- Mourão, Rui (2022) “Between Europe and the Amazon - From the ritual of the art of power to the power of the art of ritual”; Arterials – Journal of the Graduate Program in Arts of the Federal University of Pará (Brazil), vol. 7, nr. 12; online.

- Mourão, Rui (2021) "From utopia to participation: a transformative artistic laboratory"; Creative processes in sciences and arts: the public participation's issue; Nabais, Catarina (Ed.); Lisbon: Afrontamento Editions.

- Mourão, Rui (2021) "The specular ambiguity of art between interpretation and expression, separation and relation, the self and the other"; Aesthetics, art and intimacy; Correia, Carlos; Ferreira, Emília (Eds.); Lisbon: Ed. Universitas Olisiponensis.

- Eklöf, Hanna (2020) "Portugisiske konstnären samlar in filmer om Gnosjöandan: ”Kreativa och envisa människor”"; article about Rui Mourão's art project in Gnosjö; Värnamo Nyheter (Swedish Newspaper); online.

- Mourão, Rui (2020) "Getting out, getting in: Amerindian and European perspectives around the museum"; ICME News - International Committee for Museums and Collections of Ethnography - Issue 90 (August); online.

- Larín, Letícia (2019) "Rui Mourão’s artistic discourses vis-à-vis indigenous trends: the bodymanifesto in the multicultural dialogue"; :ESTÚDIO - research and studies in fine arts; Artists write about the work of other artists; vol. 10, nr. 28, (Magazine with double blind peer review of FBAUL - Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon); online.

- Mourão, Rui (2019) "Huni Kuin Laboratory: art as research of the self in relation with the other", Inland Journal, nr. 16; Cepeda, André; Matos, Eduardo (Eds.); Porto; independent paper publication and online.

- Cordeiro, Filipa; Mourão, Rui (2019) "The Time of the Huacas"; Minutes of the 9th annual encounter of AIM - Association of Moving Image Researchers; Alves, Marta; Bello, Maria Rosário; Álvarez, Iván (Eds.); Santiago de Compostela (Spain); online.

- Mourão, Rui (2019) "Huni Kuin Laboratory: ritual and art, performance and video, body and image"; Body in cinema: perception, representation and movement; C&T - Cinema e Território, nr. 4 (Madeira University Magazine for Arts and Anthropology of Images); online.

- Kuylenstierna, Anna (2018) "Se konstnärens feministiska performance"; article about Rui Mourão's artwork with Lillian Jacobsson, Louise Persson and Rebecca Carlsson; Västgöta-Bladet (Swedish Newspaper); online.

- Kuylenstierna, Anna (2018) "Hans konstprojekt: en feministisk Valborg"; article about Rui Mourão's art project in Skövde; Skövde Nyheter (Swedish Newspaper); online.

- Mourão, Rui (2018) "Art and Post-truth: the specular question from the philosophical, political and human sciences point of view"; Configurações Journal (Minho University, with double blind peer-review); online.

- Mourão, Rui (2018) "Do desejo da memória à reconfiguração do futuro: um exercício de desfragmentação da relação da arte com a noção de verdade"; Laboratório Colaborativo: Dinâmicas Urbanas, Património, Artes; online.

- Cordeiro, Filipa; Mourão, Rui (Eds.); et al. (2018) Non-official catalogue of the Carmo Museum's Chancay Collection; Lisbon; independent paper publication and online.

- Mourão, Rui (2018) "La Milagrosa: a visual essay on rituals and aesthetics of Afro-Cuban syncretism"; GIS - Gesto, Imagem e Som - Revista de Antropologia (São Paulo University, with double blind peer-review); online.

- Mourão, Rui (2017) "Our Dreams Don't Fit In Your Ballot Boxes. An artivist performance in three acts"; History of the Portuguese Performance Art; Art History Magazine (published by Art History Institut / FCSH - Nova University Lisbon, with double blind peer-review); online.

- Mourão, Rui (2017) "Os Nossos Sonhos Não Cabem Nas Vossas Urnas: Um laboratório de experimentação artivista"; Revista Cidades, Comunidades e Territórios, nº 34, pp. 61 - 71, DINÂMIA’CET-IUL (ISCTE, with double blind peer-review); online.

