Nikola Zigon

Nikola Zigon was born in Ljubljana, July the 13th, in 1958.
In 1991, he graduates from the painting department of the Academy of Fine Arts and obtains his MA.
In response to political events and war on the Yugoslav soil, Nikola makes his first exhibition, the Portrait Series of 1992 in the NUBS Gallery in Belgrade. It deals with a symbolic representation of a human being that reflects the tendency to discover the inner, essential being under the mask of an ephemeral, individual person.
In 1993, he makes a new exhibition, Insight of the door, at the DKSC Gallery, Belgrade.
The working title is the exhibition event, since it is a multimedia project: movement of a ballet group, painted doors, and video installation. Nikola perceives the doors as portals we pass through during our lifetime. The Door of birth, door of childhood, door of youth, in the linear understanding of life, and in the metaphysical one, the door of harmony, door of restlessness, door of misconception. Search for a key that opens its own lock.
In 1994, he participates in the theater festival Malo Sterijino Pozorje with his multimedia project, takes part in the Short Film Festival in Belgrade with video installation Death in Venice devoted to the non-participati...