Minimal and playful, Noa Giniger’s work is founded on the idea that nothing is stable, secure, or steady. As a consequence, a substantial part of her work relates to longing and the bittersweet of letting go. She investigates modes of navigation in this world, physical and emotional, inspired by systems of mapping and measurement, language and naming, natural laws and social codes. She explores the ways in which time and intimacy are linked, and addresses the difficulty of capturing intimacy with words. She uses different modes of collaboration and the ecosystem of the arts, creating occasions for collaborative practices and access. The outcomes of her projects include site-specific installations in both private and public space, sound, video, websites, objects, works on paper and writing. Additionally, Noa represents half of the spoken-word-poetry duo Noon & Ain with musician Anat Spiegel.
Noa Giniger graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris and attended the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University. She was a participant in the two-year program De Ateliers, Amsterdam; a Royal Dutch Institute Affiliated Fellow at the American Academy, Rome; an artist in residence at Villa Empain – Fondation Boghossian, Brussels and at Artport Tel Aviv. Her work has been presented in various international solo and group exhibitions including ICA, Philadelphia; Western Front, Vancouver; Air de Paris, Paris; De Appel, Amsterdam; among others. Noa 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. Noa Giniger lives and works in Amsterdam.
CONTACT
Marius van Bouwdijk Bastiaansestraat 153
1054 RW, Amsterdam
Netherlands
neshama(at)gmail.com
@noa.giniger
CREDITS
Clare Butcher
fanfare & Haris Hadžić
Mondriaan Fonds
The Contemporary Centre for Art | Residency
November 2021, May 2022, January 2023
The Contemporary Centre for Art, Arad, IL
Artists Residence Herzliya | Residency
September – October 2021
Artists Residence Herzliya, Herzliya, IL
Artport | Residency
April – June 2021
Artport, Tel Aviv, IL
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
Alternating residency, blog
Blog [http://fabzimmer.wordpress.com]
2011
Alternating residency, blog
Blog [http://fabzimmer.wordpress.com]
2011
Over a period of seven weeks I invited seven female artist friends from different countries to stay with me – each one for one week – for an in-situ dialogue in Kunsthuis SYB. These artists are important personas in my life and practice. During this time, I was looking to bridge the physical distances that separate us and to examine notions such as: leisure and friendship and the lack of togetherness in today’s world. Our time together was meant to provide ideal conditions for communication, for projection of individual information, for collecting in order to create a greater whole – in order to look into how things are created and how we create things.The project is accompanied by a blog – a log of our moments together, a collection of information, experiences and emotion. In 2012 the artist book Exstatic+Streaming was published as a reflection upon this residency through texts and images.
Participating artists: Keren Benbenisty, Gaëlle Boucand, Rada Boukove, Halina Kliem, Shana Moulton and Anat Spiegel.
Zimmer for FAB was made possible with the support of Kunsthuis SYB, Mondriaan Fonds, Fonds BKVB and Institut Français des Pays-Bas.
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Artist book, first edition: 30 copies
96 pages, 27.5 x 19.5 cm
2012
Artist book, first edition: 30 copies
96 pages, 27.5 x 19.5 cm
2012
The publication Ecstatic+Streaming is a collection of texts and images from Zimmer for FAB, a project that I initiated for Kunsthuis SyB in 2011. The publication comprises excerpts from the assembled blog materials, converting their online (non-)existence into printed matter including an introduction by me and an essay by curator Yael Messer. While the blog offers an immediate glimpse into the intimate and sometimes cryptic context of the residency, the publication aims to offer a retrospective reflection into the chronology and outcomes of our unique process together.
Ecstatic+Streaming is self-published. It was made possible with the support of Kunsthuis SYB, Mondriaan Fonds, Fonds BKVB and Institut Français des Pays-Bas.
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Installation, dimmed space, 5 blade-ceiling fan, paint, light bulb
132 cm diameter blade sweep
2008
Installation, dimmed space, 5 blade-ceiling fan, paint, light bulb
132 cm diameter blade sweep
2008
A ceiling fan turns in the space. The only light source comes from the bulb of the fan. The blades of the fan have been painted black in such a way that as the blades turn, a flickering reflection of the bulb is created once in every cycle. An endless loop of ambition and despair, hinting at, but not limited to, this moment when an idea comes to mind – also referred to as a “light bulb moment”.
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Laser print on letter size page, double-sided frame
30.48 x 30.48 cm (12 x 12 inch)
2004
Laser print on letter size page, double-sided frame
30.48 x 30.48 cm (12 x 12 inch)
2004
While temporarily residing in Pittsburgh as an exchange art student from Paris, I responded to an open call to participate in an exhibition at the Andy Warhol Museum: “Submissions are open to all artists from the Pittsburgh region with the guideline that all works have to be exactly 12 x 12 inches”. With these generic guidelines in mind, I printed and submitted my up to date Curriculum Vitae, including a line mentioning the exhibition in question. A one of a kind piece, signed and placed in a customized-made frame. My piece was rejected: “we appreciate your interest, and wish you success in your future artistic endeavours”.Nevertheless, the title of the work comprises the name and creation date of the document, type and size (digital format), media and size (physical material).
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Exhibition, Home, Amsterdam, NL
2018
Exhibition, Home, Amsterdam, NL
2018
Cool Loneliness – a term coined by Pema Chodron in her book When Things Fall Apart – is a home exhibition created in response to an invitation by artists Sascha Pohle and Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec to contribute to their self-organized exhibition titled Home Sequence. The exhibition took place over one weekend in the private homes of different Amsterdam-based artists. For this event, I chose to show a mix of old and new artworks rearranged within my intimate space, surrounded with objects and collection that are not necessarily regarded as “art” per se – my cabinet of curiosities. And as artworks were dispersed around the apartment, a floor plan assisted in navigating. It was an opportunity for me to both experiment with works and ideas – final and draft, and to share other private layers of my world with the public. Some works are site specific and were made especially for this occasion and their existence ceased once the exhibition ended.
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With Anat Spiegel
Spoken word poetry
Lifelong project
With Anat Spiegel
Spoken word poetry
Lifelong project
Spoken word poetry duo NOON & AIN is visual artist Noa Giniger and vocalist-composer Anat Spiegel, who explore feminine and existential topics through a personal, friendship-based dialogue. We actively participate in the development of a digital democracy that encourages autonomy and collaboration with a DIY approach. Together, we create poems from our own digital chats and emails. As our functional communication turns into pure poetry, a non-linear alternative intimate narrative emerges, reshuffling art and the everyday. Our life-long collaboration started during a residency in 2011. We named the duo NOON & AIN after the first letters of our names in Hebrew. Through the years we have shifted between different composition methods: from the usage of Cut Up technique in our early poems to the more recent endeavor into Exquisite Cadaver. We always keep the duo’s signature dialogical colors: red and black, each colour representing the words of either Noa or Anat. We usually work in Hebrew, our mother tongue, using English translations as another setting where we play with technology and humanity.The website www.noonandain.com displays our unusual creative process through texts, audio recordings, choreographed videos and a variety of behind-the-scenes material.
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