Marlene Dumas. ‘Het Onverantwoordelijke Gebaar – of ga terug naar waar jij vandaan komt’. Huizinga-lezing 2019, Diemen: Uitgeverij EW, 2019: p. 9-59
Marlene Dumas. ‘Jan Hoet 1936-2014’. Artforum (Summer 2014): p. 91
Marlene Dumas. ‘Non-traditional Relationships’. Manifesta 10: The European Biennial of Contemporary Art (exhibition catalogue), London: Koenig Books, 2014: p. 92
Marlene Dumas. ‘A Gothic Story. The Final Tale’. Marlene Dumas. Sweet Nothings. Notes and Texts 1982-2014, London: Koenig Books, 2014: p. 160
Marlene Dumas. ‘Natasja in Wonderland’. The Crying Light (exhibition catalogue), Dublin: Royal Hibernian Academy, 2013: p. [9]
Speech given by Marlene Dumas during the award ceremony of the Johannes Vermeer Prize 2012 on 29 October, Museum Het Prinsenhof, Delft, The Netherlands, 2012
Marlene Dumas. ‘An Artwork of the 19th century that was and stays important to me. Even Fairies can be ok’. Frieze Masters. Ideas from the Past in the art of the Present, London: Frieze Publishing, 2012: p. 87
Marlene Dumas. ‘Luc’. AnOther Magazine (18-10-2012)
Marlene Dumas. ‘Marlene Dumas over Mike Kelley’. NRC Handelsblad, 13-12-2012 [special edition of NRC Handelsblad on the occasion of Mike Kelley’s solo exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam]
Marlene Dumas. ‘Foto’s die van boeken houden en films die van foto’s houden / Photographs that like Books and Films that like Photographs’. Look. Ed! Images from the Archive of Ed van der Elsken selected by Marlene Dumas, Rineke Dijkstra and Marijke van Warmerdam, Amsterdam: Annet Gelink Gallery, 2012
Marlene Dumas. Venice is a beautiful place to be (playing together and against), April 2011
Marlene Dumas. ‘Koninginnen, sterren en schilders/Queens, Stars and Painters’. Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst (exhibition catalogue), Amsterdam: Stichting Koninklijk Paleis, 2011: p. 34-36, 40
Marlene Dumas. ‘De kleur van hoop. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, La Princesse de Broglie (The Portrait of Joséphine Eléonore Marie Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn, Princesse de Broglie)’. Nexus, no. 55 (2010): p. 33-38
Marlene Dumas. ‘Alice doesn’t live here anymore’. Alice Neel. Painted Truths (exhibition catalogue), Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2010
Marlene Dumas. ‘Against the Wall. Letter to David’. Against the Wall (exhibition catalogue), Amsterdam/Santa Fe: Idea Books Distribution/Radius Books, 2010: p. 49-55
Marlene Dumas. ‘Contra o Muro’. Contra o Muro (exhibition catalogue), Porto: Museu Serralves, 2010: p. 57
Marlene Dumas. ‘Two of a kind’. Contra o Muro (exhibition catalogue), Porto: Museu Serralves, 2010: p. 59
Marlene Dumas. ‘For Whom the Bell tolls’. Contra o Muro (exhibition catalogue), Porto: Museu Serralves, 2010: p. 80
Marlene Dumas. ‘De Derde Wereldoorlog/The Third World War’. Metropolis M, no. 6 (December-January (2010) 2009): p. 17-18
Marlene Dumas. ‘Measuring your own Grave’. Measuring your own Grave (exhibition catalogue), Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008: p. 194
Marlene Dumas. ‘Framing and Naming’. Measuring your own Grave (exhibition catalogue), Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008: p. 261
Marlene Dumas. ‘North Africa (Woman of Algiers)’. Measuring your own Grave (exhibition catalogue), Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008: p. 177
Marlene Dumas. ‘Beaches ain’t what they used to be’. Measuring your own Grave (exhibition catalogue), Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008: p. 34
Marlene Dumas. ‘Southern Comfort’. Measuring your own Grave (exhibition catalogue), Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008: p. 179
Marlene Dumas. ‘Homage to the Polaroid’. Measuring your own Grave (exhibition catalogue), Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008: p. 91
