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
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
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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).
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Garden solar lights, glass and wood showcase with permanent light, two daylight fluorescent tubes
Vitrine: 156 x 140 x 50 cm
Ongoing (Since 2008)
Garden solar lights, glass and wood showcase with permanent light, two daylight fluorescent tubes
Vitrine: 156 x 140 x 50 cm
Ongoing (Since 2008)
A garden solar light is placed where its solar panel can collect the maximum amount of full, direct sunlight. During the day, the solar panel converts sunlight into electricity and recharges the battery. The more sunlight it receives; the more power can be stored for the light to use at nighttime. Once night falls, a sensor turns the light on automatically. The solar lights in Ongoing Collection are placed in a glass showcase illuminated by daylight temperature fluorescent lamps. Here, night never falls and the collection never sees daylight. This artificial light does not operate merely to make the collection visible but to incessantly energize it and consequently prevent the lights from turning on. Every time the work is exhibited, a new and varied combination of the growing solar light collection is presented.
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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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Single slide, slide projector
Variable dimensions and durations
2008
Single slide, slide projector
Variable dimensions and durations
2008
Don’t Convert the Scientific Problem to an Insignificant Love Story is composed of a single photographic slide projection. The image is a frozen frame from Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 film Solarisin which the dead body of the protagonist’s wife lies on the floor: a moment after she had committed suicide and a minute before she will come back to life. The text in the title of the work is the English subtitle which appears against this backdrop. Isolated from its continuity, this piece of text – said in the film by Snaut the scientist to Kelvin the psychologist – calls for a clear and hierarchal dichotomy between science and emotion. During the period of the exhibition, the intense light of the slide projector’s lamp scorches the slide causing it to gradually fade.
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Exhibition with Bas Jan Ader, Halina Kliem, Jennifer Tee
Curated by Noa Giniger
puntWG, Amsterdam, NL
2014
Exhibition with Bas Jan Ader, Halina Kliem, Jennifer Tee
Curated by Noa Giniger
puntWG, Amsterdam, NL
2014
The word ‘status’, by definition, refers to a given now which does not necessarily guarantee its relevance for the moments to follow. Therefore, it expresses a position that is subject to constant examination and change. Social media has appropriated the word status and incorporated it into today’s jargon as a space for sharing one’s feelings, thoughts and actions with friends and followers — ‘What is on your mind?’. This endless verbose time-line is an attempt to not let any moment be forgotten or left behind.Status brings together works by three artists in which text – the written word – performs as solid matter and confronts its own unstable and fragile content. Words are presented in different techniques: installation, video and sculpture, thus offering different encounters with text; hand-written, typed, and engraved. The pieces shift between temporary and permanent, laconic and wordy, restless and stillness, awareness and oblivion, spirit and matte. Thoughts Unsaid, Then Forgotten (1973) by Bas Jan Ader is a wall-text installation, illuminated by a lamp and paired with flowers in a vase. This reconstruction of the piece is following drafted instructions; the sentence is traced, based on the original handwriting. The decaying flowers and the text about forgetting, emphasize Ader’s attraction to the inescapability of loss in fleeting moments. Thoughts will be forgotten, whether unsaid or spoken aloud, and Ader’s laconic phrase does not guarantee otherwise.The two videos from the series Real World (2007-2008) by Halina Kliem are fast and intensive. The restless typing creates a rhythm that is occasionally disrupted by re-writing and correcting. Each video lasts a few minutes before repeating itself. Here, the linear time-line is replaced by an eternal loop. Expressed as an inner monologue, Real World explores the boundaries between art and life, fiction and truth, and as the videos are simultaneously watched and read, the text turns into a form of poetry.As if observing from the mezzanine, a collection of works by Jennifer Tee is displayed; nine pairs of ceramic urns, colorful in a spectrum of glazed soft pastels. The sculptures, among which are Thought~Forms, Wild~Patience, and Occult~Geometry (all 2014), are arranged on a long table. They are a hybrid of a tomb and a totem, striving for eternal duration beyond decay. One word is stamped on each of them. Isolated but paired, the urns do not tell a narrative but a riddle. Hence, by placing them outside of their regular context, the words resonate different vibrations that transcend their common use.
Status was made possible with the support of Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunt (AFK).
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