• 2020 von Veh, K. “Where Have All the Young Men Gone?” In K. von Veh (Ed.). Paul Emmanuel. Johannesburg: WITS Art Museum. pp. 30-43.
• 2019 von Veh, K. “Feminism as Activism in Contemporary South African Art.” In M. Buszek and H. Robinson (Eds.). A Companion to Feminist Art. Wiley Blackwell.
• 2017 von Veh, K. “Unsanctioned: The inner city interventions of Julie Lovelace.” In K. Miller and B. Schmahmann (Eds.) Bronze Warriors and Plastic Presidents: Public Art in South Africa, 1999-2015. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp.240-264.
• 2017 von Veh, K. “The Artist as Collector” in Jaco van Schalkwyk: Arium. Cape Town: Barnard Gallery. 40-47.
• 2016 von Veh, K. “Who is Mary Magdalene?” In Majak Bredell’s Many Magdalenes Exhibition Catalogue, pp. 4-9.
• 2015 von Veh, K. “South African Art in a Time of Democracy.” In The Album of the 6th Beijing International Art Biennale, China. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, pp. 357-381.
• 2015 von Veh, K. “The Role of Art in Human Rights.” In Art of Human Rights Catalogue. Durban: Durban University of Technology. p.24.
• 2014 von Veh, K. Deconstructing Dogma: an exhibition of transgressive Christian iconography in South African art. Exhibition catalogue. Johannesburg: University of Johannesburg.
• 2013 von Veh, K. “Vindicating the Vilified: Majak Bredell’s celebration of lost lives.” Roll Call. Catalogue. pp.4-7.
• 2012 von Veh, K. “Life, Loss and Transience in the work of Diane Victor.” Diane Victor: Burning the Candle at Both Ends. Johannesburg: David Krut. pp.5-78.
• 2011 von Veh, K. “Faith or expediency / religion or art?: A consideration of contemporary transgressive religious images.” In F. Rankin-Smith (ed.) Figuring Faith: Images of Faith in Africa. Johannesburg: Fourthwall Books. pp.174-186.
• 2009 von Veh, K. “Saints and Sinners: Re-Evaluating gendered power bases entrenched by religious imagery.” In A.A. du Preez (ed.) Taking a Hard Look: Gender and Visual Culture. Newcastle on Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp.47-70.
• 2009 von Veh, K. “Black Madonnas and Other Alternatives: an investigation of the goddess tradition in Majak Bredell’s art.” Majak Bredell: 2 Exhibitions. Catalogue. pp.4-7.
• 2008 von Veh, K. “Gothic Visions: Violence, Religion and Catharsis in Diane Victor’s Drawings.” In Rankin, E & von Veh K. Taxi 013 Diane Victor. Johannesburg: David Krut Publishers. pp.50-94.
Recent Journal Articles:
• 2020 “Classical Mythology as Satire: The Realities of a ‘New’ South Africa in Diane Victor’s Birth of a Nation Series.” IKON 13: Journal of Iconographic Studies. (The Afterlife of Antiquity).Vol.13. June 2020. pp. 383-392.
• 2020 “The material of mourning: How Paul Emmanuel’s series of The Lost Men function as counter-memorials.” Image & Text. Vol 34. (accepted and in press, due out Nov 2020).
• 2019 “The Pain of Martyrdom: Diane Victor’s Ghostly Victims” IKON 12: Journal of Iconographic Studies. Vol.12. June 2019. pp.259-268.
• 2019 “The Politics of Memory in South African Art.” De Arte 54.1: pp.3-24. www.tandfonline.com/rdat20 Volume 54 | Number 1 | 2019 | pp. 3–24 https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00043389.2018.1464732 ISSN 2471-4100 (Online), ISSN 0004-3389 (Print) © Unisa Press 2019.
• 2018 “Revisiting Religion: Iconoclasm as Renewal in Post-Apartheid South Africa” IKON 11: Journal of Iconographic Studies, Vol 11. June 2018. pp. 205-214.
• 2017 “Textual Textiles: Gender and Political Parodies in the work of Lawrence Lemaoana.” Textile: Cloth and Culture. Vol.15, No.4. pp. 442-460.
