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
2004
Slide, slide projector, timer
Projected image: 10 x 15 cm
2004
Slide, slide projector, timer
Projected image: 10 x 15 cm
A found scene in the suburbs of Philadelphia; a shadow in the form of a house is created by the angle of the sun on the façade of this building. The projector is programmed to turn on for one minute every 24 hours, at the precise hour when the photo was originally taken. The rest of the time, the projector is off.
related works:
Digital print
24 x 18 cm
2007
Digital print
24 x 18 cm
2007
Neither the street lamp nor the sun are in full brightness. One is fading in and one is fading out. While on a beach walk in Israel at sun-set hour I noticed a street lamp turning on in parallel to the sun setting. I took a snapshot of this still life in motion – a full spectrum of colors, a daily shifting alteration between a natural phenomenon and an electronic light source.
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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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Archival pigment print
34 x 25 cm (framed 41 x 32 cm)
2017
Archival pigment print
34 x 25 cm (framed 41 x 32 cm)
2017
An unexpected encounter with a materialized version of Vertical Element on a beach in Greece. Created by an anonymous maker and photographed by me.
related works:
Mirror on tripod, switched off light bulb, sunlight
Variable dimensions
2005
Archival pigment print
80 x 120 cm
2005
Mirror on tripod, switched off light bulb, sunlight
Variable dimensions
2005
Archival pigment print
80 x 120 cm
2005
Catching (day) Light was made in a private residency in Paris: via a mirror placed on the floor, a ray of sunlight illuminates the light bulb until the ray moves away and the bulb is turned off again. While in the another space, applying the same trick, a ray of sunlight fills in the middle of the ceiling molding ornament for a short period of the day.
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Postcard, archival pigment print
43.5 x 30 cm, framed
2009
Postcard, archival pigment print
43.5 x 30 cm, framed
2009
A found postcard of a fountain presented alongside a photograph of the real location in another era, revealing the changes in water-streams over the years.While in a secondhand bookshop in Berlin, I came across a postcard of a fountain with a golden deer statue atop a high column. With neither name nor address, I eventually located it with the help of local people in Berlin: Stag Fountain located in the neighbourhood of Schönberg. I visited the fountain and took a photo of it from the same angle.
related works:
Photo series
2004
Photo series
2004
In 2003, while an exchange student from Paris at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, I met artist Shana Moulton. This encounter led to a photo series that explores the unique wardrobe of Shana’s alter-ego Cynthia.
related works:
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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