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:
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:
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.
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:
Two vintage chairs, cat’s nails
70 x 50 x 60 cm each chair
2015 – 2020
Two vintage chairs, cat’s nails
70 x 50 x 60 cm each chair
2015 – 2020
The work is composed of two vintage chairs that I found in the streets of Paris before moving to Amsterdam. Since 2015 the chairs have been used by Mimi my cat, to sharpen her claws. This performance of wild instincts, as she maintains her survival tools and prepares for unknown encounters, has since confronted me with automatic disapproval – watching how the chairs slowly got ruined – mixed with the pleasure of witnessing her satisfaction while doing so. Moreover, despite the apparent vandalism they underwent, I found myself being hypnotized by Mimi’s ongoing effort and the symmetrical result of her work: the soft upholstery has unraveled like two wings on both sides of each chair, while her nails got knitted in it as hidden pearls. On the occasion of the home exhibition Cool Loneliness (2018), I decided to declare the chairs as an artwork. This pronouncement was a result of reflecting on animalism, female craft, artistic labor, and ownership. In May 2020 the chairs left my home to participate in the exhibition Poeticizing Leisure at Gallery Hofland Althuis in Amsterdam. This has signalized the end of Mimi’s work; in my eyes they have reached their final touch.
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