Michail Grobman

Michail Grobman (Russian: Михаил Гробман, Hebrew: מיכאיל גרובמן‎, born 1939) is an artist and a poet working in Israel and Russia. He is father to Hollywood producer Lati Grobman and Israeli architect Yasha Jacob Grobman.

Notable footnotes

• 1939 – Born in Moscow.
• 1960s – Active member of The Second Russian Avant-Garde movement in the Soviet Union.
• 1967 – Member of Moscow Artists Union.
• 1971 – Emigrates to Israel and settles in Jerusalem.
• 1975 – Founded the Leviathan group and art periodical (in Russian).
• Since 1983, he lives and works mainly in Tel Aviv.

Awards

• In 2001, Grobman was a co-recipient of the Dizengoff Prize for Painting.^[1]

Selected solo exhibitions

• 2007 – Last Skies, Loushy & Peter Art & Projects, Tel Aviv (cat. text: Marc Scheps)
• 2006 – Creation From Chaos to Cosmos, Bar-David Museum of Fine Art and Judaica, Kibbutz Baram (cat. text: Sorin Heller)
• 2002 – The Last Sky, installation, Tsveta Zuzoritch pavilion, Belgrad (cat. text: Irina Subotitch)
• 1999 – Michail Grobman: Works 1960–1998, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg (cat. texts: Evgenija Petrova, Marc Scheps, Lola Kantor-Kazovsky, Michail German)
• 1998 – Picture = Symbol + Concept, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya (cat. texts: Lola Kantor-Kazovsky, Marina Genkina)
• 1995 – Password and Image, University Gallery, Haifa University (Leaflet)
• 1990 – Michail Grobman, Tova Osman Gallery, Tel Aviv
• 1989 – Michail Grobman, Tova Osman Gallery, Tel Aviv
• 1989 – The Beautiful Sixties in Moscow (Jointly with Ilia Kabakov), The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv (cat. text: Mordechai Omer)
• 1988 – Michail Grobman: Künstler und Sammler, Art Museum, Bochum, Germany (cat. text: Peter Spielmann)
• 1987 – Messiah, installation and performance in the streets of Jerusalem (cat.)
• 1985 – Khlebnikov 100, performance in the streets of Acre, Jerusalem, Tiberias and Tel-Aviv
• 1984 – Michail Grobman, Zvi Noam Gallery, Beit Levik, Tel Aviv
• 1977 – Michail Grobman, Spertus Museum, Chicago
• 1977 – Performance in Judean desert
• 1973 – Michail Grobman, Negev Museum, Beer Sheva
• 1973 – Michail Grobman, Beth Uri and Rami Museum, Ashdot Yaacov (cat.)
• 1972 – Michail Grobman, Nora Gallery, Jerusalem
• 1971 – Michail Grobman: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (cat. text: Haim Gamzu)
• 1966 – Michail Grobman, Projects Engineering Institute, Moscow
• 1965 – Michail Grobman, Artists House, Moscow
• 1965 – Michail Grobman, Energy Institute, Moscow
• 1965 – Michail Grobman, History Institute, Moscow
• 1965 – Michail Grobman, Usti-nad-Orlicy Theatre, Czechoslovakia (leaflet text: Dushan Konetchni)
• 1959 – Michail Grobman, Mukhina Art Institute, Leningrad

