Marlene Dumas. ‘Miss Interpreted’. Miss Interpreted, Marlene Dumas [English Edition] (exhibition catalogue), Eindhoven: Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, 1992: p. 26-80
Marlene Dumas. ‘Het kunstwerk als misverstand’. Individu: Duiding, Verboden verbindingen + twijfelachtige Verbanden (exhibition catalogue), Antwerp: ICC, 1991
Marlene Dumas. ‘Why do I write (about Art)’. Kunst & Museumjournaal (English Edition), vol. 3, no. 4 (1992): p. 44-46 [originally written for the symposium Writing about Art, held in the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (30-11-1991 – 01-12-1991).]
Marlene Dumas. ‘The Origin of the Species’. Marlene Dumas: The Origin of the Species (exhibition catalogue), Munich: Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, 1990
Marlene Dumas. ‘Couples’. Couples (exhibition catalogue), Amsterdam: Museum Overholland, 1990: p. 1
Marlene Dumas. ‘De aarde is plat/The World is flat’. Over schilderen/On Painting, Amsterdam: De Balie, 1990: p. 12-13
Marlene Dumas. ‘The Art of Exhibiting: It Is Not ‘The Imaginary’ We Need Neither Is It ‘The Museum’ We Desire’. Metropolis M, no. 3 (January 1990): p. 16-17
Marlene Dumas. ‘Terminologies’. De Uitputting van de Muze, Amsterdam: W139, 1990: p. 16-25
Marlene Dumas. ‘Death as Model’. De Uitputting van de Muze, Amsterdam: W139, 1990: p. 16-25
Marlene Dumas. ‘Waiting Rooms (need TV)’. Kunst voor de Toekomst (special issue ‘Tekens van Verzet’), vol. 4, no. 1 (January 1989)
Marlene Dumas. ‘Die Rückkehr der Nicht-Toten’. Prospect 89: Eine internationale Ausstellung aktueller Kunst (exhibition catalogue), Frankfurt: Frankfurter Kunstverein, 1989
Marlene Dumas. ‘The Question of Human Pink’. The Question of Human Pink (exhibition catalogue), Bern: Kunsthalle Bern, 1989: p. 18, 28, 34, 48
Marlene Dumas. ‘The Painter kills the Living’. 6 Dutch Artists (exhibition catalogue), Edinburgh: Fruit Market Gallery, 1989
Marlene Dumas. ‘From One Dirty Place to Another’. Innodiging voor mooie tentoonstellingen + trio eenzaamheid, Amsterdam: Galerie Paul Andriesse, 1989: p. 40
Marlene Dumas. ‘The Tyranny of Reality and the Autonomy of Painting’. Jan Andriesse, Cologne: Galerie Maria Wilkens, 1989: p. 1-2
Marlene Dumas. ‘The Body Guard’. Kapriolen – Zeitgenössische Kunst aus den Niederlanden (exhibition catalogue), Munich: Kunstverein München, 1989: p. 57-59
Marlene Dumas. ‘Warning’. Introductie Blauwbaard club, Amsterdam, 1988
Marlene Dumas. ‘Naked Bodies’. Waiting (for meaning) (exhibition catalogue), Kiel/Schleswig Holstein: Kunsthalle zu Kiel & Schleswig Holsteinischer Kunstverein, 1988: p. 22-23
Marlene Dumas. ‘The Meaning of Drawing’. The Meaning of Drawing: drawings by ten Dutch Artists/A Priori tekenen (exhibition catalogue), The Hague/Amsterdam: Netherlands Office for fine Arts/Makkom, 1987: p. 46/143 [compilation of the texts ‘The Meaning of Drawing’, The Meaning of Drawing: drawings by ten Dutch Artists, 1986 and ‘The Surrealist Tradition’, A Priori tekenen, 1987]
Marlene Dumas. ‘Selling one’s Soul to the Devil’. Art from Europe (exhibition catalogue), London: The Tate Gallery, 1987: p. 26
