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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A daily alternating installation, various objects
De Inkijk and different locations around Amsterdam
2009
A daily alternating installation, various objects
De Inkijk and different locations around Amsterdam
2009
On Temporary Loan comprises a selection of items from twenty-one windowsill displays, collected from homes in different parts of Amsterdam. Every day another display was unveiled and exhibited in its original state. While these objects were on display at de Inkijk space, a sign was placed on the empty windowsill of the objects’ owner, indicating the objects’ absence to passersby. The title of the work refers to the signs that hang in museums when a particular work from the permanent collection is on loan.On Temporary Loan was the fourth and last project for The Precarious State, a series of projects that was initiated by SKOR in 2008 and held at De Inkijk reflecting upon the concept of identity.
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With Robin Vanbesien
Site specific installation, mixed media, website (active for the duration of the project only)
2009
With Robin Vanbesien
Site specific installation, mixed media, website (active for the duration of the project only)
2009
Empty Orchestra took place in two synchronized locations: Square St. Denis in Brussels and the website [www.PlacestDenis-SintDenijsplein.be] that was active for the duration of the project only. The term “Empty Orchestra” is the definition for the Japanese word “karaoke”. The concept started as a form of entertainment in which amateur singers sing along with recorded music using a microphone and public address system. Today, karaoke service is no longer found only in special bars but can be downloaded and uploaded on mobile phones.For the duration of the project an instrumental karaoke version of a song was played at set times (09:00, 13:00, 17:00) from the existing mega-phones located in the square and the nearby streets. Every day a different song played. In parallel the lyrics of the song of the day were streamed on the website: without melody only the words appeared in sync with the song’s tempo.The physical elements located on the Square St. Denis functioned as a décor for the project. The launderette’s display mirrored the plants seen in the Square. The next-door billboard feature da homogeneous green surface that suggested both a green surface and at the same time a Green Screen with the potential to reveal more images behind it, other places. Combined with the daily soundtrack of the square, these elements emphasized the potential of the square to host multiple scenes and prevented the site from becoming static.Empty Orchestra was the fifth project as part of Wiels hors les mursprogram, held in Speedy Wash at Square St. Denis.
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Photo series
2004
Photo series
2004
In 2003, while an exchange student from Paris at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, I met artist Shana Moulton. This encounter led to a photo series that explores the unique wardrobe of Shana’s alter-ego Cynthia.
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Two vintage chairs, cat’s nails
70 x 50 x 60 cm each chair
2015 – 2020
Two vintage chairs, cat’s nails
70 x 50 x 60 cm each chair
2015 – 2020
The work is composed of two vintage chairs that I found in the streets of Paris before moving to Amsterdam. Since 2015 the chairs have been used by Mimi my cat, to sharpen her claws. This performance of wild instincts, as she maintains her survival tools and prepares for unknown encounters, has since confronted me with automatic disapproval – watching how the chairs slowly got ruined – mixed with the pleasure of witnessing her satisfaction while doing so. Moreover, despite the apparent vandalism they underwent, I found myself being hypnotized by Mimi’s ongoing effort and the symmetrical result of her work: the soft upholstery has unraveled like two wings on both sides of each chair, while her nails got knitted in it as hidden pearls. On the occasion of the home exhibition Cool Loneliness (2018), I decided to declare the chairs as an artwork. This pronouncement was a result of reflecting on animalism, female craft, artistic labor, and ownership. In May 2020 the chairs left my home to participate in the exhibition Poeticizing Leisure at Gallery Hofland Althuis in Amsterdam. This has signalized the end of Mimi’s work; in my eyes they have reached their final touch.
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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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