The Museum of Modern Art Carinthia in Klagenfurt sees itself as a lively platform for national and international positions in modern and contemporary art. In a total of 14 exhibition rooms with around 1,000 square meters of presentation space, multi-layered dialogues regularly arise between current artistic voices and significant works from the museum's own collections. Three to four temporary exhibitions per year form the programmatic center of the museum, combining solo and thematic exhibitions with presentations from the collection to create an exciting exhibition program. This is complemented by projects in the art space of the castle chapel, the permanent sculpture exhibition in the arcade, and temporary artistic interventions in the museum's historic courtyard.
In spring 2026, two very different perspectives on art will meet at the MMKK: the poetic-philosophical video art of the internationally active artist Regina Hübner and a selection of important works from the collection of the Province of Carinthia. While Hübner's exhibition "Dear ..." presents central works from her oeuvre as well as new productions, the collection presentation "fokus sammlung. MEISTERWERKE" brings together important positions in Carinthian painting of the 19th and 20th centuries.

The juxtaposition highlights the diversity of artistic expression, from historical masterpieces to contemporary, media-influenced imagery. Together, the two exhibitions offer a multifaceted view of art's past and present, underscoring the role of the Museum of Modern Art Carinthia as a dynamic forum for exchange between history, the present, and the artistic future.
The first exhibition focuses on Regina Hübner, an internationally active artist who was born in Villach and has lived and worked in Rome for many years. Her training took her from Graz to Carrara and then to the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, where she graduated in 1990. Since then, she has developed a multifaceted body of work spanning experimental photography, video, and performance, which has been shown in renowned institutions and at international festivals—such as the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, the FRAC in Marseille, the Mandel Center in Tel Aviv, and the National Gallery in Vilnius.
Under the title "Dear ...", the MMKK presents a concentrated overview of Hübner's artistic work. Her works revolve around fundamental questions of human existence: identity, transience, and the relationship of the individual to the community. In these works, humans appear both as unique subjects and as part of a complex social fabric. Relationships, communication, and forms of coexistence are addressed, as is the connection between nature and culture. The artist's personal experiences as a woman, daughter, and mother also flow into her works, lending them an intimate yet universal dimension.

Regina Hübner, ME-YOU-HER, 2023, photomontage, © Galatea Realacci

Hübner's art is characterized by the use of large-format video works, which she combines to create spatial installations. These works, which she herself describes as "ambientations," unfold their effect through the interplay of image, architecture, and atmosphere. Viewers enter poetically charged pictorial spaces in which symbolic motifs, slowed-down movements, and a carefully composed visual language become contemplative spaces of experience. Hübner's works are not narrative in the classical sense; rather, they open up fields of association in which memories, emotions, and personal interpretations can arise. It is precisely this openness that makes her works sensitive spaces for reflection on human existence in an increasingly complex world.
The exhibition at the MMKK brings together key works from her oeuvre with new works that have not yet been shown publicly. Some well-known installations have been newly adapted for the museum's rooms, enabling a specific encounter with the architecture of the building.
At the same time, the presentation "fokus sammlung. MEISTERWERKE" (focus collection. MASTERPIECES) is dedicated to another, but no less important, aspect of the museum's work: the care and communication of its own collection. Selected works from the art collection of the province of Carinthia are on display in eight of the fourteen exhibition rooms. The show brings together important positions in Carinthian painting of the 19th and 20th centuries, highlighting how strongly regional art history contributes to the cultural identity of the province.
Together, the two exhibitions open up an exciting dialogue between past and present: between historical masterpieces and an artistic practice that deals with existential questions of our time. The Museum of Modern Art Carinthia thus demonstrates once again how productive the exchange between regional tradition and international contemporary art can be.
March 12 to May 31, 2026
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