Nik Erik Neubauer (1994) is a visual artist and a photographer from Ljubljana. In his work, he deals with the intimate social issues of our everyday life with a contemporary documentary approach. He graduated in photography at VIST - Faculty of Applied Sciences in 2017 and obtained his master’s degree in photography at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in 2021. In 2021, he was nominated for the Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award and GUP Magazine named him amongst the most promising European photographers. His photobook You Always Cry Twice When You Go to the South was selected for PhotobookWeek in Aarhus. The same year he was awarded a Watchdog award by the Slovenian Association of Journalists for his long-term project of covering anti-government protests in Slovenia. In 2022 he became one of the winners of the Belfast Photo Festival in the photobook section. In 2023 he was nominated for OHO Award, the main national award for young visual artists in Slovenia. His second photobook Where’s the Afters?, published by the National Museum of Contemporary History, was shortlisted at Rencontres d’Arles Book Awards. Since 2024 the book is available also in Printed Matter Inc., NYC.

Represented by Galerija Fotografija
CV in Slovenian