• 2017 “The Role of Beauty and Perfection in Marian Iconography: Contemporary responses to controversial images of the Virgin Mary by Chris Ofili and Diane Victor.” IKON
10: Journal of Iconographic Studies. Vol.10. June 2017. pp.359-368.
• 2016 “Contemporary Iconoclasm in SA: Transgressive Images of Madonna and Christ in response to social politics.” IKON 9: Journal of Iconographic Studies. Vol.9. June 2016.
pp.355-362.
• 2015 “Unsanctioned: The Ceramic Artworks of Julie Lovelace.” Ceramics: Art and Perception. No.102. December 2015. pp. 50-55.
• 2015 “Deconstructing Religion through Art: Wim Botha’s Images of Christ.” IKON 8: Journal of Iconographic Studies. Vol.8. June 2015. pp.181-192.
• 2014 “Deconstructing Dogma: Transgressive Religious Iconography in South African Art.” De Arte 89. June 2014. pp.39-63.
• 2013 “White/ Black/ Grey Areas: Reflections on Transition in South African Art.” Artes Magazine. 25 November 2013. [O] Available: http://www.artesmagazine.com/2013/12/whiteblack-grey-areas-reflections-on-transition-in-south-african-art/
• 2013 “Post-apartheid masculinity reviewed through the lens of Christian iconography: The work of Conrad Botes and Lawrence Lemaoana.” Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research. Vol.39. no.2. 2013. pp.271-291.
• 2012 “Diane Victor, Tracey Rose, and the Gender Politics of Christian Imagery.” African Arts. Winter 2012.Vol.45. no.4. pp.22-33.
• 2012 “The intersection of Christianity and Politics in South African art: a comparative analysis of selected images since 1960, with emphasis on the post-apartheid era.” De Arte 85. 2012. pp.5-25.
• 2012 “How to make a national resource into a global treasure: Paul Weinberg and the UCT Visual Archives.” De Arte 85. 2012. pp.73-79.
Recent Conference Papers:
• 2019 “Interrogating the ongoing abuse of women in South Africa through resistance art.” A paper presented at the 42nd AFSAAP Annual Conference held at St. Margaret’s College, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zeland. November 26-27, 2019.
• 2019 “The Anti-war memorials of Paul Emmanuel” A paper presented at Material Narratives: Representations of public and private histories in cloth, 18 – 20 November 2019 at the offices of the South African Research Chair in South African Art and Visual Culture, University of Johannesburg.
• 2019 “Diane Victor’s Smoky Spirits: Femicide and violence towards women in South Africa.” A paper presented at the 34th Annual SAVAH conference, Speaking with ghosts: Hauntology, memory, nostalgia and other ways of engaging with past/present/future. The Faculty of Informatics and Design, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 12-13 September 2019.
• 2019 “Classical Mythology as Satire: the realities of a ‘new’ South Africa in DianVictor’s Birth of a Nation”. A paper presented at the 13th International Conference of IKON titled: Afterlife of Antiquity – Case Studies and New Perspectives in Iconology. Held at the center for Iconographic Studies, Rijeka University, Croatia, 29-31 May 2019.
• 2019 “Decolonising Art History in a South African University”. A paper presented as part of a workshop on Decolonising the Curriculum: creative and practical strategies. At the AAH Annual Conference at Brighton University, UK, from 4-6 April 2019.
• 2019 “Interrogating post-apartheid women’s identity in Diane Victor’s Which Hunt.” A paper presented in the panel “Gender Politics and Identities in South African Art” as part of the conference titled Identities: 19th Annual Africa Conference. Held at the University of Texas at Austin from March 29-31 2019.
• 2018 Transitional Politics and the Fragility of Memory in South African Art. A paper presented at the AFSAAP Conference: Africa in Transition: Governance, Society and Culture. Held at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia from 21-23 November 2018.
• 2018 Transition in South African Art seen through the lens of Christian Iconography. A paper presented at the ASAUK Conference held at the University of Birmingham, 11- 13 September 2018.
• 2018 Revisiting Religion: Iconoclasm as renewal in post-apartheid South Africa. A paper presented at the annual SAVAH Conference: Troubling Legacies. Hosted by the Department of Visual Arts at Stellenbosch University, 4-6 July 2018.
