In the first space of the exhibition, four paintings of Orlando Manifesting 2022 are hung, one on each wall. This presentation suggests a rotating circular dynamic in the room parallel to the physical rotation of Joseph Nechvatal’s The Viral Tempest record as it is played (published by Pentiments). Nechvatal also links this circular dynamic to his memory of Quad, a 1981 television play by Samuel Beckett, in which four asexual, gowned fi-gures turn around and revolve around a stage with defined patterns.

The second room of Turning the Viral Tempest features diptychs and triptychs presented in a line previously shown in 2020. Taken as a whole, Turning the Viral Tempest indirectly addresses issues of gender plasticity in our tumultuous viral and socio-political times by imagining non-existent mythical scenes from Virginia Woolf’s 1928 casual novel Orlando (the story of a young aristocratic poet who transforms into a woman overnight and lives for 300 years).

In 2002 the gallery moved to Saint-Louis island, adopted the new name of Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard as well as a new exhibition program that was more focused on new painting. The gallery mostly organized solo shows with new artists such as Kiyoshi Nakagami, Yek, Paul Henry Ramirez, Carl Fudge, Adam Ross,  Hervé Heuzé, Beverly Fishman, Alice Stepanek & Steven Maslin, Scott Anderson, Yuichi Higashionna, Shirley Kaneda, Tim Bavington.

In 2006 the gallery moved to its current location in the Marais and doubled its space in 2007 with a 400 square meter exhibition space. In 2007 the gallery joined the Professional Committee of Art Galleries. The gallery exhibited emerging artists such as David Ryan, Sven-Ole Frahm, and more established ones such as Bram Bogart, Ron Gorchov, Frank Stella, Judy Pfaff, Alain Kirili, Linda Besemer, Joseph Nechvatal.  In the exhibition The Incomplete – Paris in 2010, the gallery introduced 28 artists collected by Hubert Neumann.

In 2011 they opened a second gallery in Chelsea in New York The gallery name was changed in Galerie Richard. In 2012 they presented a Takesada Matsutani’s retrospective exhibition in Paris and in 2013 a double show in New York and Paris. In 2014 they organized an itinerary exhibition John M Armleder – Jean Carzou in New York, Paris, and Miami at Untitled. The gallery has developed a digital photography program with Dionisio González, Li Wei, Lauren Marsolier, Olaf Rauh and Yang Yi. In 2015 Galerie Richard sold a major work by Matsutani to The Centre Georges Pompidou. In 2015 they moved to Lower East Side. Jeremy Thomas joined both galleries, and Scott Anderson came back to the Parisian gallery. In 2018 the gallery was pleased to represent Koen Delaere, Sebastian Ludwig, Eduardo Portillo, Dennis Hollingsworth and Kim Young-Hun. In 2019 the gallery is representing Gustavo Prado, Rainer Gross. In 2021 the gallery is representing Rémy Hysbergue, Chris Finley, Joeggu Hossmann.