- Mourão, Rui (2017) "The performance is the message"; performance in the public sphere; Pais; Ana (Ed.); with support of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; Lisbon: Ed. Orfeu Negro.

- Mourão, Rui (2016) "La Milagrosa - criação artística e investigação antropológica entre divindades africanas e religiosidades católicas"; Buala; online.

- Mourão, Rui (2015) "Artivist performances: incorporating aesthetics of dissent into ethics of resistance"; Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia (with double blind peer-review); online.

- Gentiluomo, Annunziato (2015) "Rui Mourão... Quella che sarebbe dovuta essere la sua arte a Torino"; ArtInMovimento (Italian magazine); online.

- Ramos de Almeida, Nuno (2014) "Interview with Rui Mourão"; Jornal i (Portuguese newspaper); published on paper and online.

- Marmeleira, José (2015) Rui Mourão: Ciclo Budapeste; catalogue about the art work that Rui Mourão did in Budapest with the support of CML and that was exhibited in Quadrum Gallery; Lisbon: EGEAC.

- Mourão, Rui (2014) "When art irrupts in people’s lives – Par II"; Artecapital (Portuguese art magazine); online.

- Mourão, Rui (2014) "When art irrupts in people’s lives – Par I"; Artecapital (Portuguese art magazine); online.

- Moura, Catarina (2014) "In the name of Culture for all, around 70 people became statues at the National Museum of Ancient Art"; article about a collective artivist performance created by Rui Mourão; Público (Portuguese newspaper); published on paper and online.

- Martins, Celso (2014) "The art of occupying"; art critic about Rui Mourão's work at the Portuguese newspaper Expresso - Arts & Ideas section.

- Mourão, Rui (2014) An essay on Artivism – video and performance; a book that is part of the artistic project (with a video installation and an artivist performance) presented at the National Museum of Contemporary Art – Museu do Chiado; Lisbon: MNAC.

- Mourão, Rui (2014) "The Carnival Is a Stage, The Island a Feast: from cultural performance to an exhibition of its videographic metaperformance"; MIDAS – Museum Interdisciplinary Studies, Nr. 3 (with double blind peer-review); online.

- Mourão, Rui (2012) The Carnival Is a Stage, The Island a Feast; catalogue of an itinerant individual exhibition at the National Museum of Ethnology, Museum of Angra do Heroísmo and Espaço do Conhecimento; with the support of Lisbon City Council (Art Galleries Department) and of the National Museum of Ethnology; Lisbon: CML.

- Barcelos, Carina (2012) "The Carnival seen from outside, on video, at the Angra Museum"; reportage and interview with Rui Mourão; Diário Insular (Azorean newspaper); published on paper and online.

- Augusto, Humberta (2012) "Exhibition crosses anthropology and videoart"; reportage and interview with Rui Mourão; A União (Azorean newspaper); published on paper and online.

- Mourão, Rui; et al. (2011) Ouvertures d’Ateliers d’Artistes; catalogue of a collective exhibition; Marseille: Association Château de Servières.

- Albergaria, Gabriela; Araújo, Vasco; Bal, Mieke; Beerstecher, Daniel; Cera, Nuno; Gohlke, Gerrit; Lietti, Manuela; Lusitano, Maria; Mourão, Rui; Werner, Frank (2010) The Garden as a Mirror; catalogue of a collective exhibition in Goethe-Institut and Künstlerhaus Bethanien; Mourão, Rui (Coord.); with the support of Goethe-Institut; Lisbon and Berlin: Goethe-Institut.

- Agência Lusa (2010) "Rui Mourão exhibits videos in Berlin"; Correio da Manhã, nr. 11229 (Portuguese newspaper); published on paper.

- Cunha, Nuno (2010) "Visual Arts: Interview with Rui Mourão"; Notícias Sábado - Diário de Notícias, nr. 51453; and Jornal de Notícias, nr. 264/132 (Portuguese newspapers); published on paper.