• 2018 Contemporary Martyrdom in Diane Victor’s No Country for Old Women. A paper presented at the Twelfth International Conference of Iconographic Studies: The Iconography of Pain. Held at the center for Iconographic Studies, Rijeka University, Croatia, 31 May-1 June 2018.
• 2017 Public lecture presented at Hartford University, USA. 8 Feb 2017: The aftermath of apartheid in South African art.
• 2017 Public lecture on: The ambivalent trajectory of Feminist art in South Africa presented at Macalester College, Minnesota, USA. 10 Feb 2017.
• 2017 Undermining hegemonic masculinity in South Africa: a discussion of works by Lawrence Lemaoana. A paper presented in the panel: New perspectives on feminism and gender studies – South Africa and Beyond. In the ACASA Triennial Conference, Accra, Ghana. 8-13 August 2017.
• 2017 Iconoclasm as Renewal in South African Art. A paper delivered at the Eleventh International Conference of Iconographic Studies: Iconoclasm and Iconophilia. Held at the center for Iconographic Studies, Rijeka University, Croatia, June 1 – 3 2017.
• 2016 Moving the boundaries through Art: Diane Victor’s critical response to gendered violence in South Africa. A paper delivered in the Literature, Culture and the Arts session of the 39th AFSAAP Annual Conference, Africa: Moving the Boundaries, held at the University of Western Australia, Perth, 5-7 December 2016.
• 2016 Textual Textiles: Gender and Political Parodies in the work of Lawrence Lemaoana. A Paper delivered in Intertextual Textiles: Parodies and Quotations in Cloth. Conference held at the SARChi venue, UJ, 30 November to 2 December 2016.
• 2016 The evolution of Feminism in the work of Diane Victor. A paper delivered in session 10: Gendered Practices, rubric 1: Globalising gender studies, feminism and queer theory as part of the 34th Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art: CIHA 2016, held in Beijing, China, September 15-21, 2016.
• 2016 The role of Beauty and Perfection in Marian iconography – Contemporary responses to controversial images of The Virgin Mary by Chris Ofili and Diane Victor. A paper delivered at the Tenth International Conference of Iconographic Studies: Marian Iconography East and West. Held at the centre for Iconographic Studies, Rijeka University, Croatia, June 2 – 4 2016.
• 2016 Questions raised by the EESA Project: “Between Democracies 1989–2014: Remembering, Narrating, and Re-imagining the Past in Eastern and Central Europe and Southern Africa” (EESA). A presentation and roundtable discussion held at the CAA 104th Annual Conference held in Washington DC from 3 – 6 February 2016.
• 2015 “Christian imagery as a reflection of transforming politics in South African Art.” A paper presented at Twenty-First Century Tensions and Transformations, the 38th Annual AFSAAP (African Studies Association of Australia and the Pacific) Conference held in Melbourne from 28th-30th October 2015.
• 2015 “South African Art in a Time of Democracy.” A paper presented at the International Symposium of the Sixth Beijing International Art Biennale, held in the Beijing International Hotel, China, on 25th Sept 2015.
• 2015 “The Politics of Memory in South African Art.” Presented at: Power and Visual Culture, the 30th Annual SAVAH Conference held at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, Pietermaritzburg from 10-12 September 2015.
• 2015 “Christian Iconography as a vehicle for political commentary in South African art.” A paper presented at the Sixth European Conference on African Studies (ECAS-6) held in Paris 8-10 July 2015 at the Sorbonne and at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE).
• 2015 Invited Speaker: “Picturing language: The work of Willem Boshoff.” A paper presented at the First International Symposium: Forum of Eastern Cultures in the 21st Century. Held in Beijing, China at Peking University, 6-8 June 2015.
• 2015 “Contemporary Iconoclasm in South Africa: transgressive images of the Madonna and Christ in response to social politics.” A paper presented at Icons and Iconology. The Ninth International Conference of Iconographic Studies, held at the Center for Iconographic Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka from 4-6 June 2015.
• 2015 “The Politics of Memory in South African art.” A paper presented at Between democracies 1989-2014: Remembering, narrating and reimagining the past in Eastern and Central Europe and South Africa. Conference held at University of Johannesburg, 13-15 March 2015.