Selected group exhibitions

• 2007 – Jews of Struggle – The Jewish National Movement in the USSR, 1967–1989, Bet Hatefutsoth, Tel Aviv (cat.)
• 2007 – Rebellious Art: Painters of the Second Russian Avant-garde from Kenda and Jacob Bar Gera's Collection, Museum of History of City Lodz, Lodz
• 2007 – La Deuxieme Avant-garde Moscou 1950–1970, Galerie Minotaure, Paris (cat. text: Lola Kantor-Kazovsky)
• 2007 – Sotz – Art, Political art in Russia, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
• 2006 – Black Coffee, Beit Hagefen, Haifa (cat. text: Hana Kofler)
• 2006 – Times of change, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg (cat.)
• 2005 – Avantgarde im Untergrund, Russische Nonkonformisten aus der Sammlung Bar-Gera, Kunstmuseum, Bern (cat. text: Evgeny Barabanov) Etched Voices, Yad-Vashem, Jerusalem (cat. texts: Judith Shen Dar, Sorin Heller)
• 2005 – Accomplices, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (cat. text: Andrei Erofeev)
• 2004 – Poeta pingens, The State Museum of Literature, Moscow (cat.)
• 2004 – Cosmopalit, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva (cat. text: Haim Maor)
• 2003 – Das Recht des Bildes, Judische Perspektiven in der Modernen Kunst,Museum Bochum (cat.)
• 2003 – Persecuted art & artists, Under Totalitarian Regimes in Europe during the 20th Century, Monart Museum, Ashdod (cat.)
• 2003 – Yes do yourself..., Regeneration of Judaism in Israeli art, Zman Omanut, Tel Aviv (cat. text: Gideon Ofrat)
• 2002 – Matrimony, Beit Hagefen, Haifa (cat. text: Hana Kofler)
• 2001 – Children, Beit Hagefen, Haifa (cat. text: Hana Kofler)
• 2000 – Green not Cement, Artists Follow Poet H. N. Bialik, Tel-Aviv (cat. text: Doron Polak)
• 2000 – Nonkonformisten 1955–1988, Markishes Museum, Witten (cat.)
• 2000 – The Moscow Underground to Jindřzich Chalupecký, Galeria Ztihla Klika, Praha (cat. text: Jiři Šetlik)
• 1999 – Open House, Beit Hagefen, Haifa (cat. text: Hana Kofler)
• 1999 – Top 2000, Beit Hagefen, Haifa (cat. text: Hana Kofler)
• 1998 – Aspects of Israeli Art of the 70s: 1. The Boundaries of Language, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
• 1998 – 2.Tikkun, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv University (cat. texts: Mordechai Omer, Ellen Ginton)
• 1998 – Forbidden Art, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Miami University Art Museum (Cat. texts: Alexander Borovsky, Evgeny Barabanov, John Bolt, Irena Vrubel-Golubkina)
• 1996–97 – Nonconformists: The Second Russian Avant-garde, from the Bar Gera Collection, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg; The State Tretyakov Gallery,Moscow; State Gallery, Frankfurt; Albers Museum, Bottrop, Germany; Kunsthalle, Leverkusen, Germany (cat. texts: Hans Peter Ruse, Evgeny Barabanov, Alexander Borovsky)
• 1996 – Ketav: Flesh and Word in Israeli Art, Ackland Art Museum, North Carolina (cat. texts: Jerry Bolas, Gideon Ofrat, Michael Sgan-Cohen)
• 1995 – Our Century, Ludwig Museum, Cologne (cat. texts: Marc Scheps, Barbara Tiemann, Stephanie M. Baumann, Jens Bove, Gerard Goodrow, Martin Spanting)
• 1994 – The Printer's Imprint, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (cat. texts: Meira Perry-Lehmann, Arik Kilemnik)
• 1994 – Anxiety, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan (cat. texts: Miriam Tovia-Boneh, Ilana Tenenbaum)
• 1994 – Europa Europa: The Century of the Avant-garde in Central and Eastern Europe, Kunsthalle, Bonn (cat. texts: Pontus Hulten, Karl Ruhrberg, Richard Stanislavsky, Cristopher Brockhouse, Norman Davies, Sergei Averinzew, Krysztof Pomian)
• 1993 – Understandable Art, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan (cat. texts: Miriam Tovia-Boneh, Yevgeny Steiner)
• 1993 – From Malevitch to Kabakov: Russian Avant-garde in the 20th Century, Ludwig Museum, Cologne (cat. texts: Marc Scheps, Eveli Weiss, Noemi Smolik, Stephan Diederich, Gerard A. Goodrow)
• 1991 – The Return to Painting in Israeli Printmaking, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv
• 1991 – Text-Image, Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod (cat. text: Sara Hackert)
• 1990 – Different Art, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (cat.)
• 1990 – The Museum as Collector, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
• 1990 – Chagall to Kitaj: The Jewish Experience in 20th Century Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London (cat. text: Avram Kampf)
• 1989 – Wortlaut, K. Schopenhauer Gallery, Cologne (cat.)
• 1989 – The Russian Avant-garde in the Early 20th Century, University Gallery, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva (cat. text: Haim Finkelshtein) Abattoir '89, Marseilles (cat.)
• 1988 – Avant-garde – Revolution – Avant-garde, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (cat. texts: Marc Scheps, Peter Spielmann)
• 1988 – Upon One of the Mountains: Jerusalem in Israeli Art, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University (cat. text: Mordechai Omer)
• 1987 – Art Works Done in Groups, K-18, Kassel (cat.)
• 1984 – Transformations, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University (cat. text: Mordechai Omer)
• 1982 – Leviathan Group, Jerusalem Theatre (cat.)
• 1982 – Russian Samyzdat Art, 1960–1982, Franklin Furance Gallery, New York; Chapaque Library Gallery, Washington, D.C. (leaflet)
• 1980 – East European Art in the 20th Century, Museum of Art, Bochum, Germany (cat.)
• 1979 – Leviathan Group, Artist's House, Jerusalem (cat.)
• 1979 – 20 Years of Independent Art in the Soviet Union, Gallery of St. Mary's College, Maryland (leaflet)
• 1978 – Leviathan Group, Beth Uri and Rami Museum, Ashdot Yaacov (cat.)
• 1978 – New Art from the Soviet Union, Pratt Institute Gallery, New York (leaflet)
• 1975 – Progressive Trends in Moscow, 1970–1975, Museum of Art, Bochum, Germany (cat.)
• 1973 – Modern Russian Art: Avant-garde Drawings, Ostwall Museum, Dortmund (cat.)
• 1970 – New Trends in Moscow, Museum of Art, Lugano (cat.)
• 1969 – The New Moscow School, Pananti Gallery, Florence; Bar Gallery, Stuttgart; Interior Gallery, Frankfurt
• 1969 – The Russian Avant-garde Today, Gmurzinska Gallery, Cologne (cat.)
• 1968 – The New Moscow School, Museum of Art, Ostrov-nad-Ozhy, Czechoslovakia (cat.)
• 1965 – Artists from Moscow, Artists House, Moscow, Trade Union Club, Ustinad-Orlicy, Czechoslovakia
• 1964 – Patent Institute, Moscow
• 1963 – Dostoevsky Museum, Moscow
• 1962 – Young Artists, Udarnik Cinema, Moscow

