui, Bruxelles

1961
New Vision Center, London
Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome, Italy

1960
Galleria Azimuth, Milan, Italy

1959
Galerie Kasper, Lausanne, Italy

2010
“Monocromia nelle profondità del colore”, AntiGallery, Venice, Italy
“Spazio. Tempo. Immagine.”, CIAC , Centro Italiano Arte Contemporanea, Foligno, Perugia, Italy
“Civica 1989 – 2009 Celebratio. Institution. Critique.” , Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento, Italy

2009
“L’arabesco. La forma più antica e originaria della fantasia umana”, Santo Ficara, Florence
“Accardi / Alviani / Castellani . Il linguaggio si fa spazio.”, Santo Ficara, Milan
“Monocromo. L’utopia del colore”, Convento del Carmine, Marsala
“Una Merda nel cuore e amici”, Spirale, Milan, Italy
“Enrico Castellani/ François Morellet, Arte Studio Invernizzi Seragiotto, Padua, Italy
“Cromofobie”, Ex Aurum, Pescara, Italy
“AcRometica” , EdiEuropa Qui Arte Contemporanea , Rome
“Around Rotella. L’ artista e il suo tempo”, MAON – Museo d’Arte dell’ Ottocento e Novecento, Rende, Cosenza, Italy

2008
“Sotto Voce” with Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama, Brice Marden, Francois Morellet, Pierre Soulages, Günther Uecker, Lee Ufan and Christopher Wool, Yvon Lambert, New York
“Camouflage l: Enrico Castellani, Iza Genzken, Imi Knoebel”, Galleria Gentilli, Prato, Italy
“Rome – Open Painting: The Material Picture in Italy during the 1950’s and 1960’s” ZKM l Museum of Contemporary Art, Hamburg

2007
Museo de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand - MASP, São Paulo
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch
Recommended Institution Dabbeni, Studio d´arte contemporanea, Lugano
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Ciriè, Turin, Italy
Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren

2006
Galleria Fumagalli Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
Museo Cantonale d´Arte Lugano, Lugano
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt
Biennale di Sculture di Carrara, Carrara, Italy
CAMeC - Centro de Arte Moderna e Contemporanea della Spezia, La Spezia, Italy
Herning Kunstmuseum, Herning
Galerie Wack, Kaiserslautern
Muzeum Chelmskie w. Chelmie, Chelm
recommended institution galleria Enrico Fornello, Prato, Italy
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg
Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo

2005
CAMeC - Centro de Arte Moderna e Contemporanea della Spezia, La Spezia, Italy
“Enrico Castellani - Ettore Spalletti - Jan Vercruysse - Mario Airò” Recommended Institution galleria Enrico Fornello, Prato, Italy
“La materia dell’Arte”, Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy
Eröffnungsausstellung - SQUARE - Die Sammlung Marli Hoppe-Ritter, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch
Prague Biennale, Prague

2004
Galerie Di Meo, Paris
Galleria Fumagalli Bergamo, Italy
Galleria Santo Ficara, Florence, Italy
Villa Croce Museo d´Arte Contemporanea, Genoa, Italy
Iziko South African National Art Gallery, Cape Town
Lorenzelli Arte, Milan, Italy
Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
Galleria Civica d’arte contemporanea Montevergini, Siracusa, Italy
Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria
Galleria Il Ponte, Florence, Italy

2003
“Le stanze di Enrico Castellani”, Vistamare Associazione Cultura, Pesaro, Italy.

2002
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge.
“Opus Incertum, Mostra in sette situazioni”, Galleria Franca Mancini, Pesaro, Italy.
“La visione del pensiero”, Borromini Arte Contemporanea, Ozzano Monferrato, Alessandria, Italy
Galerie Meert Rihoux, Bruxelles.