- Domingos, Tiny; Mourão, Rui (2010) "Rui Mourão | Videoarbeiten | 2005 – 2010"; catalogue of Rui Mourão's exhibition in Rosalux; Berlin: Goethe-Institut.

- Fazenda, Maria do Mar; Lucena, Lourenço, Oliveira, Filipa (2009) Anteciparte – A selection of Portuguese up coming artists; collective catalogue that includes Rui Mourão's work; Lisbon: CML and Museu do Oriente.

- Ferro, Inês; Oliveira, Luísa Soares de (2009) Por Bem; catalogue of Rui Mourão's art work; with the support of National Palace of Sintra, IMC – Instituto dos Museus e da Conservação (Portuguese Institute of Museums and Conservation), and Portuguese Ministry of Culture; Sintra: MC.

- Serpa, Luís; Mourão, Rui; et al. (2009) Junho das Artes / Óbidos Arte Contemporânea; Serpa, Luís (Coord.); collective catalogue that includes Rui Mourão's work; with the support of the Óbidos City Council; Óbidos: CMO.

- Pomba, Susana (2009) Coup d’Art; about Rui Mourão's exhibition in CAPC; Público (Portuguese newspaper); published on paper.

- Guerreiro, António (2009) Coup d’Art; catalogue of Rui Mourão's exhibition, with the support of CAPC – Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra (Visual Arts Center of Coimbra); independent publication on paper.

- Barata, Hugo; Cavalheiro, Teresa; Dwier, Budd; Louro, João; Maria Thiele, Acácia; Mateus, Cláudia; Mourão, Rui; Saraiva, Catarina; Vasconcelos, Soraya; Vasilkov, Aleksander (2009) Voyeur Project View; collective catalogue; independent publication on paper.

- Mourão, Rui; et al. (2008) Video art and art & essay film in Portugal; collective catalogue that includes Rui Mourão's work; conception: Número - Arte e Cultura; with the support of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Portuguese Ministry of Culture and Direcção-Geral das Artes (Portuguese National Arts Institute); Lisbon: Número and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

- André Braz, Ivo; Guarda, Israel (2008) at/by/for/into/around THE HOUSE; catalogue of a collective exhibition in P28 and in Koh-i-noor that included Rui Mourão's artworks; with the support of Lund University (in Sweden); independent publication on paper.

- Mourão, Rui; et al. (2008) Pólvora Muse; catalogue of a collective exhibition in Fábrica da Pólvora; conception and publication: Clube Português Artes e Ideias (Portuguese Club of Arts and Ideas); Lisbon: CPAI.

- André Braz, Ivo (2008) A Vida Segue a Um; catalogue of Rui Mourão's exhibition in Museu Nacional de História Natural (National Museum of Natural History); independent publication on paper.

- Buckingham, Matthew; Kreuger, Anders; Melikian, Nathalie; Mourão, Rui; Sandquist, Gertrud; et al. (2008) Malmö Art Academy ’08; art students catalogue of Konsthögskolan i Malmö (Malmö Art Academy, in Sweden); Kreuger, Anders and Sandquist, Gertrud (Dir.); Malmö: Lund University.

- Mourão, Rui; et al. (2007) Jovens Criadores; catalogue with an annual selection of young Portuguese artists that includes Rui Mourão's work (video jury: Paulo Abreu, Rui Tendinha and Susana Martins); conception of Clube Português Artes e Ideias (Portuguese Club of Arts and Ideas); Lisbon: CPAI.

- Oliveira, Luísa Soares de (2007) "Open Space"; art critic about Rui Mourão's work at Público (Portuguese newspaper); published on paper.

- Ruivo, Ana (2007) "Casa de enganos"; art critic about Rui Mourão's work at Expresso (Portuguese newspaper); published on paper.

- Mar, Maria do (2007) Private Office; collective catalogue that includes Rui Mourão's work; independent publication on paper.

- Mourão, Rui; et al. (2006) Jovens Criadores; catalogue with an annual selection of young Portuguese artists that includes Rui Mourão's work; conception of Clube Português Artes e Ideias (Portuguese Club of Arts and Ideas); Lisbon: CPAI.