I observe nature and live in relation to others. Questions alter in concepts, inspiration is fundamental.
If I see the image, it is like I have got a possible answer and I love to comunicate it.
I was born from the love between my mother and my father, Ulrich Gerhard, born in Leipzig, and Edeltraud, born in Villach. They both were capable to express entusiasm, loving nature and art.
I grew up in a beautiful, romantic garden, going by woods, climbing on the top of trees, finding many four-leaf-clovers and having first contacts with the world of arts. The snow and the far horizon, seen from mountain peaks, impressed me deeply.
Since then I love the nature, the humans, the sense of aesthetic and uncompromising truth of life.
Questions about being and opposite views connected to the relation with what I am not inspire me.
If I find the image, it is, if I have got an anwser.
It makes me deeply happy, if other persons identify, get emotioned and share with what I communicate, reporting that autobiographical contents can have general values and empathy happens between individuals.
Keeping my eyes open, I still find four-leafe clovers.
Born in Austria, lives in Villach (A) and Rome (I).
Awarded with The Cultural Prize and The Decoration of Honour in Gold to the City of Villach. Fellow at IMéRA Institute for Advanced Study, Aix-Marseille University.
Main exhibitions at Meno Parkas Gallery, Austrian Cultural Forum Rome, KAUNAS 2022 European Cultural Capital, VIDEOFORMES Hybrid and Digital Arts, MANIFESTA 13 The European Nomadic Biennial, Nuit Blanche Paris, Dinzlschloss Villach, MMKK Museum of Modern Art Carinthia, change + partner contemporary art Rome, MLAC Museo Laboratorio Arte Contemporanea Università La Sapienza Roma, La Notte Bianca Roma, a.o. Numerous participations and festivals.
Texts on her work by R. Annecchini, S. Lux, P. Mania, D. Mattis, A. Rohsmann, D. Scudero, G. Soucheyre, a.o., portraits at ORF Austrian Public Television and Radio, Turbulences Video, Die Bruecke, a.o. Symposia and publications like Regina Huebner - Dear Cell, Perception of Self and Nonself il Life - Dear Cell - Regina Huebner, Anonymus Regina Huebner, a.o.
Her work includes symposia and collaborations in arts and science. She uses means from video to performative acts, involves so-called Protagonists and creates “Ambientations” and objects, like the Monument in Honour to Paul Watzlawick.
See: Recent exhibitions.
NARRATIVE
Since earliest times, Regina Hübner was drawing and dancing classic ballett. A friendship to an Austrian sculptor strenghted her idea to go on the path of art.
In 1980 she moved to Graz, where she started to paint in big dimensions.
The years in Graz were fundamental in her personal and artistic development. Studies of the Italian language in Perugia and Rome.
In 1985 she awarded Master of Arts in Graphic-Design at the Höhere Lehranstalt für Kunst und Design HTBLVA Graz-Ortweinschule, Graz, Austria.
In 1985 she worked for the first time with stone during a workshop, in the caves of St. Margarethen, Austria.
This meant a keye experience, which led her to go for one year to Carrarra, Italy.
During this period, instead of workin with marble, she painted on big sized, very thin papers and tissues. The Italian language became predominant.
In 1986 Regina Hübner moved to Rome.
In 1990 she graduated Master of Arts in Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, Italy.
During this period she preferred painting, drawing and forming free hanging thin plastiques, reaching lesser materical œvres since 1989 and combining interactions with movements and projections of slides/light/shadow in ambientations.
In 1995 she gave birth to her first daughter Galatea and in 2000 to her second daughter Vega Veridiana. Those new lifes inspired many artworks and questions about time and life. Growing up the two daughters, she re-discovered the bonding to her mother-language, German.
Since the '90 Regina Hübner visualizes her ideas mainly with experimental photography, film and video, performance, objects, ongoings. She creates so-called Ambientations, in which the artwork changes in order to the specific space or situation of its exhibition, in interaction with ambient and environment, becoming unique and not repeatable bodies.
The silent, from the nature registered pure or elaborated sounds, artificial or uncontrolled movements like the swinging of a tree branch in the wind can be a determining part. Also natural or artificial changements, interaction with animated beings - the visitors - and inanimated subjects can change the aspect of the artwork. The manuality, the handmade gestures are the growing entity of a work in progress including drawings, crafts and narrative.
The concept is basic. Text is part of the whole artwork, and extends communication.
Long-term themes manifest connnections between artworks from different periods. So we can find the iconography of specularity, repitition, circulation, endlessness, inversion of processes, and the concepts of the ongoing of time, the opposite, the relation, the communication, the perception.
Deep friendships led to collaborations with creatives from the fields of visual art, music, literature and science.
Hübner works also with persons, often important figures in her own life, the so-called Protagonists.
Their are central contributors of the artwork itself.
For example Anonymus dedicated to Vally, relationships, Dear Cell.
Culture Prize 2022 of the City of Villach, Kulturpreis 2022 der Stadt Villach (2022).
Decoration of Honour in Gold to the City of Villach, Goldenes Ehrenzeichen der Stadt Villach (2021).