2001
Fondazione Prada, mostra personale, Milan, Italy.
Galleria Fumagalli, Bergamo, Italy.

1999
Galleria Lia Rumma, mostra personale, Milan, Italy
Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy

1997
Galleria Fumagalli, Bergamo, Italy

1996
“Wide White Space”, Mac, Galerie contemporaines des Musèes de Marseille, Marseille

1995
“Maestri contemporanei”, Centro Tornabuoni, Florence, Italy
“Rinascimento”, galleria degli Uffizi, sala delle Reali Poste, Florence, Italy
“Wide White Space”, Kunstmuseum, Bonn
“Die Italienische Metamorphose 1943- 1968”, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg
“Ad usum Fabricae”, locali ex Accademia di Belle Arti, L’Aquila, Italy
“Corrispondenze”, Limonaia di Palagio fiorentino, Stia, Italy.
Castellani, Munari, Dorazio”, galleria Corraini, Mantova, Italy.
“Zero Italia- Aizmuth/Azimuth 1959-60 a Milan – E oggi”, Gallerie der Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen

1994
“Città di Lecco per l’Arte”, Villa Manzoni, Lecco, Italy
“Trilogia 4: Castellani, Fogliati, Albanese”, Rocca Paolina, Perugia, Italy
“Da Chagall a Picasso, da Pollock a Gragg”, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy.
“Wide White Space”, Palais des Beaux Arts/Palais voor Schone Kunsten, Bruxelles
“The Italian Metamorphosis 1943- 1968”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
“The artist and the book in twentieth century Italy”, Collezione Penny Guggenheim, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, Venice, Italy.
“Artisti di Villa Maria- Sineddoche di un museo”, casa della Cultura , Cisternino del Poccianti, Livorno, Italy.
“Di carta e d’altro- libri d’artista”, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Luigi pecci, Sala grafica, Prato, Italy.

1993
“Omaggio a Carla Lonzi”, XLV Mostra Internazionale d’Arte : punti cardinali dell’arte, Venice, Italy
“Three artistic generations in contemporary Italy”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv

1992
“La collection M.me Cristian Stein: un regard sur l’art italien”, Nouveau Musèe, Villeurbanne
“tensioni di superficie”, galleria d’arte Niccoli, Parma, Italy
“Identitat, Differenz”, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
“The artist and the book in twentieth century Italy”, Museum of Modern Art, New York
“Zero, eine Europaische Avantgarde”, galerie Neher, Essen
“Zero, eine Europaische Avantgarde” galerie Heset, Munchen
“Zero, eine Europaische Avantgarde” Mittelhein Museum, Koblenz

1991
“Collezione privata”, galleria d’arte moderna e contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy
“Bildlicht : Malarei zwischen Material und Immaterial”, Museum des 20 Jahrunderts, Wien
“Sammlung Cremer”, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund

1990
“La otra escultura: treinta anos de escultura italiana”, Centro de arte Reina Sofia, Palacio de Cristal, Madrid
“La otra escultura: treinta anos de escultura italiana”, Centro de Cultura contemporanea de Barcelona Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona
Museum Matilde Hohe , Darmstadt
“Memoria del futuro” Centro de arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
“Millenovecentosessanta”, galleria Netta Vespignani, Rome, Italy
“Rome anni ’60 – al di la della pittura”, Palazzo delle esposizioni, Rome, Italy
“Getulio Alviani, Enrico Castellani, Piero Dorazio- opere degli anni ‘60”, galleria Seno, Milan, Italy
“La pelle dell’arte : riflessioni sulla superficie”, Istituto d’arte Dosso Dossi, Ferrara, Italy
“I rossori dell’arte”, galleria d’arte Niccoli, Parma, Italy
“L’occhio sull’informale”, studio Carlo Grossetti, Milan, Italy
“Triadi”, galleria Erha, Milan, Italy

1989
“Castellani e Morellet”, galleria Giuli, Lecco, Italy
“Un probabile umore dell’idea”, galleria d’arte Niccoli, Parma, Italy
“Extra Moenia”, galleria Rizziero, Teramo, Italy
“La tela estroflessa nell’area milanese dal 1958 a oggi”, ArteStruktura, Milan, Italy
“Arte contemporanea per un museo”, Padiglione d’arte contemporanea, Milan, Italy
“Ad Villam”, Spazio Walter Banci, Prato, Italy
“In superficie- un percorso astratto”, Studio Durante, Rome, Italy

1988
“Astratta”, palazzo Forti, Verona, Italy
Sammlung T, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, St.Gallen
“Maestri della pittura moderna”, Centro Tornabuoi, Florence, Italy
“La couleur seule. L’experience de monocrome”, Musèe Saint Pierre art contemporain, Lyon