Marlene Dumas. ‘Blinde Vlekken’. De Rijksacademie, vol. 1, no. 3 (November 1987): p. 13
Marlene Dumas. ‘No more Interviews’. Sweet Nothings: Notes and Texts by Marlene Dumas, Amsterdam: Uitgeverij De Balie/Galerie Paul Andriesse, 1998: p. 38 [initially handwritten and handed out during the show at Galerie Paul Andriesse, 1987]
Marlene Dumas. ‘Private versus the Public’. Art and Project/Galerie Paul Andriesse/Van Krimpen/The Living Room (exhibition catalogue), Amsterdam: Art and Project/Galerie Paul Andriesse/Van Krimpen/The Living Room, 1987: p. 8
Marlene Dumas. ‘The Intuition of Danger’. Innovation und Tradition / Vernieuwing en traditie (exhibition catalogue), Karlsruhe: Badischer Kunstverein, 1986: p. 79
Marlene Dumas. ‘Pornographic Tendency’. Zeven kunstenaars (exhibition catalogue), Leiden: Galerie Academisch Ziekenhuis Leiden, 1986: p. 10
Marlene Dumas. Fear of Babies. Amsterdam: De Expeditie, 1986
Marlene Dumas. ”n meisje vir alle geleenthede’. Het Moment, no. 3 (1986): p. 63-66
Marlene Dumas. ‘Nightmares of Beauty’. Erik Andriesse: schilderijen 1982-1987 (exhibition catalogue), Amsterdam: Galerie Paul Andriesse, 1987: p. 3
Marlene Dumas. ‘The Aim of my Work’. The Eyes of the Night Creatures (exhibition catalogue), Amsterdam: Galerie Paul Andriesse, 1985: [no pagination]
Marlene Dumas. ‘My best Works’. The Eyes of the Night Creatures (exhibition catalogue), Amsterdam: Galerie Paul Andriesse, 1985: [no pagination]
Marlene Dumas. ‘A Title’. The Eyes of the Night Creatures (exhibition catalogue), Amsterdam: Galerie Paul Andriesse, 1985: [no pagination]
Marlene Dumas. ‘The Plague Mentality’. René Daniëls, Marlene Dumas, Henk Visch (exhibition catalogue), Krefeld: Galerie Barbara Jandrig, 1985
Marlene Dumas. ‘The Eyes of the Night Creatures’. The Eyes of the Night Creatures (exhibition catalogue), Amsterdam: Galerie Paul Andriesse, 1985
Marlene Dumas. ‘Notities’. Fodor, vol. 4, no. 4 (July/August 1985): p. 38-39
Marlene Dumas. ‘2 taalnotities, Amsterdam 1985’. (ander werk), teksten van kunstenaars in Nederland, Arnhem: Akademie voor Beeldende Kunsten/kaAp, kunst actualiteiten Arnhem produkties, 1988: p. 33
Marlene Dumas. ‘Unsatisfied Desire and the untrustworthy Language of Art’. Private Symbol, Social Metaphor, 5th Sydney Biennale (exhibition catalogue), Sydney: Biennale and Gallery of New South Wales, 1984
Marlene Dumas. ‘On Words and Images’. Im Toten Winkel (exhibition catalogue), Hamburg: Kunstverein und Kunsthaus Hamburg, 1984: p. 49
Marlene Dumas. ‘Love Notes’. The Lava-Edge, Amsterdam/Reykjavik: Fodor/The Living Art Museum, 1984 [a selection of texts published in the artist book The Lava-Edge, 1984]
Marlene Dumas. ‘Statements’. Dutch Art + Architecture Today, no. 12 (December 1982): p. 14-19
Marlene Dumas. ‘Some Qualities I exhibit’. Junge Kunst aus den Niederlanden,Young art from the Netherlands, Form und/and Expression (exhibition catalogue), Basel: Sonderschau Kunstmesse ART 13’82, 1982: p. 40
Marlene Dumas. Introduction. Stedelijk Museum Agenda, 1978