Margaret Hunter (GB)

painting, sculpture

“Margaret Hunter’s art can be interpreted as an examination of human existence, with the superficial and what lies beneath it, with separations, divisions and reconciliations, transitions and transformations – with the whole spectrum of identities. The search for the female being one with herself finds its clearest expression in the painting “Dance” (2004).” © Christoph Tannert (April 2021, UNMASKED #1)

artistic position

In 2019 Margaret Hunter’s work on the Berlin Wall, as a “witness of the time”, was part of the 30th anniversary celebrations organized by Kulturprojekte Berlin. It was shown alongside photographs and 3D film projections at the Brandenburg Gate and in the East Side Gallery. Her story was one of seven in the › BOOK that accompanies and documents the 30th anniversary celebrations.

“The figures in Margaret Hunter‘s paintings combine the elemental simplicity of primitive art with the movement and psychological realism of Western figures. Women at different stages of life, they are invested with significance, expressing internalised emotions. They are symbolic, but never only that, always grounded in the real world.Her wood sculptures – she makes the early cuts with an electric chainsaw – are robust and thoughtful, again combining the totemic presence of tribal statues with a more western sensibility, entering a dialogue with the artists who have worked this field before her. Some of her sculptures have cutaway sections at their core where something valuable and secret is lodged, or have marks on their surface like identity scarification practised by African tribes.”

Susan Mansfield, THE SCOTSMAN 2017

Exhibitions in aquabitArt

2021 › UNMASKED #1, Group exhibition, aquabitArt gallery Berlin

2020 › PAPER REALITY, Group exhibition, aquabitArt gallery Berlin

2020 › 11 years aquabitArt in Auguststrasse 35, ONLINE Group exhibition

2014 “re-inventions“, aquabitArt Gallery Berlin

2014 JUST FAIR, Group exhibition, aquabitArt Gallery Berlin

2012 “form follows-fiction“, Group exhibition, aquabitArt Gallery Berlin

2011 “reSTATEMENT” Installation, drawings, sculpture and painting. aquabitArt Gallery Berlin

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EXHIBITIONS (Selection)

2020 PAPER REALITY, aquabitArt Galerie Berlin
2020 11 years aquabitArt in Auguststrasse 35, ONLINE
2014 “re-inventions”, aquabitArt Gallery Berlin
2013 “Stepping Places”, Art First, London
2013 “Ports of call”, Galeria de SA TARONJA, Andratx
2012 “Skulptur – Werk – Raum” 23 Berliner Positionen. Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin
2011 “reSTATEMENT” Installation Zeichnungen, Sculptur & Malerei. aquabitArt Gallery Berlin
2012 Compendium II, Christmas Exhibition (Group), Art First, London
2011 Autumn Exhibition, Moncrieff-Bray Gallery (Group), Pulborough, England
2010 The 184th RSA Annual Exhibition, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland (G) Kat.
2009 Awaiting, Art First, London (E)
2008 Attachments, Galerie Wichtendahl, Berlin (E)
2006 Bunch of Person, Art First, London (E) Kat.engl./dt.
2006 Malerei-Skulpturen, Galerie Wichtendahl, Berlin
2005 Blue Hall Marktplatz Europa, Kunsthalle Arnstadt
2005 Sektor Panzerhalle, Atelierhaus Panzerhalle, Gross Glienicke, Brandenburg (G) Kat.dt.
2004 Intonations Art First, London (E)
2004 Thinking Through the Body, Umweltbundesamt Galerie, Berlin (E)
2002/3 Bodies of Substance, Margaret Hunter, Azade Köker, Ping Qiu; Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh 2002/3 University, Schottland und Galerie M. Marzahn, Berlin (G) Kat.dt/engl.
2002 Natural Adaptations, Art First, New York USA (E)
2002 Bodies of Substance (zusammen mit Azade Köker und Ping Qui), Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, Schottland (G) Kat.dt./engl.
2001 Holding Together, Paisley Museum & Art Galleries, Paisley, Schottland (E)
2001 Intercessions, Collins Gallery, Strathclyde University, Glasgow (E) Kat.engl.
2000 Connections, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh (G) Kat.engl.
1998-2007 London Contemporary Art Fair mit GalleryArt First, London
1998 Points of Contact/Tangents, International Cultural Centre, Cracow, Polen (E) Kat. poln.,dt.,engl.
1998 7 Dones amb Kunstmann, Galeria D’ ART Joanna Kunstmann, Santanyi, Mallorca, Spanien (G)
1998 Back to Nyk, Baumert-Hoffman-Hunter, Goethe Institut, Helsinki, und Kunsthalle, Vassa, Finland
1997 Repercussions: German Identities, Elastic Borders, International Music Festival, Cheltenham, GB
1997 Auslandische Kunstlerinnen in Berlin, Rotes Rathaus, Alexander Platz, Berlin
1995-1996 Brought to Book, Wanderausstellung, Collins Gallery, Strathclyde University, Glasgow;
Rochdale Art Gallery, Rochdale; Bonhoga Art Gallery, Shetland

Public collections

Berliner Hypo-Pfandbrief Bank AG, Berlin
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Strathclyde University, Glasgow
Marienstift Arnstadt, Arnstadt, Deutschland
St George’s Hospital Trust, London
Scottish Arts Council, Schottland
Graphothek Kunstamt, Charlottenburg, Berlin
Paisley Museum & Art Galleries, Paisley, Schottland
Städtische Kunstsammlung Görlitz, Deutschland
Niederschlesische Sparkasse, Görlitz, Deutschland
Fife Town Council, Schottland
Robert Fleming & Co. Merchant Bankers, London
Gemeinschafts Krankenhaus Havelhöhe, Berlin
Harry & Margery Boswell Art Collection, Edinburgh
Evangelische Gesundbrunnen e.V. Steinbach, Deutschland
Hengeler Mueller Weitzel Wirtz, Berlin
The Fleming Wyfold Art Collection, London