1987
“50-80 alta tensione”, Palazzo delle mostre e dei congressi, Alba, Italy
“Tridente due – Rome 1987 : artisti e movimenti in Italia”, galleria Arco d’Alibert, Rome, Italy
“Il grande circo 1973- 1987- 15 anni di arte italiana alla fiere europee”, Studio la città, Verona, Italy
“Buren, Castellani, Pascali”, Le case d’arte , Milan, Italy

1986
“Maestri della pittura moderna”, Centro Tornabuoi, Florence, Italy
“Seimaggio millenovecentoottantasei”, galleria Eva Mezio, Turin, Italy
“Castellani, Fontana, Nigro”, galleria Seno, Milan, Italy
“Castellani, Fontana, Nigro”, Edward Totah Gallery, London

1985
“In Chartis”, museo della Carta e della Filigrana, Fabriano, Italy

1984
Galleria Plurima, Udine, Italy
Galleria il Ponte, Rome, Italy
Studio Tre architettura, Milan, Italy
“Azimuth e Azimuth 2” , Padiglione arte contemporanea, Milan, Italy
“Ouverture”, castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy

1983
Galleria Plurima, Udine, Italy
“Arte programmata e cinetica 1953- 63 l’ultima avanguardia”, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
“Artisti italiani contemporanei 1950 – 1983”, Chiesa di S. Samuele, Italy
“Aniconicità europea ’50 – ’60 “, Vismara Arte, Italy

1982
Galleria Pieroni, Rome, Italy
“L’enigma geometrico”, Studio Grossetti, Milan, Italy

1981
“Identitè italienne – l’art en Italie de puis 1959”, Centre Pompidou, Paris
“Linee della ricerca artistica in Italia 1960 – 1980”, Palazzo delle esposizioni, Rome, Italy
“Il materiale delle arti”, Castello Sforzesco, Milan, Italy
“Phoenix”, Alte Oper, Frankfurt

1979
“International biennal of grafic art”, Moderna galerjia, Lublijana

1977
Galleria de Foscherari, Bologna, Italy
“Milan invece di Milan”, Museo di Milan, Milan, Italy
“L’uomo e il suo spazio”, Francavilla a Mare, Italy

1976
“Europa e America- l’astrazione determinata 1960 – 1976”, Galleria d’arte moderna, Bologna, Italy

1975
“9 quadri e una scultura”, Galleria la Tartaruga, Rome, Italy
Studio Luca Palazzoli, Milan, Italy
“Revisione num. 1 , lavori su carta”, Galleria dell’Ariete, Milan, Italy

1974
“Azimuth- mostra documentaria”, galleria Primo Piano, Rome, Italy
Galerie Kunst Borse, Koln
“Basically White” , Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

1973
“Contemporanea”, Parcheggio di Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy
“Participio Presente”, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, Italy
Italienska Kulturinsititute, Stockholm

1972
“Quale chiarezza?”, Galleria de Foscherari, Bologna, Italy
“Otto Piene Lichtballet und Kunstler der Gruppe Zero”, galerie Heseler, Munchen
“Alviani, Castellani, Colombo”, Wien

1971
“Venti Artisti Italiani”, Museo di Arte Moderna, Ciudad de Mexico
“Elf Italiener Heute”, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
“Maestri italiani”, Galleria Lorenzelli, Milan, Italy
University of California Art Galleries, Santa Barbara
“Espo Stedelijk”, Ateneum, Helsinki

1970
“Vitalità del negativo nell’arte italiana 1960-70”, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
“Rigore e Utopia a Milan”, galleria la Tartaruga, Milan, Italy
“Due decenni di eventi artistici in Italia”, palazzo Pretorio, Prato, Italy

1969
“Hommage a Fontana”, Kunst und Museumverein, Wuppertal
Staats galerie, Stuttgart
“Contemporary Art dialogue between the Est and the West”, national Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

1968
“Mostra di arte italiana”, Stockholm
“Plus by minus- to day’s hal century” Albright Knox, Buffalo
Tokio Gallery, Tokio
Documenta 4 , Kassel
“Teatro delle mostre”, galleria La Tartaruga, Rome, Italy
“Many italian Artists”, Jewish Museum, New York
Institute of Contemporary Art, Venice, Italy
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Kustmarkt, Koln

