Philipp Hesser

The NININ series is an iconic visual formula—a state of rigorous, repetitive simplicity—that serves as a conceptual mirror, reflecting the arbitrary nature of form and identity, and standing as the non-dualistic ground of reality itself.

NININ is form reaching toward the formless.
It is pure potential, void made manifest.
It is infinity and presence, simultaneous and indivisible.
It is time revealed through repetition, not as becoming, but as already being — a clock of existence itself.
It is neither beautiful nor ugly, neither narrative nor representation.
It is vessel and manifestation, receiving without change, containing without limit.
It simply is.

NININ insists on paradox. Like a Zen riddle, it resists resolution: neither is, nor is not. The canvases, saturated to the point of opacity, become both surface and abyss. Their darkness recalls the censored page, where black bars erase meaning while simultaneously declaring its presence. What is hidden becomes visible through its concealment; what is shown dissolves into insignificance through repetition and excess.

In this way, NININ speaks the language of our time: a world of overproduction and arbitrariness, where every image is immediately consumed by the next, where social ...

2022: TEFL certified (Teaching English as a Foreign Language)

2019: Learning sailing from the Wind and the Water aboard sailing boat "Runa" on the Atlantic coast; France

2013 - 2015: Studied painting and art history with Kathmandu, Nepal based french artist Vincent Gréby in Battambang, Cambodia.

2011: MA Social- Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna/Austria (museum studies, Southeast Asia)
1997: started painting after graduation from high school - autodidact

Battambang International Digital Arts Featival 2016

Corpus. Group Exhibition at the Sangker Gallery, Battambang, Cambodia. October 2015

The Battambang Monochron. Large Scale Painting Group Project at Sammaki Art Space, Battambang, Cambodia. December 2014 - June 2015

20$, I love you too much! Vincent Gréby and Philipp Hesser at Make Maek Art Space, Battambang, Cambodia. July - August 2014