NIKOLA ŽIGON was born in 1958 in Ljubljana. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1991. In the early period of his artistic career, he worked with drawing, video art, and artistic installations, which the public could view at the Gallery of the Students' Cultural Center in 1992 and at the Museum of Contemporary Art Salon in 1995. In 2000, he moved to Paris, where he lived and worked, exhibiting at the Yugoslav Cultural Center Gallery and the International Gallery. In 2002, he became an exclusive member of the prestigious Prom Gallery in Munich. His paintings are part of the permanent collection at the Würth Museum in Künzelsau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, as well as in numerous private collections across Europe and America. In his exhibitions from 2004 at the Prom Gallery in Munich, in Portugal, at the Eurocentar Gallery in Belgrade, and at the Progres Gallery and DKSG in Belgrade, he exhibited his white paintings. In 2011, he presented the exhibition "Moonlight Mile" at the Apollonia Palace in Piran, and the same year, he exhibited at the Arte Reale Gallery in Milan. His 2018 exhibition "As If It Was Once" at the X Vitamin Gallery was dedicated to his mother, actress Jelena Žigon. Memory and reflection on past memories sparked a bright and fresh energy, opening a new phase in the artist's career. In 2021, after many years abroad, he returned to the Belgrade cultural and artistic scene with the exhibition "The Smile Returned to the City" at the Žigon family home in Senjak, Belgrade. In 2023, he presented the exhibition "Paintings in E Minor" at the Štab Gallery in Belgrade.
