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
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:
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.
related works:
Sound installation, melody card module, space corner
9 x 4 x 0.5 cm, variable durations
2007
Sound installation, melody card module, space corner
9 x 4 x 0.5 cm, variable durations
2007
The melody card module was originally used in greeting cards: a small six pin processor is programmed with a melody to be played back through a piezo speaker. A lithium button cell provides the power and a leaf switch closes when the card is opened turning the music on. Here, the module is installed in the corner of the gallery space at 90 degrees, resulting in an extract of the song Home, Sweet Home being played in a loop. This process will last until either the battery runs out or the walls of the space are no longer standing still.An outcome of the audio installation is FLATTEN SOUND made especially for The Book of Intensions, Issue 4 of F.R.David. Here, the melody card module is scanned and printed on a double spread – inspired by the image-editing software Photoshop’s term “flatten image” where the individual layers of an image are merged into one.
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