Born in Zagreb, on February 5th, 1966., a teacher of fine art and have a BA in fine arts from the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts, as well as an additional degree in graphic design.
Graduated in 1997, in the class of professor M. šutej, with painting as her main subject.
As an undergraduate, she participated on 1992 and 1993 group exibitions in Zagreb, in Vladimir Nazor, SC, and Gradec picture galleries.She is profesor of Fine Art in High School.
She lives and works in Zagreb.
Individual
exhibitions:
1994, CEKAO Gallery, Zagreb - photography exibition 'Shadows Conceal Time'
1998, Ideal City Gallery, Zagreb - photograps, 'Challenge of Negation'
1999, Juraj Klovic Gallery, Rijeka - relief paintings 'Naves Nostrum'
2000, Dora Art Gallery, Varazdin - relief paintings; together with M. Kumbatovic and Lj. Buble-Dragojevic
2001, Zagreb-CEKAO Gallery, Zagreb - exhibition of masks 'The Masks'
2002, Spektar Gallery, Zagreb - paintings and sculptures; without name
2004. „Contempora“ Gallery, Zagreb – sailing ships
- trattoria „ La Storia“, Zagreb –small ships
- Brasseria restoran, Zagreb
- Stuttgart, restoran „Dalmatia“
2005. „Contempora“ Gallery – street exhibition
2005/06.- „From Atelier“ – salon „Zrinjevac“, airport Zagreb
2006. Retrospectiv – „Kristofor Stankovic“ Gallery, Zagreb
2006. Bogdan Ogrizović library, Zagreb
2006. Exibition in library „Bogdan Ogrizović“, Zagreb
2006. Exibition in „Kraš“ factory show-room, Zagreb
2007. Retrospective exibition of HDLU members, Prsten" gallery, Zagreb
2008. City Museum - Krapina, „Bau Bau“ – exibition of masks,
2008. Exibition „Naves Nostrum Nuove“, caffe - cultural centre "Zeus Faber", Zagreb.
2009. Exibition „Naves Nostrum II“ - gallery of Arsenal, Zadar.
Group exhibitions:
2000, Grad Gallery, Rijeka - 'The Mask of Croatian Painters and Sculptors'
2001, gallery of the Town's Museum of Makarska - 'Duration of Heritage', original project of M. Baricevic, together with 8 other artists
2005. Review election works of HDLU members- House of HDLU, Zagreb

Natasa Stipanov:
Artistic production of Ana Krleza uses and
analyses two incongruously disimilar media.
First and foremost, there was photography.
After having painted with light, Ana commenced
with rice paper, using it in a complex combination
of various kinds of paint and applications.
By the means of crushing, kasiranje (the
process of dipping paper into glue and arranging
it in many layers), and painting of paper
on a hard surface, a genuine atmosphere
of an old piece of art is invoked. Sometimes
realistic, sometimes stylized, the paintings
od these ships are firmly linked with their
authentic historical counterparts.Thus,
the name given to the exhibition itself
- 'Naves Nostrum', is a geographically located
segment of Croatian history.
The ships brought to us by Ana are not so
volatile in their realization and techical
aspect, as the scale of colours they use
is distinct in a way that opens an interesting
and dinamic game. In an almost ascetic repetition
of theme and motives, we can read out a
very subtle, yet convincing aesthetic game.Harmony
of details interpolated on a static motif
both puzzles and fills us with wonder; the
motif which, nonetheless, does not lack
the wind in its sails.
Artistic shape of Ana Krleza's works is,
above all, a consequence of a poetically
moved female soul, looking for a dream within
the given framework of the world of facts.
Marina Baricevic:
The masks of academic painter Ana Krleza
are the unique pieces ar art: relief paintings,
assemblage-objects. Without reference or
historical background. The author's experience
of the mask emerges exclusively from its
picturesque aspect which is why the mask
is
built of diverse materials, the basis being
rice paper.
Devoid of the burden of tradition, the painter
plays in a way characteristic of youth and
explorer's curiosity; the masks are creative
inter-cycles in the opus, in which the elements
of tradition, together with the painter's
poetics form its two recognizable and beneficinet
traits .
Visnja Slavica Gabout:
Ana Krleza treats her paitnings as places
of playful games and memories. They become
imaginative and talkative picture-books,
dreamy memory albums in which, artfully
and with inspiration, with the feeling of
joy and melancholy, she paints childhood
tales and miths of long ago, of folk poetics
and joyous fantasy.
Three main motives are nurtured, varied,
and modified: ships, masks, and trees. Strong
and metaphorical, rich and morphological
potential of the motives impregnated with
deep symbolism, grants them the ability
of
communication and clarity, makes them evocative,
as well as fluid and metaphisical. The trees
are connected with the idea of constant
and cyclic renewal of life, bearing the
notion od fertility, mortality, and eternity;
both cosmic and human.
The author handles relations between volume
and space, mass and surface, ulness and
emptiness in a way that she transforms the
three-dimensional physical reality into
the two-dimensional one.Reality and illusions
are met somewhere at the edges of the painting.
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