Marlene Dumas. ‘Expiring Dates ‘. Measuring your own Grave (exhibition catalogue), Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008: p. 179
Marlene Dumas. ‘On the drawings of Keren Cytter’. Keren Cytter (exhibition catalogue), Vienna: MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, 2007
Marlene Dumas, Ralf Rugoff. ‘On Photography and modern Life’. The Painting of Modern Life: 1960s to Now (exhibition catalogue), London: Hayward Gallery, 2007 [selected fragments from a conversation between Marlene Dumas and Ralf Rugoff]
Marlene Dumas. ‘Adult Entertainment or what do I do (when you are far away)’. Intimate Relations (exhibition catalogue), Amsterdam/Johannesburg: Roma Publications/Jacana Media, 2007: p. 79
Marlene Dumas. ‘Man Kind’. Man Kind (exhibition catalogue), Amsterdam: Galerie Paul Andriesse, 2006: p. 3-4
Marlene Dumas. ‘Melissa Gordon: Collateral Damage (or, Paintings of Pictures that Show a Painting isn’t a Picture)’. Wild at Heart, Amsterdam: Stichting Ateliers ’63, 2006: p. 39-45
Marlene Dumas. ‘And God said – I told you so’. Kitsch Unedited: Letters and Texts of Friends compiled by Jan Andriesse, Tilburg: De Pont Museum, 2006: p. 21-23
Marlene Dumas. ‘Tomorrow’. M+M Marlene Dumas + Marijke van Warmerdam (exhibition catalogue), Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2004
Marlene Dumas. ‘Pretty Boys’. Respect! Forms of Community: Contemporary Art from the Netherlands (exhibition catalogue), Amsterdam: Mondriaan Foundation, 2005
Marlene Dumas. ‘The Right to Be Silent’. Frieze, no. 80 (January/February 2004): p. 84-85
Marlene Dumas. ‘The Second Coming’. The Second Coming (exhibition catalogue), London: Frith Street Gallery, 2004
Marlene Dumas. ‘Immaculate’. Frieze, no. 80 (January/February 2004): p. 88-89
Marlene Dumas. ‘The Death of the Author’. Frieze, no. 80 (January/February 2004): p. 86-87
Marlene Dumas. ‘Suspect, Simplicity and About Heaven’. Marlene Dumas: Suspect (exhibition catalogue), Milan: Skira, 2003: p. 35, 46, 66, 77, 79
Marlene Dumas. ‘As good as it gets. Van Gogh is the One’. GoghModern: Vincent van Gogh and Contemporary Art, Amsterdam/Rotterdam: Van Gogh Museum/Stedelijk Museum/NAi Publishers, 2003
Marlene Dumas. ‘You know you are a Foreigner’. Early Works: De Ateliers 1998-2002 (exhibition catalogue), Amsterdam: Stichting Ateliers ’63, 2002: p. 21
Marlene Dumas. ‘Wake Up Call’. Early Works: De Ateliers 1998-2002 (exhibition catalogue), Amsterdam: Stichting Ateliers ’63, 2002: p. 20
Marlene Dumas. ‘Frank Stella: Notes on All is Fair in Love and War’. Marlene Dumas. Sweet Nothings. Notes and Texts 1982-2014, London: Koenig Books, 2014: p. 200 [written in 2001 on the occasion of the exhibition All is Fair in Love and War, New York, 2001, but at the time unpublished]
Marlene Dumas. ‘Topless Bars and Structural Skeletons’. Name no Names (exhibition catalogue), Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2001: p. 34-37
Marlene Dumas. ‘Name no Names’. Name no Names (exhibition catalogue), Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2001: p. 34-37
Marlene Dumas. ‘Never say Never or One Drawing too Many’. Marlene Dumas: One Hundred Models and Endless Rejects (exhibition catalogue), Boston/Ostfildern: Institute of Contemporary Art/Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001 [selected fragments from Marlene Dumas: One Hundred Models and Endless Rejects, 2001]
Marlene Dumas. ‘Live Acts. Silent Studios’. Strippinggirls: Anton Corbijn, Marlene Dumas (exhibition catalogue), Amsterdam: Stichting Actuele Kunstdocumentatie, 2000
Marlene Dumas. ‘A true Hedonist is hard to find’. Marlene Dumas: MD (exhibition catalogue), Antwerp/London/Høvikodden: MUKHA/Camden Arts Centre/Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, 1999
Marlene Dumas. ‘MD-light’. Marlene Dumas: MD (exhibition catalogue), Antwerp/London/Høvikodden: MUKHA/Camden Arts Centre/Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, 1999