Award winner of Memorial to Paul Watzlawick with Kommunikation Beziehung Wirklichkeit (2020).
Person of the Year, Culture, Kopf des Jahres Kultur, Kleine Zeitung Villach Klagenfurt (2022).
Fellow at IMéRA Institute for Advanced Study with Percepion of Self and Nonself in Life (2019).
Ambassador of The Independent Republic of Užupis for Villach and Klagenfurt (since 2022).
International solo shows, group shows and festivals. See: recent exhibitions.
Symposia and exclusive texts about her work. Artworks in public and private collections and public space.
Italian below
Regina Hübner (Huebner) was born in Villach, Austria. She lives in Villach and Rome, Italy.
Culture Prize 2022 of the City of Villach, Kulturpreis 2022 der Stadt Villach (2022)
Decoration of Honour in Gold to the City of Villach, Goldenes Ehrenzeichen der Stadt Villach (2021)
Guest Researcher at IMéRA Institute for Advanced Study of Aix-Marseille University (2019).
She gets her inspirations by questions about life and relationships between the individuum and universal concepts. Using different means to express her ideas, from experimental photography, video, sound, performance and so-called ambientations, to texts, subjects and objects, the artist creates artworks connected to ongoing themes and realizes unique Ambientations.
Hübner works also by involving other persons in her projects, the so-called Protagonists, or in collaboration with scientists and artists from the fields of visual art, literature and music.
Regina Hübner’s work was exhibited at Austrian Cultural Forum Rome; KAUNAS 2022 Contemporary Capital; MANIFESTA 13 - Les Parallèles du Sud; VIDEOFORMES 2021 and 2019; Nuit Blanche Paris 2018; Dinzlschloss Villach; MMKK Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten; MLAC Museo Laboratorio Arte Contemporanea dell’Università La Sapienza, Rome; IIC Italian Cultural Institute Vienna; Austrian Cultural Institute Rome and Milan; change+partner contemporary art Bracciano/Rome; State Archive Turin; Polish Institute Rome; EXPO 2015 Milano; Cinecittà Studios Rome;
ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe; CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux; BIM Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento Buenos Aires; Now&After International Video Art Festival, Contemporary Art Center Winzavod, Moscow; OVER THE REAL, Lucca Film Festival; Užupis Film Festival, Klaipeda; VIDEOFORMES International Festival of Video and Media Art, Clermont-Ferrand; ADAF Athen; Goethe Institut Dubai; Analog Room Dubai; Gamma Festival Moscow; FRAC Marseille, Amidex; Auckland Live Digital Stage; TICK TACK, Antwerp - Videodrome Paris; UZHUPIS FILM FESTIVAL, Neringa; Vilnius National Museum; Čiurlionis National Museum of Art, Kaunas; Mandel Center Tel Aviv; FIVAC Festival Internacional de Videoarte Camaguey; IMéRA - Institut Méditerranéen de Recherches Avancées, Marseille; VIDEOFORMA Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Center St. Petersburg; Lange Nacht der Museen Austria; FIAV Casablanca; Gallery of Arts Temple University Rome; ADDIS VIDEO ART FESTIVAL; Strangloscope Florianópolis; WAC Weekend d’Art Contemporain Bordeaux; TIME is LOVE10; FIAV Festival Friuli Venezia Giulia Fotografia, Udine; FulgorAzione Festival of Music and Arts, Capolona/Arezzo; FIVAC Festival Internacional de Videoarte de Camagüey; Sofia Underground Performance Art Festival, Sofia; WAC Bordeaux; Lange Nacht der Museen Austria; La Notte Bianca Roma; The Temple Gallery of Art Rome; Gallery Mcube Lalitpur; Goethe Institut Rom; Galerie ak Frankfurt; The Claremont Gallery, Los Angeles, US; Sala 1 Centro Internazionale di Arti Contemporanee, Rome, Italy; Kittredge Gallery, Tacoma, US; Nuova Icona, Venezia; Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Detroit; Galerie Freihausgasse Villach; Jewett Arts Center Gallery Massachusetts; Plymouth University; HIEDRA, Buenos Aires; Lange Nacht der Museen, Villach; luxflux.net, Web; changeartconcept.com, Web; a. o.
Recent Shows - Solo Shows - Group Shows and Festivals
Artworks since 2000 - Artworks before 2000
Symposia and Talks at VIDEOFORMES 2021, FRAC Marseille in A*Midex Aix-Marseille Université, IMéRA Institute for Advanced Study of Aix-Marseille University, Vilnius National Museum, Mandel Center Tel Aviv, Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Austrian Cultural Institutes of Rome and Milan, IIC Italian Cultural Institute Vienna, ZKM Karlsruhe.
With Elise Aspord, Giancarlo Consonni, Gabriella Galzio, Christine Wetzlinger-Grundnig, Regina Hübner, Pascale Hurtado, Luca Lombardi, Simonetta Lux, Constance Moreteau, Luciano Perez, Philippe Pierre, Arnulf Rohsmann, Sandrine Roulland, Carlo Sini, Gabriel Soucheyre.
