Scots artist to feature in Berlin Wall 30th anniversary celebrations

An interview with Scottish artist Margaret Hunter is to be beamed onto Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate as part of the celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
By Jane Bradley
Published 28th Oct 2019, 11:25 BST
Margaret Hunter moved to Berlin in 1985.Margaret Hunter moved to Berlin in 1985.
Margaret Hunter moved to Berlin in 1985.

Hunter’s memories of the reunification of Germany will also be among just seven contemporary witnesses featured in a book to mark the anniversary, published by Kulturprojekte Berlin, the official organisers of the celebrations.

Hunter, now 71, studied at Glasgow School of Art in the early 1980s. Seeing the work of German artist Georg Baselitz for the first time on an art school trip to Amsterdam, she moved to Berlin to study with him at the Hochschule der Kunste.

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She was living in Berlin at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, which saw the division between east and west Berlin torn down and marked the beginning of the reunification of Germany.

Hunter, whose work has been inspired by the division between east and west Germany, said: “For a long time the wall was very difficult to overcome in people’s minds. That’s what makes the 30th anniversary so interesting. It’s amazing to be part of it. To have experienced the tenth, the 20th and now this is fantastic.

Over the week of the 30th anniversary, the German capital will be transformed into a large open-air exhibition with over two hundred events at seven original sites of the ‘Peaceful Revolution’.