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
Laser print on paper, correction tape, frame
Variable dimensions
Unique in an edition of 25, numbered and signed. Each edition is placed inside a different standing frame
2008 – 2009
Laser print on paper, correction tape, frame
Variable dimensions
Unique in an edition of 25, numbered and signed. Each edition is placed inside a different standing frame
2008 – 2009
An outcome of the audio installation Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime (2008); the lyrics of the song Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime are printed on white paper. Only this line is visible and is interspersed with blank intervals respective to its original appearance in the song’s lyrics. The rest of the lines are erased with correction tape. Each edition is placed inside a different standing frame.
Price and availability subject to change as the edition sells out
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Video, sound, 5’43”
2006
Video, sound, 5’43”
2006
Timpanists are commonly required to tune their instruments in the middle of a piece of music. They obtain a reference pitch from a note played by another instrument in the course of the performance and then use musical intervals to arrive at the desired note. IN DEPENDENT shows a timpanist performing a written symphony – the 4th movement of Tchaikovsky’s 4th symphony op. 36. No orchestra is visible or audible on the scene. Hence the context, the melody, is absent. The orchestra is playing merely in the timpanist’s head as she is performing her written role in the piece; fragments of pulses. The timpanist becomes the soloist.
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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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Boggle board, letter dice
11 x 15 x 2 cm
2012
Boggle board, letter dice
11 x 15 x 2 cm
2012
The plural of the noun is denoted by the letter “s”. Once it is dropped, this abstract countdown has come to an end.In Summer 2011 in Paris, I saw a window shop that had the word SALE written in handwriting on its window. And below in big size were the words: “Last Days”. Only that the “s” was crossed out announcing the end of this abstract, letter based, countdown, the beginning of which; hence its end remains unknown.
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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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Photo etching on Hahnemühle 300 gsm paper
53 x 80.5 cm
Edition of 10 + 1 AP
2020
Photo etching on Hahnemühle 300 gsm paper
53 x 80.5 cm
Edition of 10 + 1 AP
2020
The limited edition titled H(Air) isolates and magnifies the flipped tree’s top and its trunk as appeared in the collage The Sorrow the Joy Brings (2010). The source is an engraving from the 19th century depicting Napoleon’s grave below weeping willows trees.
This edition was produced at The Gottesman Etching Centre.
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