Texts about her artworks by Roberto Annecchini, Giancarlo Consonni, Gabriella Galzio, Maria Egizia Fiaschetti, Sanne Helbers, Luca Lombardi, Simonetta Lux, Patrizia Mania, Igino Materazzi, Gerhard Mumelter, Franz Niegelhell, Luciano Perez, Ludovico Pratesi, Arnulf Rohsmann, Harald Schwinger, Domenico Scudero, Carlo Sini, Gabriel Soucheyre, Emanuela Termine, Shara Wasserman, Ruth Weisberg, Christine Wetzlinger-Grundnig, Giacomo Zaza, a.o.
Television: ORF Österreichischer Rundfunk, Seitenblicke by Martin S. Pusch; ORF Österreichischer Rundfunk and ORF Kaernten, Portrait Regina Huebner, Helga Suppan; Österreichischer Rundfunk Kaernten, Regina Hübner und der Milchtropfen, Iris Hofmeister; Corriere TV Corriere della Sera, Allattare è un’arte: l’opera di Regina Huebner a CasaCorriere EXPO Milano 2015, Maria Luisa Villa; Subbiano TV, FulgorAzione con l’arte di Regina Huebner, Stefanella Baglioni; a.o.
Artistic collaborations with Roberto Annecchini, Fabio Ciafariello Ciardi, Sonia Grandis, Marina Corona, Roberto Fabbriciani, Mayako Kubo, Luca Lombardi, Arnulf Rohsmann, Gabriel Soucheyre, Pietro Tripodo and with the Protagonists of projects as Perception of Self and Nonself in Life - Dear Cell, temps-durée, Anonymus dedicated to Vally, relationships, reflection and absorption with me and you.
Education
1986-1990 Academy of Fine Arts, Rome, Italy. Master of Arts in Sculpture.
1986 Academy of Fine Arts, Carrara, Italy. Corso Libero del Nudo. (did not participate at the course!)
1985 Caves of St. Margarethen im Burgenland, Austria. Workshop Sculpture. (keye-experience)
1980-1985 HTBLVA Höhere Abteilung für Kunst und Design Ortweinschule, Graz, Austria. Master of Arts in Graphic-Design.
Mag.a art. Regina Hübner
E-Mail: regina.huebner[at]reginahuebner.net
Website: http://www.reginahuebner.net
Networks
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ReginaHuebner
LinkedIn: https://at.linkedin.com/in/reginahuebner
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Vedere la forma giusta è come trovare una possibile risposta alla domanda che mi ha ispirato.
Amo comunicarla e l’emozione di chi la osserva mi rende felice.
Grandi temi come il tempo, la comunicazione, la relazione, ma anche esperienze personali attraversano l’operato di Regina Hübner. Concepisce opere e progetti complessi, con cui realizza creazioni installative in relazione con l’ambiente, che chiama ambientazioni.
Collabora anche con artisti visivi, letterati, musicisti, scienziati e intellettuali, a cui è legata per stima ed amicizia e crea interazioni con speciali persone, i cosiddetti Protagonisti.
La teorizzazione concettuale è parte integrante delle sue opere e può svilupparsi con conversazioni e simposi.
Regina Hübner usa diversi media, come fotografia sperimentale, video, performance, environment, sonoro, concept e testo, includendo soggetti e oggetti spesso con legami autobiografici. L’immagine in movimento, che si espande nel tempo e nello spazio, le è congeniale. L’inversione di procedimenti, la trasformazione, il silenzio, il rallentamento o l’accelerazione, sono elementi visivi ricorrenti.
Regina Hübner è nata a Villach in Austria.
Il padre Gerhard Ulrich era di Lipsia e la madre Edeltraud, di Villach.
Ha due figlie, Galatea e Vega Veridiana, nate a Roma.
Vive a Villach e Roma.
Ha studiato Graphic-Design alla HTBLVA Ortweinschule Graz (1980-1985) e Scultura all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma (1986-1990).
Nel 2019 è stata ricercatrice ospite all’Institut Méditerranéen de Recherches Avancées IMéRA dell’Università Aix-Marseille.
Nel 2021 ha realizzato per la Città di Villach un monumento in onore di Paul Watzlawick, per il suo centenario.
Nel 2021 è stata decorata con il Distintivo d'Onore in Oro, Goldenes Ehrenzeichen, dalla sua città nativa. Nel 2022 ha ricevuto il Premio alla Cultura della città, Kulturpreis der Stadt Villach.
Dal 2022 è ambascatrice della Republica Indipendente di Užupis per Villach e Klagenfurt
Ha concepito e realizzato opere insieme a Roberto Annecchini, Fabio Ciafariello Ciardi, Marina Corona, Roberto Fabbriciani, Sonia Grandis, Elisabeth Gülli, Mayako Kubo, Luca Lombardi, Arnulf Rohsmann, Gabriel Soucheyre, Pietro Tripodo, Protagonisti di Anonymus dedicated to Vally, relationships, Dear Cell.
Mostre personali internazionali solo shows, partecipazioni e festivals group shows and festivals. Mostre recenti: recent exhibitions.
Symposia e testi esclusivi texts sul suo lavoro. Opere in collezioni pubbliche e private e spazi pubblici public space.