Marlene Dumas. ‘Fame and Fortune’. Marlene Dumas, London: Phaidon, 1999: p. 138
Marlene Dumas. ‘Future Perspective, or why he’s not the Man they say he is’. Jan Andriesse (exhibition catalogue), Dordrecht: Dordrechts Museum, 2000 [written in 1999]
Marlene Dumas. ‘Do the right Thing’. Grey Areas: Representation, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary South African Art (exhibition catalogue), Rivonia-Johannesburg: Chalkham Hill Press, 1999: p. 129-131
Marlene Dumas. ‘Improper Relationships’. Marlene Dumas, London: Phaidon, 1999: p. 142
Marlene Dumas. ‘Accepting Painting for what it is’. A fruitful Incoherence, London: Iniva, 1998: p. 50
Marlene Dumas. ‘Women’. Sweet Nothings: Notes and Texts by Marlene Dumas, Amsterdam: Uitgeverij De Balie/Galerie Paul Andriesse, 1998 [written in 1997]
Marlene Dumas. ‘Valentines Day’. Sweet Nothings: Notes and Texts by Marlene Dumas, Amsterdam: Uitgeverij De Balie/Galerie Paul Andriesse, 1998: p. 136 [written in 1997]
Marlene Dumas. ‘The Drive-Inn’. Miss Interpreted (Marlene Dumas), Netherlands: MM Productions and The Humanistic Broadcast, 1997
Marlene Dumas. ‘Rejects and Reasons’. Auf dem Strich, Arbeiten zum Thema Prostitution (exhibition catalogue), Kiel: Kulturviertel in Sophienhof Kiel, 1997
Marlene Dumas. ‘First Flights Overseas’. >The Bread and Butter Stone, The Douglas Hyde Gallery on Memory, Dublin: Douglas Hyde Gallery, 1997: p. [no pagination]
Marlene Dumas. ‘As the World turns’. The Bread and Butter Stone, The Douglas Hyde Gallery on Memory, Dublin: Douglas Hyde Gallery, 1997: p. [no pagination]
Marlene Dumas. ‘Art and Prostitution’. Auf dem Strich, Arbeiten zum Thema Prostitution (exhibition catalogue), Kiel: Kulturviertel in Sophienhof Kiel, 1997
Marlene Dumas. ‘Always true’. Sweet Nothings: Notes and Texts by Marlene Dumas, Amsterdam: Uitgeverij De Balie/Galerie Paul Andriesse, 1998: p. 137 [written in 1997]
Marlene Dumas. ‘A united Europe’. Sweet Nothings: Notes and Texts by Marlene Dumas, Amsterdam: Uitgeverij De Balie/Galerie Paul Andriesse, 1998: p. 131 [written in 1997]
Marlene Dumas. ‘A nice Girl like you’. Portikus Frankfurt am Main 1987–1997, Frankfurt am Main: Portikus, 1997: p. 257
Marlene Dumas. ‘Youth and Other Demons’. Marlene Dumas, Youth and Other Demons (exhibition catalogue), Tokyo: Galery Koyanagi, 1996
Marlene Dumas. ‘International Biennales’. Manifesta (exhibition catalogue), Rotterdam: Foundation European Art Manifestation, 1996: p. 7-11
Marlene Dumas. ‘The perfect Lover, The absent Lover and the Daughter’. Marlene Dumas (exhibition catalogue), London: Tate Gallery London, 1996
Marlene Dumas. ‘The wrong Questions ‘. The Intellectual Conscience of Art (L & B/Lier en Boog), vol. 11 (1996): p. 28
Marlene Dumas. ‘Pin-Up’. Pin-Up (exhibition catalogue), Tienen: Stedelijk Museum Het Toreke, 1996
Marlene Dumas. ‘The 7 Year Itch’. Art Gallery Exhibiting: The Gallery as a Vehicle for Art, Amsterdam: Galerie Paul Andriesse/Uitgeverij de Balie, 1996: p. 177
Marlene Dumas. ‘Meesterwerken en Miss Wereld’. Openbaar Kunstbezit/Kunstschrift, vol. 40, no. 6 (November/December 1996): p. 28-29
Marlene Dumas. ‘A brush with Genius: Marlene Dumas on Goya’s The Fates’. The Guardian, 04-06-1996: p. 10
Marlene Dumas. ‘Deadlines and Airmiles’. Sweet Nothings: Notes and Texts by Marlene Dumas, Amsterdam: Uitgeverij De Balie/Galerie Paul Andriesse, 1998 [written for a special issue of Parachute (Fall 1995) on the theme of transit]
Marlene Dumas. ‘Buiten Beskerming van die Wet’. Africus. Johannesburg Biennale (exhibition catalogue), Johannesburg: Johannesburg Biennale, 1995: p. 186
Marlene Dumas. ‘Three Maria’s are better than One’. Dumas, Roosen, Van Warmerdam (exhibition catalogue), Venice, 1995
Marlene Dumas. ‘Bacon and Dumas, or the Discomfort of being ‘coupled’ ‘. Marlene Dumas/Francis Bacon (exhibition catalogue), Malmö/Milan: Malmö Konsthall/Castello di Rivoli, 1995: p. 27-39