• 2014 Public lecture presented at the Dom umenia/Kunsthalle Bratislava on Wednesday 11 June 2014 at 6.30pm. Titled: Deconstructing Dogma: an exhibition of transgressive Christian iconography in South African art.
• 2014 “Contemporary iconoclasm in South African art.” A paper presented at the 29th Annual SAVAH Conference: Images and Media, held at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, 3 – 5 July, 2014.
• 2014 Invited speaker: “Deconstructing Religion through Art?: Wim Botha’s images of Christ.” Paper presented at the Eighth International Conference of Iconographic Studies: Christian Iconography and Modern and Contemporary Art. Held at the University of Rijeka, Croatia, 03 – 06 June, 2014
• 2014 “The Sacred as Secular: Responses to transgressive Christian imagery in a South African context.” A paper delivered in the panel “Controversial Visual Culture in Africa: The politics of displeasure and censorship” at the 16th ACASA Triennial Symposium on African art. Held at the Brooklyn Museum, New York,19-22 March 2014.
– 2013 Congress Address (invited speaker): “White/ Black/ Grey Areas: Reflections on Transition in South African Art.” Delivered at White Places, Black Holes, the 46th AICA (International Art Critics Association) International Congress. Košice / Bratislava, 24-27 September 2013.
• 2013 “The How and Why of Responding to social Injustice in South African Art Now.” A paper delivered at Visual Arts and Art History Now: How? What? Why? The 28th Annual Conference of the South African Visual Arts Historians, held at Michaelis, Cape Town, from 5-8 September 2013.
• 2012 “Post-apartheid masculinity reviewed through the lens of Christian iconography: the work of Conrad Botes and Lawrence Lemaoana.” A paper presented at Work/Force: South African Masculinities in the Media. Held at Stellenbosch University. 13-14 September 2012.
• 2012 “The Virgin Mary as a feminist icon in the work of Diane Victor.” A paper delivered in section 16 (the Gendered Object) of the CIHA Congress 2012: The Challenge of the Object. Held in Nuremberg, 15-20 July 2012.
• 2012 “Interpretations of Biblical sacrifice in dialogue with contemporary South African life.” A paper delivered at Visual Dialogues: South Africa in conversation. A conference organised by the South African Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH) and held at UNISA from 5-7 July 2012.
Public lectures / speeches:
• 2019 Public lecture on: The Politics of Memory in South African Art. Presented at Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, New Zealand, 28 November 2019.
• 2017 Public lecture presented at Hartford University, USA. 8 Feb 2017: The aftermath of apartheid in South African art.
• 2017 Public lecture on: The ambivalent trajectory of Feminist art in South Africa, presented at Macalester College, Minnesota, USA.10 Feb 2017.
• 2017 Opening of “Arium” an Exhibition of work by Jaco van Schalkwyk at the Barnard Gallery in Cape Town on 22 August 2017.
• 2016 Exhibition opening speech: Majak Bredell’s Many Magdalenes. UJ Art Gallery 10 August 2016.
• 2014 Public lecture presented at the Dom umenia/Kunsthalle Bratislava on Wednesday 11 June 2014 at 6.30pm. Titled: Deconstructing Dogma: an exhibition of transgressive Christian iconography in South African art.
• 2013 Exhibition opening: Majak Bredell’s Roll Call. March 2013 at the University of Johannesburg Art Gallery.
Curatorial Production:
• 2019 Curated Arium: the work of Jaco van Schalkwyk. 13 June – 10 July 2019. Gerard Sekoto Gallery at the Alliance Francaise.
• 2015 Co-curated: South African Art in a Time of Democracy. A special exhibition to showcase contemporary South African Art at the Sixth Beijing Biennale, China, from 23 September to 17th October 2015.
• 2015 Co-curated: Between Democracies 1989-2015: Commemoration and Memory. An exhibition including 50 artists from Eastern and Central Europe and South Africa held at Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, from 3-30 September 2015.
• 2014 Curated: Deconstructing Dogma: An Exhibition of Transgressive Christian Iconography in South African Art. Held at the University of Johannesburg Art Gallery from 6-29 May 2014.
