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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

EDUCATION

2003-2004 Carnegie Mellon University, School of art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2000-2005 École Nationale Supérieur des Beaux-Arts, Paris, FR

SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2018 Cool Loneliness, as part of Home Sequence, Home, Amsterdam, NL
2014 Durational Boundaries, as part of ICA@50: Pleasing Artists and Publics Since 1963, ICA, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2013 Absolute Countdown, Western Front, Vancouver, CA
2011 Attachment, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, NL
2011 The Armory, with Anna Bjerger, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, NYC, USA
2010 Darker than light, with Danny Yahav-Brown, Sommer Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, IL
2009 Empty orchestra, in collaboration with Robin Vanbesien, Speedy wash, Wiels, Brussels, BE
2009 On temporary loan, De Inkijk, Amsterdam, NL
2009 :-)-: Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, NL

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020 Open Skies, as part of Loving Art, Making Art, Tel-Aviv, IL
2020 Poeticizing Leisure, Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, Amsterdam, NL
2020 Viral Self-Portraits, online, MG+MSUM, Ljubljana, SI
2020 Chapter 3Hree, Het Hem, Zandaam, NL
2020 Leaf, Limited Edition Art Fair, Prints and Multiples, Fondation Boghossian – Villa Empain, Brussles, BE
2019 Flowers of Our Land, The Israeli Centre for Digital Art, Holon, IL
2018 Unwilling: Exercises in Melancholy, Haverford College, PA, USA
2018 Multiples and Editions, Galerie Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam, NL
2018 The Merry-go-round, part 2, Juliette Jongma Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2018 Painting the Night, screening, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Paris, FR
2017 Balzers / Blasons, Collectif La Valise, Nantes, FR
2016 Launch Sites, The Israeli Centre for Digital Art, Holon, IL
2016 Intimacy, Lost & Found, Kattenkabinet, Amsterdam, NL
2016 Anarchic Infrastructure, puntWG, Amsterdam, NL
2015 Ephemeral Art in the Landscape, Environmental Art Biennale, I-Park Foundation, CT, USA
2015 Sfear Fan Ynset, Beetsterzwaag’s 1st Triennial, NL
2015 N A PRIS LES DÉS, Air de Paris, Paris, FR
2015 N A PRIS LES DÉS, 43 rue des Panoyaux, Paris, FR
2015 Opposite the other side, Sommer Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, IL
2015 Partial Presence, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
2015 Invitation to the Blues, puntWG, Amsterdam, NL (Curator: Roi Alter)
2014 Dark Times, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
2014 ĐİĽƐƬŤÂƝŤƎƑÓÑƮ ~ Į MİƓĤŤ ŁĨƘÉ YÓŪ, screening, V&A Museum, London, UK
2013 The Celeste Prize, ex-Bibli, Rome, IT
2013 The Age of Collage, Gestalten Space, Berlin, DE
2012 Other Lives, Bloomfield Science Museum, Jerusalem, IL
2012 Only parts of us will ever touch parts of others, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, FR
2012 Everything’s alright forever, Paradise Row Gallery, London, UK
2012 IBG2011:Ins Blickfeld geruckt, Galerie de Multiples, Paris, FR
2011 2001-2011: Soudain, Déjà, Galeries d’exposition ENSBA, Paris, FR
2011 No color in your cheeks unless the wind lashes your face, online, IOP
2011 Summer Show, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, NL
2011 The end of History, Galerie Speckstrasse & Kutscherhaus, Hamburg, DE
2010 Grandfather paradox, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
2010 Grandfather Paradox, On-Off Artprojects, Hamburg, DE
2010 I’m not here. An exhibition without Francis Alÿs, de Appel, Amsterdam, NL
2010 “Quelle énergie mettons-nous à transformer les choses, avec un plaisir non dissimulé”, La Générale Manufacture, Sèvres, FR
2010 Ins Blickfeld Geruck, Institut Francais, Berlin, DE
2009 The 2nd biennial of contemporary art, The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, IL
2009 The cast of shadows, Access Gallery, Vancouver, CA
2009 The twin paradox, Contributed, Studio for the Arts, Berlin, DE
2008 Who’s missing, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, NL
2008 Second life, La Générale Manufacture, Sèvres, FR
2008 Master Humphrey’s clock, Het Gebouw, Leidsche Rijn (through De Appel Arts Centre), NL
2008 Offspring, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL
2008 Abstraction surface air, screening, Le Georges, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR
2008 Sun shine shine, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem, NL
2006 The end, &nbsp, Paris, FR
2006 Under construction, &nbsp, Paris, FR
2006 La fabrique du dessin, Galeries d’exposition Beaux-Arts, Paris, FR
2006 Kaleidoscope, Galeries d’exposition Beaux-Arts, Paris, FR
2006 Attentifs ensemble, Attitudes, Geneva, CH
2005 Je partage votre point de vue, La Générale, Paris, FR
2005 Première vue, Passage du Retz, Paris, FR

CURATORIAL projects

2014-2018 puntWG, Amsterdam, NL (Artistic committee)
2014 Status, puntWG, Amsterdam, NL (Exhibition)
2011 Zimmer for FAB, Kunsthuis SYB, Beetsterzwaag, NL (Series of residencies, publication)