Selected writings

• "Moscow Diaries", New Literary Observer, vol. 84, 2007 – in Russian
• Last Sky – Poems, New Literary Observer, Moscow, 2006 – in Russian
• "Poems and Articles", Symbol We: Jewish Anthology of Russian Literature, New Literary Observer, Moscow, 2003 – in Russian
• Leviathan: Diary 1963–1971, New Literary Observer, Moscow, 2002– in Russian
• "Leviathan. Manifestos", Zerkalo, vol. 19–20, 2002 – in Russian
• Military Notebooks – Poems, Leviathan Publishers, Tel Aviv, 2002 – in Russian
• "about Vladimir Jakovlev", Vladimir Jakovlev: Zivopis, Grafika, catalogue of the exhibition, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, 1995
• "The Enigma of Isaak Levitan", Isaak Levitan, 1860–1900: Sketches & Paintings, Exhibition Catalogue, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, 1991
• "About Malevich", Avant-Garde – Revolution – Avant-Garde: Russian Art from the Collection of Michail Grobman, Exhibition Catalogue, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, 1988
• "About Malevich", The Avant-Garde in Russia 1910–1930: New Perspectives, Exhibition Catalogue, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1980
• Leviathan, newspaper of modern art and literature, nos. 1–3 (1975–1980) – in Russian

