Philipp Hesser

In NININ, painting unfolds through repetition, where no work is final and none stands alone. Each piece belongs to a larger field — similar, yet never identical. The longer one lives with it, the more it shifts: what first appears quiet begins to hold tension, density, and presence.
These works do not impose themselves. They remain steady, almost reserved, but they do not fade. They stay. Over time, they begin to structure the space around them, and the way one looks.
To live with a NININ is to live with something that does not resolve — something that continues.
Philipp Hesser, born 1980 in Linz, Austria. Painter, musician, cultural-social anthropologist. Lives and works in Vienna.

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

2019- 2023: 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