1967
“Realtà e strutture della visione” , Galleria il Cerchio, Rome, Italy
“Mostra di arte italiana”, Belfast
“Mostra di arte italiana”, Edimburg
“mostra di arte italiana”, Tokio
Galleria la Nuova Loggia, Bologna, Italy
Galleria il Cenobio, Milan, Italy
Palazzo dei musei, galleria della Sala della Cultura, Modena, Italy
Padiglione italiano esposizione Mondiale, Montreal
Galleria Notizie, Turin, Italy
“Spazio dell’Immagine”, Palazzo Trinci, Foligno, Italy
“Nuove tecniche d’immagine”, VI Biennale di San Marino, Palazzo dei Congressi, San Marino, Italy
Biennale di san Benedetto del Tronto, Italy
Galleria Sincron, Brescia, Italy
Galleria Zen, Brescia, Italy
Centro Librario Romegnosi, Piacenza, Italy
Galerie Denise Renè- Hans mayer, Krefeld
Galleria Annunciata, Milan, Italy
Galleria Senatore , Stuttgart
Galleria d’Arte Moderna, il Chiodo, Palermo, Italy
“Nuova Tendenza Arte Programmata italiana”, Sala comunale delle esposizioni, Reggio Emilia, Italy

1966
XXXIII Biennale di Venezia, Italy
Galleria Bonino, New York
Galleria il Centro, Napoli, Italy
“Castellani, Pace, Santoro, Gruppo 1”, Centro proproste, Florence, Italy
“Mostra di Arte Italiana”, Tel Aviv
“Mostra di arte italiana”, Oslo
“Mostra di arte italiana”, Dortmund
“Pittura oggetto a Milan”, galleria Arco d’Alibert, Rome, Italy
“Zero avant garde 1966”, Galleria il Segno, Rome, Italy
Biennale nazionale di Arte Contemporanea, Palazzo della provincia, Bari, Italy
“Exibithion of Italian Art”, gallerie Bishofberger, Zurigo
Galleria Zen, Brescia, Italy
“Third exibithion Dept.”, Nagaoka Museum, Nagaoka
“Bianco + Bianco”, galleria l’Obelisco, Italy
“New Art in Philadelphia”, University of Pennsylavania, Philadelphia
“Italian Art”, Bucarest
“Castellani, Ceroli, Festa, Kounellis, Rotella, Schifano, Twombly”, galleria La tartaruga, Rome, Italy

1965
“The responsive eye”, Moma, New York
“Nul negentienhonderdvijf en zestig deel 1 teksten”, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
“Una generazione – Adami, Angeli, Aricò, castellani, Del Pezzo, Festa, Mari, Pozzati, Recalcati, Schifano”, galleria Odyssa, Rome, Italy
“Aspetti dell’arte contemporanea”, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
VIII Biennale di San Paolo Graz, Trigon 65, San Paolo
Galerie Aktuell, Bern
XIV Premio Lissone, Lissone

1964
Guggenheim International Award- the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Galleria Lorenzelli, Milan, Italy
XXXII Biennale di Venezia, Italy
“On the move”, Roward Wise Gallery, New York
“Disegni”, Galleria Odyssa, Rome, Italy

1963
Premio il Fiorino, Florence, Italy
Galleria Il Cancello, Bologna, Italy
“Nuove tendenze II”; galleria Querini Stampalia, Italy
Galleria del Deposito, Genoa, Italy

1962
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
“Zero”, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Gallerie Hossenhuis, Antwerpen
Premio Apollinaire, Venice, Italy
“Contrasti”, Galleria Cadario, Italy
Galerie Delta, Rotterdam

1961
XII Premio Lissone, Lissone
Kunstmuseum, Trier
Galerie Denise Renè, Paris
“Nuove Tendenze I”, Zagreb

1960
Musèe d’Ixelles, Bruxelles
“Monocrome Malerei”, Kunstmuseum, Leverkusen

1959
Galerie Schmit, Bruxelles

1958
Galleria Pater, Milan, Italy