Marlene Dumas. ‘The next Generation’. Dutch Biennale Bulletin, Johannesburg: Africus, Johannesburg Biennale, 1995
Marlene Dumas. ‘A Painting needs a Wall to object to’. Sweet Nothings: Notes and Texts by Marlene Dumas, Amsterdam: Uitgeverij De Balie/Galerie Paul Andriesse, 1998: p. 102-103 [quote from 1995]
Marlene Dumas. ‘Models’. Marlene Dumas: Models (exhibition catalogue), Stuttgart: Oktagon, 1995: p. passim
Marlene Dumas. ‘Jesus, the perfect Lover’. 4 x 1 im Albertinum, Marlene Dumas, Günther Fruhtrunk, Louise Lawler, Marcel Rodenbach (exhibition catalogue), Dresden: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, 1994
Marlene Dumas. ‘Home is where the Heart is’. Du concept à l’image: Art Pays Bas au XXème Siegle (exhibition catalogue), Paris: Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1994
Marlene Dumas. ‘Lovesick’. Chlorosis – Marlene Dumas (exhibition catalogue), Dublin: The Douglas Hyde Gallery, 1994: p. 8
Marlene Dumas. ‘Dutch Art?’. Sweet Nothings: Notes and Texts by Marlene Dumas, Amsterdam: Uitgeverij De Balie/Galerie Paul Andriesse, 1998 [written in 1994 for a panel discussion on Dutch art held during the exhibition Du concept à l’image, Art des Pays Bas au XXème Siècle, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1994]
Marlene Dumas. ‘Not from Here (I)’. Sweet Nothings: Notes and Texts by Marlene Dumas, Amsterdam: Uitgeverij De Balie/Galerie Paul Andriesse, 1998 [written in 1994 for the show Not from Here in Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, 1994]
Marlene Dumas. ‘Not from Here (II)’. Guia Mensual de las Artes, no. 13 (1994): p. 1-2
Marlene Dumas. ‘The Hatred of Others’. Dialogue with the Other (exhibition catalogue), Odense: Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, 1994: p. 62
Marlene Dumas. ‘The beginning of Love Stories and the End of cultural Privacy’. Sweet Nothings: Notes and Texts by Marlene Dumas, Amsterdam: Uitgeverij De Balie/Galerie Paul Andriesse, 1998 [written in 1994 for the catalogue of the show Cocido y Crudo by Dan Cameron, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 1994-1995]
Marlene Dumas. ‘Women and painting’. Parkett. Cherchez la Femme Peintre! A Parkett Inquiry, vol. 37 (1993): p. 140
Marlene Dumas. ‘To Life’. Über-Leben (exhibition catalogue), Bonn: Bonner Kunstverein, 1993: p. 72
Marlene Dumas. ‘The Blonde, the Brunette and the Black Woman’. Der zerbrochene Spiegel: Positionen our Malerei (exhibition catalogue), Vienna: Kunsthalle Wien, 1993: p. 154-155
Marlene Dumas. ‘It’s easy as 1, 2, 3 ‘. Parkett, no. 38 (December 1993): p. 123 [first section page 123]
Marlene Dumas. ‘How blue can a white Man get?’. Parkett, no. 38 (December 1993): p. 123 [last section p. 123]
Marlene Dumas. ‘Drawings and the People who look at them’. Fön, no. 3 (July/August 1993): p. 2
Marlene Dumas. ‘Female’. The 21st Century: Into the Future with Paracelsus/Das 21. Jahrhundert: Mit Paracelsus in die Zukunft (exhibition catalogue), Basel: Kunsthalle Basel, 1993: p. 124
Marlene Dumas. ‘Dead Artists’. Journal zur Ausstellung, Der Zerbrochenen Spiegel, Positionen zur Malerei (exhibition catalogue), Vienna: Kunsthalle Wien, 1993: p. 10
Marlene Dumas. ‘Blind Dates and drawn Curtains’. Marlene Dumas (exhibition catalogue), Philadelphia: Goldie Paley Gallery/Moore College of Art and Design, 1993
Marlene Dumas. ‘Give the People what they want’. De Witte Raaf, no. 42 (March/April 1993): p. 10
Marlene Dumas. ‘De muze is uitgeput’. De Uitputting van de Muze, Amsterdam: W139, 1990: p. 16-25
Marlene Dumas. ‘My Thoughts on big Shows’. Documenta IX (Vol. 2 A-K) (exhibition catalogue), Stuttgart/New York: Edition Cantz/Harry N. Abrams, 1992: p. 140
Marlene Dumas. ‘My Brain’. Brain, Internal affairs: encyclopedie van het AHHA moment (exhibition catalogue), Gorinchem: Beatrixziekenhuis, 1992