Leo Felipe

Leo Felipe (Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1973) is a writer and curator. He holds a degree in Journalism from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and a Master’s Degree in Visual Arts from the same institution. Leo's research focuses on subcultures, the relation between art and rock, punk, counterculture in Brazil, the concept of the party, and experimental methods of writing, such as the cut-up. His work has been presented at international academic events, including the KISMIF Conference and Noize Critical Party (Porto, 2018), Tropical Underground Revolutions of Anthropology and Cinema (Frankfurt, 2018), II Historical Fictions Research Network Conference (London, 2017), Artists’ Publications: Revision of Multiples and Conceptual Photography circa 1970 (New York, 2016), and the 18th Conference of the Austrian Society of Art Historians (Vienna, 2015). He served as the director of the Galeria de Arte da Fundação Ecarta in Porto Alegre from 2011 to 2017 and was a curator at Pivô from 2019 to 2021. His book, 'A história universal do after' (nunc, 2019), was translated into Spanish and published by the Argentinian publisher Caja Negra in 2022. One of the book's chapters was featured in the #132 issue "Black Rave" of the e-flux journal. Currently based in São Paulo, he holds the position of director at Sé Galeria.