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
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
related works:
Website [www.absolutecountdown.com]
Screen size
Online since 31.12.2008
Website [www.absolutecountdown.com]
Screen size
Online since 31.12.2008
A countdown that starts at ten seconds and counts time in absolute value potentially forever, or as long as the browser window remains open.
Absolute Countdown is the second part of the online trilogy, No Time for Nostalgia [dot] Now.
Design: Sam de Groot
Production: Thijs Gadiot, Harris Blondman
related works:
Engraved text on trees
Variable dimensions
2015
Engraved text on trees
Variable dimensions
2015
Both Sides Now (On Shuffle) is composed of eleven titles engraved on the bark of different trees around the park. The titles are taken from Joni Mitchell’s album Both Sides Now which traces the arc of the modern romantic relationship. In the words of musician Larry Klein: “from initial flirtation through optimistic consummation, metamorphosing into disillusionment, ironic despair, and finally resolving in the philosophical overview of acceptance and the probability of the cycle repeating itself”. The work is named after the last track which shares its title with the album, and is the only one not engraved.Spread around the park without any precise indications of the location of each engraved tree, the work takes on the associative gesture of a popular music technology and “shuffles” the titles of the album’s songs around the park. I chose not to give any precise indication of their locations of each engraved tree in order to offer the visiting public an unplanned encounter with each title; an intimate experience.These botanical relics have a limited lifespan; etched into living wood, their existence is typically limited to that of the tree. Their form shifts slowly over time. As the seasons transition, this organic work changes constantly, without my control. The work also raises questions around marking and possessing landscape, while offering a poignant response to the often male-dominated tradition of Land Art.
related works:
A daily alternating installation, various objects
De Inkijk and different locations around Amsterdam
2009
A daily alternating installation, various objects
De Inkijk and different locations around Amsterdam
2009
On Temporary Loan comprises a selection of items from twenty-one windowsill displays, collected from homes in different parts of Amsterdam. Every day another display was unveiled and exhibited in its original state. While these objects were on display at de Inkijk space, a sign was placed on the empty windowsill of the objects’ owner, indicating the objects’ absence to passersby. The title of the work refers to the signs that hang in museums when a particular work from the permanent collection is on loan.On Temporary Loan was the fourth and last project for The Precarious State, a series of projects that was initiated by SKOR in 2008 and held at De Inkijk reflecting upon the concept of identity.
related works:
With Robin Vanbesien
Site specific installation, mixed media, website (active for the duration of the project only)
2009
With Robin Vanbesien
Site specific installation, mixed media, website (active for the duration of the project only)
2009
Empty Orchestra took place in two synchronized locations: Square St. Denis in Brussels and the website [www.PlacestDenis-SintDenijsplein.be] that was active for the duration of the project only. The term “Empty Orchestra” is the definition for the Japanese word “karaoke”. The concept started as a form of entertainment in which amateur singers sing along with recorded music using a microphone and public address system. Today, karaoke service is no longer found only in special bars but can be downloaded and uploaded on mobile phones.For the duration of the project an instrumental karaoke version of a song was played at set times (09:00, 13:00, 17:00) from the existing mega-phones located in the square and the nearby streets. Every day a different song played. In parallel the lyrics of the song of the day were streamed on the website: without melody only the words appeared in sync with the song’s tempo.The physical elements located on the Square St. Denis functioned as a décor for the project. The launderette’s display mirrored the plants seen in the Square. The next-door billboard feature da homogeneous green surface that suggested both a green surface and at the same time a Green Screen with the potential to reveal more images behind it, other places. Combined with the daily soundtrack of the square, these elements emphasized the potential of the square to host multiple scenes and prevented the site from becoming static.Empty Orchestra was the fifth project as part of Wiels hors les mursprogram, held in Speedy Wash at Square St. Denis.
related works:
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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