Born in Israel, Noa Giniger graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (2005) and attended the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University as an exchange student (2003-2004). She was a participant in the two-year program De Ateliers, Amsterdam (2006-2008), a Royal Dutch Institute Affiliated Fellow at the American Academy, Rome (2011) and recently, an artist in residence at Villa Empain – Fondation Bogossain, Brussels (2019). Noa has received Stipendium for Established Artists from Mondriaan Funds (2018-2022) and Development Grant from Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK) (2016) . Her work has been presented in various international solo and group exhibitions. She is also a board member at Tohu– an independent online art magazine dedicated to promoting clear and engaged writing about art and culture in Hebrew, Arabic, and English; and at puntWG – an artist-run experimental community and presentation space in Amsterdam. Additionally, Noa represents half of the spoken-word-poetry duo Noon & Ain with musician Anat Spiegel. Noa Giniger lives and works in Amsterdam.
CONTACT
WG-Plein 33C
Amsterdam 1054 RA
Netherlands
neshama@gmail.com
@noa.giniger
CREDITS
Clare Butcher
fanfare & Haris Hadžić
Mondriaan Fonds
Open skies | Group Show
Curator: Avi Lubin
12 – 14 November 2020
Loving Art. Making Art. Tel Aviv, IL
The Sorrow the Joy Brings | Online contribution
Invitation by Tal Yahas and Rinat Edelstein
המצאת הטבע Issue #30, Harama (on-line magazine), 2020
Poeticising Leisure | Group show
29 May – 11 July 2020
Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, Amsterdam, NL
Viral Self-Portraits | Online Exhibition
Invited by Galit Eilat
15 May – 31 December 2020
MG+MSUM, Ljubljana, SI
Chapter 3HREE | Artist Talk
8 March 2020, 4 – 5 p.m.
With Desiree Dolron, Noa Giniger and Maria Roosen
Het Hem, Zaandam, NL
Limited Edition Art Fair | Prints and Multiples
14 – 16 February 2020
Fondation Boghossian – Villa Empain, Brussles, BE
Chapter 3HREE | Group show
Curated by Rieke Vos and Maarten Spruyt
14 January – 3 May 2020
Het Hem, Zandaam, NL
Mondriaan Fonds | Grant
Receiver of Stipendium for Established Artists
(Werkbijdrage Bewezen Talent)
2018 – 2022
Flowers of Our Land | Group Show
Curator: Udi Edelman
16 February – 18 May 2019
Israeli Centre for Digital art in Holon, IL
Get Lost Dreams | Online contribution
Invitation by Tal Yahas and Rinat Edelstein
Futures Issue #25, Harama (on-line magazine), 2019
Noon & Ain in Nanopoetica | Special contribution
Edited by alex Ben-Ari
Second Hebrew Anthology of Conceptual Poetry
Launch: 21 November 2019
Print screen Festival, Israeli Centre for Digital art in Holon, Israel
Leaving Living | Screening
Curator: Jean-Marie Gallais
9 December 2018, 6 p.m.
Centre Pompidou-Mertz, Mertz, FR
Cool Loneliness | Solo Exhibition
Initiated and organized by Sascha Pohle and Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec
Exhibition: 14 – 15 July 2018
Opening: 13 July 2008, 6 – 9 p.m.
Home Sequence
בשנים האחרונות, הבוץ גדל | Online contribution
Invitation by Tal Yahas and Rinat Edelstein
Chain Reaction, Issue #21, Harama (on-line magazine), 2018
Unwilling: Exercise in Melancholy | Group show
Curators: Vanessa Kwan and Kimberly Phillips
Exhibition: 12 March – 28 April 2018
Artists talk: 21 March 2018, 5 p.m.
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, PA, USA
Multiples and Editions | Group show
The Hazenstraat Biennale: 15 – 31 March 2018
Gallery Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam, NL
The Merry-Go-Round (part 2) | Group Show
Curator: Jeanine Holfland
Exhibition: 16 February – 3 March 2018
Juliette Jongma Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
As Long As | Limited Edition ⏳?
NU NU NU NOW NOW NOW
Stedelijk Museum Shop, Amsterdam, NL
Blog [http://the-sorrow-the-joy-brings.tumblr.com]
2008 – 2013
Blog [http://the-sorrow-the-joy-brings.tumblr.com]
2008 – 2013
This blog retrospectively tracks the five-year-long attempt to cheer up a weeping willow, together with the people and events that I encountered along the way. It includes conversations with different experts in the fields of aerodynamics, neuroscience, special effects and more. The work traces applications for funding, location hunts, clips and images created by myself and others, and finally the behind-the-scenes on the shooting day and a non-official trailer of the action as captured on 35mm film.
related works:
Website [www.absolutecountdown.com]
Screen size
Online since 31.12.2008
Website [www.absolutecountdown.com]
Screen size
Online since 31.12.2008
A countdown that starts at ten seconds and counts time in absolute value potentially forever, or as long as the browser window remains open.
