ANA-MARIJA KRALJ
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ANA-MARIJA KRALJ
Ana-Marija Kralj is a young artist with a distinctive and atypical expression. This primarily refers to the material she works with - metal. It is completely contradictory to the artist’s fragile appearance, but perfectly compatible with her strong spirit. Working with such heavy material is a challenge that even more experienced artists most often avoid. In contact and work with metal, endurance and patience are required for its rough processing, as well as the will to get to know the physical and chemical processes that occur in its processing. A dose of curiosity and adventurism is also needed because such a procedure is a living process during which the final appearance of the work is unpredictable.
The process is exactly what the artist herself emphasizes as the most important part of her art. The result can never be fully predicted and it is this moment of uncertainty and spontaneity that is the main feature of her technique that ensures the uniqueness of each work.

Ana-Marija bravely treads the lonely and pioneering path of experimenting with metal painting, which is ideologically in line with the radical informal Ivo Gattin and Eugen Feller from the early 1960s, but manifested in a somewhat milder and above all more elegant form. In all of them, the process of creating a work is in the center of interest and dictates the final appearance of the work. But as much as the aforementioned duo torments the material to the point of exhausted unrecognizability, so much does our artist manage to impose the aesthetics of the final product in the first place.



2020 Group exhibition at Art Zagreb
2020 Group exhibition Cetiri+jedan at Center for culture Cakovec
2019 Solo exhibition “Concept” in Museum Croata insulanus Grada Preloga
2019 Solo exhibition “Proces” in Museum Medjimurja Cakovec
2019 Group exhibition at Art Zagreb
2018 Group exhibition Art Haustor
2018 Group exhibition Kulturos
2017 Solo exhibition "Momentum" at Hotel Spa Golfer
2017 Solo exhibition "Das Experiment" at Sveti Martin Gallery
2017 Group exhibition at Design Week Zagreb
2016 Merien King Spring/Summer 2017 in Budapest
2015 Kralj & Krajina Spring/Summer 2015 in Zagreb
2014 Kralj & Krajina for Trendcy Fall/Winter 2014/15 in Zagreb
2013 Kralj & Krajina Spring/Summer 2014 in Zagreb
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