Selected bibliography

• Valentin Vorobiov, Vrag Naroda. Vospominania khudozhnika, New Literary Observer, Moscow, 2005
• Irina Alpatova (ed.), Drugoie Iskusstvo, Galart, Moscow, 2005
• Matthew Baigel, "Soviet Artists, Jewish Imagery: Selections from The Norton and Nancy Dodge"
• "Collection of Soviet Non-Conformist Art", Zimmerly Journal, vol. 2, 2004
• "A-Ya: Unofficial Russian Art Review", Art Chronic, Moscow, 2004
• Victor Pivovarov, Vlubleniy Agent, New Literary Observer, Moscow, 2001
• Lidya Sooster, My Sooster, Avinarius, Tallinn, 2000
• Gunter Hirt, Sascha Wonders (Eds.), Präprintium, Moskauer Bücher aus dem Samizdat Edition Temmen, Bremen, 1998
• Alexander Goldstein, Rasstavanie s Nartsisom, New Literary Observer, Moscow, 1997
• Gabrielle Sed-Rajna (1997). Jewish Art. New York: Harry Abrams. ISBN 978-0810935143. 
• "Interviews Michailom Grobmanom", Simurg, Jerusalem, 1997
• Marina Genkina, "Vtoroi Russkiy Avant-Garde", in Evrei v Kulture Russkogo Zarubezia, vol. 5, Jerusalem, 1996
• Anna Zhuravleva, Vsevolod Nekrasov, Paket, Moskow, 1996
• Michail Gorelik, "Russkij ili Russkojazytchnyy", Novoye Vremia, vol. 43, 1996
• Victoria Motchalova, "Energia Voproshania", Inostrannaia Literatura, vol. 2, February 1996
• Marc Scheps (ed.), The Art of the Twentieth Century: Lexicon, Taschen, Cologne, 1996
• Andrey Voznesensky, "Kabalisticheskaia Expertiza", Obozrevatel, vol. 12, December 1995
• Karl Eimermacher, Vladimir Jakovlev: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen Bayer, Bissingen, 1995
• E. Beaucamp, "Die Kunst sucht ihre Zeit", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 22 July 1995
• Volfgang Kazak, "Konets Emigratsii", Znamia, November 1994
• Rossijskaia Evreiskaia Entsiklopedia, Rossijskaia Academia Nauk, Moskow, 1994
• Thomas Strauss, "Anschlag auf den Heiligenschein der Bilder", Magenta, Munchen, 1994
• V. Pavlov, "Popugay s Toporom", Iskusstvo, January 1994
• E. Barnavi, ed. (1992). A Historical Atlas of the Jewish People. Knopf. ISBN 978-0679403326. 
• F. Raphael, "From the left Bank to the West Bank", Mirabella vol. 1, October 1990
• Thomas Strauss, "Bilder einer Gottessuche", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 18 July 1988
• Michail Tchernyshov, Moskva 1961–67, New York, 1988
• F. Rotzer, "Kunstlergruppen zeigen Gruppenkunst-werke", Kunstforum, vol. 91, 1987
• Israel Shamir, Sosna i Oliva, Wahlstorm Publishers, Jerusalem, 1987
• Velemir Chlebnikov, Stichi, Poemi, Proza, Gileia, New York, 1986
• Alexander Glezer, Russian Artists in the West: Third Wave, Jersey City, 1986
• Marina Genkina, "Michail Grobman", The Shorter Encyclopaedia Judaica in Russian, vol. 3, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1986
• Stephen Feinstein, Soviet Jewish Artists in the USSR and Israel, Armonk, New York & M. E. Sharpe, London, 1985
• Jack Miller, ed. (1983). Jews in Soviet Culture. London: Transaction Books. ISBN 978-0878554959. 
• Rimma and Valery Gerlovin, "Russian Samyzhdat Books" Flue, vol. 2, New York, Spring 1982
