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
related works:
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
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:
Machine embroidery
8 x 7 cm
2017
Collage, laser print
Series of 17 prints, Variable dimensions
2017
Machine embroidery
8 x 7 cm
2017
Collage, laser print
Series of 17 prints, Variable dimensions
2017
Vibrations (Silver Time/ Last Fuck) was created at the invitation of Mick Quistrebert and La Valise in Nantes for a design of a coat-of-arms to be embroidered by Les Ateliers Meresse: one of the last French companies to produce those kinds of embroideries. My composition is based on one of seventeen collages, where I use two silver paper clips (“attachments”) as clock hands positioned in various arrangements over a black and white print of a sailing scene by a Hercules Segers. The form of my coat-of-arms is a truncated heart.
For inquiry: Blazers/Blasons
related works:
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.
related works:
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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