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
Paper collages
Variable dimensions
2010 – 2013
Paper collages
Variable dimensions
2010 – 2013
The series of collages is made from found images, each presents a landscape featuring a weeping willow tree in it. The intervention is minimal yet effective: the tree’s top is cut out and flipped around, turning the branches of the weeping willow tree upside down.
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35mm film transferred to HD, sound, 5’57”
Variable dimensions
2013
35mm film transferred to HD, sound, 5’57”
Variable dimensions
2013
The film traces the attempt to uplift a weeping willow with the help of artificial wind, using industrial motion picture fans. The soundtrack is of the natural ambiance.“A film which depicts this momentary shift in the tree’s physical form and questions our associations with its appearance, and its name. In its efforts to put a weeping willow in a good mood The Sorrow the Joy Bring evokes the human will to control nature and our attempts to influence and control our own emotions. The lengths to which Giniger goes to manipulate the tree articulates our human aversion to displays of sadness. As well, the project is in conversation with the history of the creative manipulation of landscapes, from ancient gardens to contemporary land art and public performance practices.” (Jesse Birch – from the press release for the exhibition Absolute Countdown, Western Front, 2013).
This film was produced on the occasion of the exhibition Absolute Countdown at Western Front, with the support of the Ostrovsky Family Fund, Stichting Schürmann-Krant and Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society.
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Archival pigment print
100 x 150 cm, framed
2009
Archival pigment print
100 x 150 cm, framed
2009
An existing interval of two minutes between two working clocks on the facade of a church. The photograph was taken at noon with the left clock face showing one minute after noon and the right, one minute before noon. While wandering around Berlin, I noticed a two-minute difference between the two clocks on the façade of the Saint Thomas church in Kreuzberg. I returned to the site with a 35mm camera to photograph the façade at precisely 12:00. This symmetry between the clocks and the work’s palindromic title underscore both the fundamental absence of a non-disrupted “present” and the excessive presence of the past and future.
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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.
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Light installation, 15 min, daily
Dimensions variable
2009
Light installation, 15 min, daily
Dimensions variable
2009
During the exhibition :-)-: daylight was removed from the gallery and the only light sources were spotlights directed towards stacks of paper featuring the phrases “TOO MUCH”, “TOO LITTLE”, “TOO LATE”. This theatrical and artificial ambiance was interrupted daily when, fifteen minutes before the exhibition closed, all the lights in the space were switched on. A signal for closing time.Controllar, an experimental pop duo, were commissioned to compose a piece to be performed live in the space at the same time as INTERVENTION. Their composition was inspired by this moment of “lights-on”, a familiar finale in bars and clubs at the end of a night out. As soon as the performance ended, Controllar left and the gallery was immediately closed.
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Keyboard characters
Variable dimensions
2009
Keyboard characters
Variable dimensions
2009
A blend of two emotions into one new emoticon. This emotional landscape was the title of my solo exhibition at Galerie Gabriel Rolt in 2009.
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