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
Glow-in-the-dark paint on A4 Xerox copies
Performance, Installation, Sequence of drawings
Variable dimensions and presentation formats
Since 2006
Glow-in-the-dark paint on A4 Xerox copies
Performance, Installation, Sequence of drawings
Variable dimensions and presentation formats
Since 2006
The space is dark.
One copy machine, one standard piece of paper, glow-in-the-dark paint and a brush.The lid of the copy machine is open and it’s going to stay that way for the duration of the event. A brushstroke is applied to one piece of paper, crossing it horizontally. The paint is wet. When the paper is placed on the machine it’s done without touching the scanning surface – a few millimeters above the glass so as not to leave a trace.Once the copy button is pressed, the scanning light briefly illuminates the space, and charging the glow-in-the-dark paint. A copy is made. Let’s call it: Copy no. 1. The original piece of paper is placed aside. It glows in the dark space.Now a glow-in-the-dark brushstroke is applied to Copy no. 1, which is then placed on the copy machine – without touching its scanning surface. A flash of light illuminates the space once more as the scan-charge-copy happens. The glowing Copy no. 1 is placed next to the original piece of paper.This repetitive process continues, as a sequence of drawings emerges. Each one depending on its predecessor. Each in its own fading countdown. The last copy remains with no glow-in-the-dark layer on it: the promise of an infinite process.
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
related works:
250 vinyl copies, including an exclusive edition of 25 one of kind sleeves with glow-in-the-dark paint and tote bag
2016
250 vinyl copies, including an exclusive edition of 25 one of kind sleeves with glow-in-the-dark paint and tote bag
2016
This album’s artwork and design were created for South of Somewhere, the first solo album by musician Anat Spiegel. The image is an adaptation from my glow-in-the-dark drawing series As Long As. It includes an exclusive edition of 25 one of a kind sleeves with glow-in-the-dark paint and tote bag.
To listen to the album, click here.
Vinyl Limited Edition (incl. Digital Album) €65 plus shipping
Price and availability subject to change as the edition sells out
related works:
Limited edition of 100 + 5AP tote bags, numbered
Glow-in-the-dark paint on organic cotton. Each bag is unique with a hand-painted brushstroke
42 x 38 cm (handles 70 cm long)
2017/2018
Limited edition of 100 + 5AP tote bags, numbered
Glow-in-the-dark paint on organic cotton. Each bag is unique with a hand-painted brushstroke
42 x 38 cm (handles 70 cm long)
2017/2018
This limited edition of tote bags is an extension of the glow-in-the-dark drawing series As Long As (2009). Each tote is unique with a hand-painted brushstroke applied directly on black cotton. The paint glows bright blue in the dark after being charged with light.
€50 plus shipping
Price and availability subject to change as the edition sells out
The research for this edition was made possible with the support of Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunt (AFK).
related works:
Digital print
24 x 18 cm
2007
Digital print
24 x 18 cm
2007
Neither the street lamp nor the sun are in full brightness. One is fading in and one is fading out. While on a beach walk in Israel at sun-set hour I noticed a street lamp turning on in parallel to the sun setting. I took a snapshot of this still life in motion – a full spectrum of colors, a daily shifting alteration between a natural phenomenon and an electronic light source.
related works:
Sound installation, melody card module, space corner
9 x 4 x 0.5 cm, variable durations
2007
Sound installation, melody card module, space corner
9 x 4 x 0.5 cm, variable durations
2007
The melody card module was originally used in greeting cards: a small six pin processor is programmed with a melody to be played back through a piezo speaker. A lithium button cell provides the power and a leaf switch closes when the card is opened turning the music on. Here, the module is installed in the corner of the gallery space at 90 degrees, resulting in an extract of the song Home, Sweet Home being played in a loop. This process will last until either the battery runs out or the walls of the space are no longer standing still.An outcome of the audio installation is FLATTEN SOUND made especially for The Book of Intensions, Issue 4 of F.R.David. Here, the melody card module is scanned and printed on a double spread – inspired by the image-editing software Photoshop’s term “flatten image” where the individual layers of an image are merged into one.
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