Absolute Countdown is the second part of the online trilogy, No Time for Nostalgia [dot] Now.
Design: Sam de Groot
Production: Thijs Gadiot, Harris Blondman
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Installation, passive infrared motion sensor, sound
Device size 9 x 6 x 0.25 cm
2008
Installation, passive infrared motion sensor, sound
Device size 9 x 6 x 0.25 cm
2008
In music, an interval is considered unstable or unresolved when it suggests a successive note to bring it to an end. Otherwise it remains hanging in the air, creating a sense of anticipation for a coming event. The “ding-dong” of a traditional doorbell can be considered a static interval. The listener’s expectations are met. Here, an unresolved interval is slowed down and played on a piano.This work was originally made for the occasion of the exhibition Master Humphrey’s Clockat Het Gebouw: the pavilion dedicated to artist Stanley Brouwn. Placed at the entrance of the pavilion, the interval plays every time a person walks through the door, entering or exiting the space, thus acting as a soundtrack accompanying the exhibition.
related works:
White horse figurines, statues, toys and steel pedestal with wood top
100 x 1800 x 40 cm
2011
White horse figurines, statues, toys and steel pedestal with wood top
100 x 1800 x 40 cm
2011
A collection of white horses: the legendary vehicle by which our dreams will come true. The symbolism of this work is explicitly romantic, suggesting a perfect future possible through just one thing; the arrival of the one. Yet, the work frustrates its own hopefulness through the logic of a collection: the implication that more is always preferable. An accumulation without an end.
related works:
Website [www.verticalelement.faith]
Screen size
Online since 16.11.2016
Website [www.verticalelement.faith]
Screen size
Online since 16.11.2016
An endless scrolling site. Visitors to Vertical Element are first exposed to an image of an inverse mountain, taken from the world of emojicons symbolizing Mount Fuji in Japan. At the bottom of the screen, the scroll bar begins its countdown – in pixel units – towards the zero point, and from there continues an infinite ascent into the measured and numbered void. The scroll operates at a fixed internal rhythm, and while manual intervention is possible – up, down – inactivity engenders surrender to adjusting direction and speed, which are preset.
Vertical Element is the third and final part of the online trilogy, No Time for Nostalgia [dot] Noa.
The website was created following an invitation by Udi Edelman and Yael Messer (The Institute for Public Presence) to take part in Ma’arav, an online art and culture magazine dedicated to artist Ezra Orion.
Production: Harris Blondman
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Boggle board, letter dice
11 x 15 x 2 cm
2012
Boggle board, letter dice
11 x 15 x 2 cm
2012
The plural of the noun is denoted by the letter “s”. Once it is dropped, this abstract countdown has come to an end.In Summer 2011 in Paris, I saw a window shop that had the word SALE written in handwriting on its window. And below in big size were the words: “Last Days”. Only that the “s” was crossed out announcing the end of this abstract, letter based, countdown, the beginning of which; hence its end remains unknown.
related works:
Video installation, 10’30” loop
Variable dimensions
2005
Video installation, 10’30” loop
Variable dimensions
2005
The film frames and follows a mise-en-scène I created: a structure – the façade of which is decorated by a light garland –, a carpet in front of the entrance door, and a white plastic fence that surrounds its territory, its non-existent garden. The structure is located on a one-way street. The string of lights turns on for few seconds each time a car approaches the structure. The illumination is short, lasting only for the duration of the passage of the car. Elsewhen, the scene is dark, quiet, with no indications for when the next illumination will occur. The car did not choose its role, nor is it informed as to the consequence of its act. It penetrates the zone controlled by a movement detector and thus forces the facade-house to turn on. From the vehicle’s point of view, the structure is always illuminated, always animated. The camera, which documents the scene, captures the full sequence of events. It is programmed on night-shot and on automatic focus. The image does not have colors and oscillates between focused and blurry, without any human control.
related works:
Programmable LED Message Fan
Fan diameter: ⌀88 mm, length 40 cm
2011/2020
Website [www.forthetimebeing.be]
Variable dimensions and durations
Online since April 2020
Programmable LED Message Fan
Fan diameter: ⌀88 mm, length 40 cm
2011/2020
Website [www.forthetimebeing.be]
Variable dimensions and durations
Online since April 2020
A words-based loading circle and the uploaded data itself. The first text-cycle displays: FOR THE TIME cycling clockwise. Then followed by the second text-cycle: BEING cycling counterclockwise. These two cycles repeat endlessly while also creating a current of air. In April 2020, I turned the actual object into a website, where viewers can intimately experience the work in their chosen location, correspondingly to the speed of their own internet. Time, screen, saver.
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