# 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.

## 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

## 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, Moscow, 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, Moscow, 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, Moscow, 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.