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
Four engraved metal plaques, chairs
1.8 x 9 cm each plaque, 85 x 45 x 45 cm each chair
2018
Four engraved metal plaques, chairs
1.8 x 9 cm each plaque, 85 x 45 x 45 cm each chair
2018
Situated in my living room, the dining table and chairs act as an orientation apparatus; compass. On the backs of each seat, on the wooden frame, a metal plaque indicates the name of the street located behind this chair. The typeface New West on each plaque relates further to the piece’s location in the Old West neighbourhood of Amsterdam. Compass echoes the past and future circulation of such items as furniture – remnants of belonging, souvenirs.
related works:
Graphite, two cotton pillowcases, bedding set
55 x 65 cm each
2018
Graphite, two cotton pillowcases, bedding set
55 x 65 cm each
2018
“It’s easy to get lost in your own dreams”: this sentence is taken from my daily horoscope as it appeared on the online work Recalculating Route. The text is traced in graphite onto two pillowcases, dividing any reading of the original sentence. The piece was made site-specificity for my bed room for the exhibition Cool Loneliness.
related works:
Machine embroidery
8 x 7 cm
2017
Collage, laser print
Series of 17 prints, Variable dimensions
2017
Machine embroidery
8 x 7 cm
2017
Collage, laser print
Series of 17 prints, Variable dimensions
2017
Vibrations (Silver Time/ Last Fuck) was created at the invitation of Mick Quistrebert and La Valise in Nantes for a design of a coat-of-arms to be embroidered by Les Ateliers Meresse: one of the last French companies to produce those kinds of embroideries. My composition is based on one of seventeen collages, where I use two silver paper clips (“attachments”) as clock hands positioned in various arrangements over a black and white print of a sailing scene by a Hercules Segers. The form of my coat-of-arms is a truncated heart.
For inquiry: Blazers/Blasons
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Installation, mirror, tripod, sunlight, ceiling
Variable dimensions, 5 hours duration
2018
Installation, mirror, tripod, sunlight, ceiling
Variable dimensions, 5 hours duration
2018
Tuned precisely to follow the opening hours of the exhibition Cool Loneliness, this spatial sundial liberates me from regularly checking the hour. The mirror is positioned in such a way that at 2 p.m., the opening hour, a ray of sunlight that enters through the window is directed to the ceiling. During the following five hours, the projected sun beam traverses the living room space until precisely 7 p.m. – the closing hour – when it exits the space.
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Rubber and nylon, colors variable
135 x 85 cm
2009
Rubber and nylon, colors variable
135 x 85 cm
2009
Site Specific is an ongoing series of rugs that are based on the house number of their locations. The shape and size are determined according to the designated spot of the existing doormat.(34) was designed especially for the entrance of Galerie Gabriel Rolt in Amsterdam (which no longer exists) and was on view during my solo exhibition :-)-: in 2009. It was inspired by the spirit and persona of the gallerist himself and made available as a multiple by request. During my solo exhibition Cool Lonelinessthe rug was also on view. When placed at the entrance of my apartment, this doormat lost its site-specificity, becoming an artifact instead.
related works:
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.
related works:
Dictionaries, metal bookends, wood shelf
Variable dimensions [here sequence #2: 24 x 85 x 22 cm]
Ongoing (Since 2004)
Dictionaries, metal bookends, wood shelf
Variable dimensions [here sequence #2: 24 x 85 x 22 cm]
Ongoing (Since 2004)
Everything Near Becomes Distant is an exploration of meaning and words as they are translated from one language to another. The work consists of dictionaries arranged in a row, each including words in one language with their equivalents in another language. As Spanish is translated to Romanian, Romanian to German, German to Indonesian, Indonesian to Dutch and so on, the flow through the dictionaries offers a chain of meanings, which are not necessarily equivalent. The collection is eclectic in terms of publication year, edition and category. The differences between each dictionary in terms of vocabulary illustrate the difficulty of faithful translation, traveling from a single intention to an unknown destination.
related works:
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).
related works:
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.
related works:
Hair
25 x 17 cm
2018
Hair
25 x 17 cm
2018
Georgia was formed and placed on the tiles of my bathroom, while the audience had only a restricted view of the work via the partially open door. This piece – on view during Cool Loneliness – is a personal homage to Georgia O’Keeffe’s body of work and Marcel Duchamp’s Etant Donnés (1946-66). This piece is a bitter-sweet praise to my own hair and the cycle of life. A way to say goodbye
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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.
related works:
Watercolor on paper
Variable dimensions, 29.7 x 21 cm each
Ongoing
Watercolor on paper
Variable dimensions, 29.7 x 21 cm each
Ongoing
Spells is a text writing system that I developed based on the structure of stencil lettering: a ready-to-use plastic sheet consisting of the whole alphabet.Since Summer 2017 I have been making watercolor drawings of words – carriers of meanings – on paper. When drawing a word, when spelling it, the letters are forced on the paper according to the stencil’s structure. Depending on the spelling, one stencil can form the whole or a part of a word. Once a letter repeats the drawing continues one level below. As I draw the words chronologically, letter after letter, the different intensities of the watercolor range from opacity to increased transparency, suggesting the order of the reading. The choice of words is both calculated and intuitive. My sources vary from books, podcasts, conversations, dictionaries, newspapers, etc. Sometimes a word stays solo or can lead to a pairing or longer sequence. In order for me to have an account of this collection of words, or as I refer to them: “words in my possession”, I have an alphabetic book where I keep a record of each word.
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