Andreja Hribernik was born in Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia, in 1978. She has been director of the Kunsthaus Graz since January 1, 2023.

Andreja Hribernik studied Political Science and International Relations at the University of Ljubljana from 1997 to 2003. In 2006, she received a scholarship for young curators from Eastern Europe from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony and lived in Germany from 2007 to 2009. During this time, she realized the web project GfZK-3 at the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig (GfZK) and curated the solo exhibition of Arthur Zalewski.

Between 2010 and 2013, Hribernik worked at the Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana in project coordination and digitization.
She completed her doctorate at the Institute for Humanistic Studies in Ljubljana in 2016. Dissertation on the topic "The Museum as a Place of Utopia. Cultural anthropology, sociology, museum studies.