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
Website [www.recalculatingroute.info]
Screen size
Online since 31.12.2008
Website [www.recalculatingroute.info]
Screen size
Online since 31.12.2008
Every night at midnight in my local time-zone, a new headline is posted on the website – generic words of wisdom and advice that have been culled from a daily horoscope allegedly created in response to the date and time of my birth. Black text on a white background: each entry creates an intimate encounter with a sentence so general that it becomes endlessly relatable, holding potential meaning for every reader to identify. As the proverbs and guidelines offered by Recalculating Route change daily, there is no access to the previous sentences and no opportunity to take a glance at future ones. The title of the work emerges from the vocabulary of GPS device when calculating the route to a given destination.
Recalculating Route is the first part of the online trilogy, No Time for Nostalgia [dot] Now.
Design: Sam de Groot
Production: Thijs Gadiot, Harris Blondman
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Website [www.verticalelement.faith]
Screen size
Online since 16.11.2016
Website [www.verticalelement.faith]
Screen size
Online since 16.11.2016
An endless scrolling site. Visitors to Vertical Element are first exposed to an image of an inverse mountain, taken from the world of emojicons symbolizing Mount Fuji in Japan. At the bottom of the screen, the scroll bar begins its countdown – in pixel units – towards the zero point, and from there continues an infinite ascent into the measured and numbered void. The scroll operates at a fixed internal rhythm, and while manual intervention is possible – up, down – inactivity engenders surrender to adjusting direction and speed, which are preset.
Vertical Element is the third and final part of the online trilogy, No Time for Nostalgia [dot] Noa.
The website was created following an invitation by Udi Edelman and Yael Messer (The Institute for Public Presence) to take part in Ma’arav, an online art and culture magazine dedicated to artist Ezra Orion.
Production: Harris Blondman
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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.
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