• Viktor Tupitsin, "Russian Art", Kolkhoz, vol. 2, New York,1982
• A. Rovner (ed.), Gnosis Anthology, 2 vols, Gnosis Press, New York, 1982
• L. Bechtereva (Galina Manevich), Varianty Otrazenij, A-Ya, Paris, 1982
• A.Volochonsky, "Leviathan v Belom Svete", Dvadtsat Dva, 15, Tel Aviv, November 1980
• M. Oxhorn (21 September 1980). "Cries and Whispers from Soviet Artists". The Baltimore Sun. 
• Frantishek Kincl (ed.), Schwarz auf Weiss, vol. 6, Düsseldorf, August 1980
• Hilton Kramer (20 July 1980). "The Mystical Basis of the Russian Avant-Garde". The New York Times. p. D23. 
• Gil Goldfine (22 October 1976). "Michail Grobman". The Jerusalem Post. 
• Miriam Tal: "Magischer Symbolismus in Israel: Werk und Personlichkeit von Michail Grobman" Das Neue Israel, vol. 3, Zurich, September 1974
• Yuri Kuperman, "No Places: The Jewish Outsiders in the Soviet Union", Soviet Jewish Affairs, vol. 2, London, Summer 1973
• Miriam Tal, "Two Russian Artists", Israel Magazine, vol. 11, November 1972
• Miriam Tal, "Les Arts en Israel", Liberté, vol. 82–83, Montreal, October 1972
• Miriam Tal, "Painters from Soviet Russia", Ariel, vol. 30, Spring 1972
• Reuven Berman, "Art out of Russia", The Jerusalem Post, 24 December 1971
• J. Nicholson, "La Nouvelle gauche a Moscou: notes sur quelques autres", Chroniques de I'art vivant, September 1971
• Arsen Pohridni, "I Clandestini del penello", Panorama 240, Milano, 19 November 1970
• A. M. Fabian, "Russische Avantgarde heute", Madame und Elegante Welt, Munchen, 1970
• Arsen Pohribny, "Art and Artists of the Underground", Problems of Communism, Washington, March–April 1970
• Asiaticus (Arsen Pohribny), "I pittori del disegno", L'Espresso Colore, Roma, 16 March 1970
• W. Schulze-Roempell, "Russische Avantgarde", Die Welt, 27 February 1970
• G. Engels, "Moskaus Avantgarde herausgeschmug-gelt", Kolnische Rundschau, 5 February 1970
• V. Vanslov (ed.), Sovetskoe Izobrazitelnoe Iskusstvo i Zadachi Borby S Burzhuaznoj Ideologiei, Izobrazitelnoe Iskusstvo, Moskow, 1969
• Dušan Konečny, Hledání Tvaru, Svei Sovetu, Prague, 1968
• Jindřich Chalupecký, "Ouverture a Moscou", Opus International, no. 4, London, 4 December 1967
• Miroslav Lamač, "Quelques jeunes peintres", Opus International, no. 4, London, 4 December 1967
• Jindřich Chalupecký, "O Moderno Urneni v Sovetskern Svazu", Vytvarne Prace, Prague, 21 September 1967
• Jiři Padrata, "Neue Kunst in Moskau", Das Kunstwerk, vol. 7–8, Baden-Baden, April-May 1967
• Miroslav Lamač, "I giovani pittori di Mosca", La Biennale die Venezia, vol. 62, Venezia, 1967
• Jiři Padrata, "Neue Kunst in Moskau", Kulturni Tvotba, Prague, 5 January 1967
• John Berger (6 November 1966). "The unofficial Russians". The Sunday Times (London). 

References

External links

• Michail Grobman Personal info website.
• Michail Grobman time-line at loushy.com
• Michail Grobman pictures Minotaure Gallery
• Michail Grobman on museum.ru website
• Michail Grobman on magazines.russ.ru website
• Dana Gilerman (19 November 2007). זה יגיע, אני לא דואג [It will come, I do not worry]. Haaretz (in Hebrew).