Catalogues / Critical texts

Reading the “Present Time” as Queer Feminist Refuge in Lien Botha’s Eco-Apocalypse
Leana van der Merwe, UNISA Journal of Literary Studies, Volume 42/2026

In Afterland
Karen Press, 2025

Notes on In Afterland
Raymond Smith, 2025

After Nature by Lien Botha and Jaco van Schalkwyk: An interconnected offering
Vernon Head, LitNet, 20.09.2023

Die kartering van ‘n distopiese Suid-Afrika in Lien Botha se Wonderboom (2015)
Carmi Britz, April 2022

Essay by Eben Venter : Between words and seeing – on Lien Botha’s annotated photographs
Lost in Translation, Barnard, April 2021

Botha curates ‘Sculpture on the Cliffs’ for Hermanus FynArts 2017
FynArts 2017

Catalogue Les Revenants
MC2a, Bordeaux, June 2017

Yonder
Barnard Gallery 2014

Beyond what one can see
Virginia MacKenny, Yonder catalogue, March 2014

Travelling with Borges and Baudelaire through Botha’s worn worlds
Sonja Loots, Yonder catalogue, March 2014

Crossing Boundaries: Contemporary Art and Artists from South Africa
Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, 2011, Jochen Sokoly, Melvyn Minnaar, Riason Naidoo

Die beeld se gedagtes: ‘n alternatiewe benadering tot die voorstellingsfunksie van die fotobeeld
Aletta Dorfling, 2010

Travelling Leica : Photographic Resonance Across Continents. Curiosity of the Familiar. Seminar presented during the exhibition: Juggling with the familiar II (work in progress)
September 1 – December 18, 2010

The Unhistorical History of Lien Botha’s Parrot Jungle
Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, 2009

Music of Silence – the art of Lien Botha
Ashraf Jamal, Taxi 005/David Krut Publishing, 2002