RESIDENCIES and PROGRAMS

2022 Arad Contemporary Art Center, Arad, IL
2021 Artport, Tel Aviv, IL
2021 Artists Residence Herzliya, Herzliya, IL
2019 Villa Empain, Fondation Boghossian, Brussels, BE
2015 I-Park Foundation, CT, USA
2015 Kunsthuis SYB, with Anat Spiegel; Noon & Ain, Beetsterzwaag, NL
2013 Western Front, Vancouver, CA
2011 American Academy in Rome, IT 
2011 Zimmer for FAB, Kunsthuis SYB, Beetsterzwaag, NL
2006-2008 De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL

AWARDS and GRANTS

2022 The Independent Creators Fund, IL
2018-2022 Mondriaan Fonds, NL
2016 Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK), NL
2014 Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK), NL
2013 1st Prize winner, Celeste Prize for Painting and Graphics, IT 
2013 Mondriaan Fonds, NL
2013 Ostrovsky Family Foundation, USA
2013 Schurmann-Krant Foundation, NL
2011 Fonds BKVB, NL
2011 Maison Descartes, Institut Français des Pays-Bas, NL
2011 Fonds BKVB, NL
2006-2008 Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, NL
2003 Colin-Lefranc Foundation, FR

OTHER

2020 Eva by Studio Minailo (Art work and website)
2018 Departing Landscapes by Keren Levi (Art work)
2017 Vibrations, Balzers-Blasons, Collectif La Valise, Nantes, FR (Multiple)
2016 South of Somewhere by Anat Spiegel (Sleeve design, special edition)
2011 Persona by Studio Minailo (Stage design)

EDUCATIONAL and ORGANIZATIONAL

Since 2019 Board member, puntWG, Amsterdam, NL
Since 2015 Board member, Tohu magazine
2014-2017 Guest tutor, Fine Arts, 3rd year, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, NL
2014 External committee, Fine Arts, final exam, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, NL

TALKS

2018 “Unwilling: Exercises in Melancholy”, Haverford College, PA, USA
2016 “Anarchic Infrastructure Symposium”, puntWG, Amsterdam, NL
2015 “Historical Materialisms Symposium”, Teylers Museum, Haarlem, NL
2014 “Ask us anything”, with Anat Spiegel; Noon & Ain, part of “MAKING IT: Art Practices from ARC to industry”, Emily Car University, Vancouver, CA
2014 “Conversation About Nothing”, ICA, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2014 “Ask us anything”, with Anat Spiegel; Noon & Ain, puntWG, Amsterdam, NL
2012 “Zimmer for FAB”, Kunstvlaai, Amsterdam, NL
2011 American Academy in Rome, IT
2011 “Attachment”, Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, NL
2011 “Zimmer for FAB”, Galerie Jeanine Hofland, Amsterdam, NL
2011 “Zimmer for FAB”, Kunsthuis SYB, Beetsterzwaag, NL
2010 “I’m not here. An exhibition without Francis Alÿs”, de Appel, Amsterdam, NL

PUBLICATIONS and CATALOGUES

Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime (the touching version), Politics of Love (Long distance relationship), Tohu Magazine, online, 2022
The Sorrow the Joy Brings, Inventing Nature Issue 30, Harama on-line mafazine, 2020
Nanopoetica, with Anat Spiegel; Noon & Ain, Hebrew Anthology of Conceptual Poetry, 2019
Recalculating Route, Futures Issue 25, Harama on-line mafazine, 2019
Unwilling: Exercises in Melancholy, Haverford College, 2018
In Recent Years, the Mud has Increased, Chain Reaction Issue 21, Harama on-line magazine, 2018
Dark Times, exhibition catalogue, Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, 2015 
Celeste Prize, prize catalogue, 2013 
The Age of Collage, Gestalten, 2013
Only parts of us will ever touch parts of others, exhibition catalogue, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, 2013
Ecstatic+Streaming, artist book, with essays by Noa Giniger and Yael Messer, self-published, 2012
“Index/Assembly”, Master Humphrey’s Clock, exhibition catalogue, de Appel, 2011 
2001-2011: Soudan, Déjà, exhibition catalogue, Beaux-arts de Paris les editions, 2011 
By Air-Mail, with Halina Kliem, Issue 23, Kiosk online, 2011
“Legal Aliens”, Programma, Spring Issue, May 2010
I’m not here. An exhibition without Francis Alys, exhibition catalogue, de Appel, 2010
“Anachronisms & Interferences”, Cathedral Magazine, issue 3, May 2009
“The Obsession, The Session”, DIY/ Fanzine, Issue 7, Amsterdam, March 2009
The Herzliya Biennial, catalogue, Issue 4 of Picnic Magazine, 2009
“The cast of shadows”, Parallel Guidebook, Issue 3, 2009
“The Book of Intensions”, F.R. David, de Appel, Issue 4, Amsterdam, Summer 2008
Offspring, catalogue, Stichting Ateliers 63, 2008
“Attentifs ensemble”, Attitudes, 2006
Kaléidoscope, catalogue, Ensba. Diffusion Paris – Musées, 2006
PPR Archives, Paris Project Room, Diffusion Paris – Museum, FR, 2005
Première vue, 4th edition, Passage de Retz, Paris, 2005
“Untitled”, with Shana Moulton, Magazine 42 Ma’alot, Issue 46, Summer 2004