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
Wall carving
14 x 430 cm
2014
Black gel ink on a Moleskine daily planner
25 x 29 cm, framed
2014
Wall carving
14 x 430 cm
2014
Black gel ink on a Moleskine daily planner
25 x 29 cm, framed
2014
An isolated phrase from Hebrew poet Leah Goldberg’s poem There is No Mercy reads: “Years go by and more words are forbidden”. Due to its isolation, the origin of this prohibition remains unclear: is this an internal interdiction imposed by the speaker (the poet or the artist), or perhaps an external one?This work first appeared in my solo show Durational Boundaries as part of a series of solo exhibitions celebrating the 50th anniversary of the ICA in Philadelphia. The sentence was inscribed into the exhibition’s wall, performing as part of the exhibition structure, it confronts its own unstable and fragile content.Later that year, another version appeared in the exhibition Dark Times where the sentence was written by hand in Hebrew onto the page of a Moleskine notebook I have used in recent years as a personal journal
related works:
Dictionaries, metal bookends, wood shelf
Variable dimensions [here sequence #2: 24 x 85 x 22 cm]
Ongoing (Since 2004)
Dictionaries, metal bookends, wood shelf
Variable dimensions [here sequence #2: 24 x 85 x 22 cm]
Ongoing (Since 2004)
Everything Near Becomes Distant is an exploration of meaning and words as they are translated from one language to another. The work consists of dictionaries arranged in a row, each including words in one language with their equivalents in another language. As Spanish is translated to Romanian, Romanian to German, German to Indonesian, Indonesian to Dutch and so on, the flow through the dictionaries offers a chain of meanings, which are not necessarily equivalent. The collection is eclectic in terms of publication year, edition and category. The differences between each dictionary in terms of vocabulary illustrate the difficulty of faithful translation, traveling from a single intention to an unknown destination.
related works:
With Anat Spiegel
Spoken word poetry
Lifelong project
With Anat Spiegel
Spoken word poetry
Lifelong project
Spoken word poetry duo NOON & AIN is visual artist Noa Giniger and vocalist-composer Anat Spiegel, who explore feminine and existential topics through a personal, friendship-based dialogue. We actively participate in the development of a digital democracy that encourages autonomy and collaboration with a DIY approach. Together, we create poems from our own digital chats and emails. As our functional communication turns into pure poetry, a non-linear alternative intimate narrative emerges, reshuffling art and the everyday. Our life-long collaboration started during a residency in 2011. We named the duo NOON & AIN after the first letters of our names in Hebrew. Through the years we have shifted between different composition methods: from the usage of Cut Up technique in our early poems to the more recent endeavor into Exquisite Cadaver. We always keep the duo’s signature dialogical colors: red and black, each colour representing the words of either Noa or Anat. We usually work in Hebrew, our mother tongue, using English translations as another setting where we play with technology and humanity.The website www.noonandain.com displays our unusual creative process through texts, audio recordings, choreographed videos and a variety of behind-the-scenes material.
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