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
Glow-in-the-dark paint on A4 Xerox copies
Performance, Installation, Sequence of drawings
Variable dimensions and presentation formats
Since 2006
Glow-in-the-dark paint on A4 Xerox copies
Performance, Installation, Sequence of drawings
Variable dimensions and presentation formats
Since 2006
The space is dark.
One copy machine, one standard piece of paper, glow-in-the-dark paint and a brush.The lid of the copy machine is open and it’s going to stay that way for the duration of the event. A brushstroke is applied to one piece of paper, crossing it horizontally. The paint is wet. When the paper is placed on the machine it’s done without touching the scanning surface – a few millimeters above the glass so as not to leave a trace.Once the copy button is pressed, the scanning light briefly illuminates the space, and charging the glow-in-the-dark paint. A copy is made. Let’s call it: Copy no. 1. The original piece of paper is placed aside. It glows in the dark space.Now a glow-in-the-dark brushstroke is applied to Copy no. 1, which is then placed on the copy machine – without touching its scanning surface. A flash of light illuminates the space once more as the scan-charge-copy happens. The glowing Copy no. 1 is placed next to the original piece of paper.This repetitive process continues, as a sequence of drawings emerges. Each one depending on its predecessor. Each in its own fading countdown. The last copy remains with no glow-in-the-dark layer on it: the promise of an infinite process.
related works:
Paper collages
Variable dimensions
2010 – 2013
Paper collages
Variable dimensions
2010 – 2013
The series of collages is made from found images, each presents a landscape featuring a weeping willow tree in it. The intervention is minimal yet effective: the tree’s top is cut out and flipped around, turning the branches of the weeping willow tree upside down.
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:
Installation, black spray on wall, sunlight
Painting on the wall: 160 x 240 cm
2005
Installation, black spray on wall, sunlight
Painting on the wall: 160 x 240 cm
2005
The term “fata morgana” means more than just an optical phenomenon. The interpretation of the image is up to the fantasy of the viewer. Yet, it will always disappear once approached and will immediately reappear in the far horizon. A black painting on the wall is made. An imaginary landscape with the help of handmade stencil – a palm tree, lake and two mountains – and does not disappear once approached. A ray of sunlight, which cycles through the space daily, from the ground towards the image and away, marks time and links this seemingly motionless space to the outside world.
This work was made specifically for atelier Barbara Leisgen in ENSBA and exhibited on 21 June 2005; the summer solstice.
related works:
Photo etching on Hahnemühle 300 gsm paper
68 x 80.5 cm
Edition of 10 + 1 AP
2020
Photo etching on Hahnemühle 300 gsm paper
68 x 80.5 cm
Edition of 10 + 1 AP
2020
This limited edition shows an enlarged version of a collage from 2010 with the same title. The source of the collage is an engraving from the 19th century depicting Napoleon’s grave below weeping willows trees. The intervention is minimal yet effective: the tree’s top is manually cut out and flipped around, turning the branches of the weeping willow tree upside down.
This edition was produced at The Gottesman Etching Centre.
related works:
Photo etching on Hahnemühle 300 gsm paper
53 x 80.5 cm
Edition of 10 + 1 AP
2020
Photo etching on Hahnemühle 300 gsm paper
53 x 80.5 cm
Edition of 10 + 1 AP
2020
The limited edition titled H(Air) isolates and magnifies the flipped tree’s top and its trunk as appeared in the collage The Sorrow the Joy Brings (2010). The source is an engraving from the 19th century depicting Napoleon’s grave below weeping willows trees.
This edition was produced at The Gottesman Etching Centre.
related works: