Philipp Hesser

NININ is an expression of Oneness - NININ occupies the space between craft and contemporary art, where disciplined repetition and material execution serve a concept that exceeds the individual object. - NININ’s repeated form paradoxically reveals difference: each iteration is subtly distinct, a unique individual within a rigorous universal system. - The NININ series is an iconic visual formula—a state of rigorous, repetitive simplicity— black, black, red, monochrome on 3 canvases each 60x80cm. a conceptual mirror, reflecting the constructed nature of form and identity. Though composed of strict, repeated panels, NININ reaches beyond form, pointing toward the singular ground of reality. In its paradoxical simplicity and subtle variation, it becomes a mirror of the absolute, a visual meditation on being itself.

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.

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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