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.

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• Biography
• Awards
• Solo exhibitions
• Writing
• References

Biography

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.

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

Writing

"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