ESSAYS 

João Silvério | Brief notes on the metrics of annotation

Essay for the exhibition Annotations on Zeno's consciousness, Galeria 111, Lisbon

March 2018

Celso Martins | A certain degree of impurity

Essay published in the exhibition catalog Decadança, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea - Museu do Chiado, Lisbon

September 2017

Paulo Cunha e Silva | A theory of waste

Essay published in the exhibition catalog One Hundred And Six Columns, Four Heads And One Table, Villa Concordia, Bamberg

March 2011

Nora-Eugenie Gomringer | The rule of 12, 4, 365, and one

Essay published in the exhibition catalog One Hundred And Six Columns, Four Heads And One Table, Villa Concordia, Bamberg

March 2011

Catarina Marto | I am question oriented

Essay for the exhibition-screening Another Autointerview, Télétheque Project at Alliance Française de Lisbonne

February 2010

Hugo Dinis | Thank you João!

Essay for the exhibition Timeline, Galeria 111, Lisbon

April 2009

Hugo Dinis |  The Unbuilding of Man

Essay published in the exhibition catalog The Umbuilding of Man, Serralves Foundation / Galeria Municipal de Torres Vedras

November 2007

Bruno Marchand | As time goes by...

Essay for the exhibition As time goes by, Galeria 111, Lisbon

September 2006

REVIEWS 

José Luís Porfirio | Decadança 

Review in Expresso / Revista Atual 

October 2017

Celso Martins | Smoke signs

Review in Expresso / Revista Actual

December 2013

Celso Martins | Living kills

Review in Expresso / Revista Actual

July 2011

José Marmeleira | Sculptures, canvas and cigarettes

Review in Público / Revista Ípsilon

June 2011

Maria do Mar Fazenda | Why  are you conducting this interview?

Review in L+Arte magazine

May 2009

Pedro Faro | Vices and virtues

Profile article in L+Arte magazine

October 2006

Miguel Amado | João Leonardo and Francisco Vidal

Review in Artforum.com

September 2006

Paula Lobo | How it is (im)possible to measure time when vices and virtues are repeated

Review in Diário de Notícias

September 2006

Nuno Crespo | Exhibited ambiguity

Review in Público

December 2005

Ana Luísa Barão | Body fluids and contemporary art

Review in verbover.blogspot.com

December 2005

INTERVIEWS

Sérgio Parreira  | Interview with João Leonardo 

Published in Artecapital.art

July 2020

Emília Ferreira | Interview with João Leonardo  

Interview for the group exhibition Fazer Sentido / Make Sense at Casa da Cerca-Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Almada

May 2017

Jürgen Bock | An Interview with João Leonardo

Published in the exhibition catalog One Hundred And Six Columns, Four Heads And One Table, Villa Concordia, Bamberg

March 2011

Lisa Hauke & Maria Wüstenhagen  |  “The body canvas” An in-depth interview about João Leonardo’s body politics 

Published in the exhibition leaflet One Hundred And Six Columns, Four Heads And One Table, Villa Concordia, Bamberg

January 2011

ARTIST WRITINGS

João Leonardo | List of Words (for Paulo Damião)

Text published in Paulo Damião catalog Narcissus experience, Lisbon

September 2021 

João Leonardo | Hans Egede Scherer “Eeehs ursprung” / Notes on process, research and discourse

Essay for Hans Egede Scherer exhibition  Eeehs urspung at BABEL visningsrom for kunst, Trondheim, Norway

February 2021 

João Leonardo | Body | Language | Repetition | Collection | Time

MFA essay published in the Malmö Art Academy Yearbook 2008-2009

April 2009

João Leonardo | Sol Lewitt's Sun

Obituary text published in L+Arte magazine

April 2007