Amir Gross Kabiri
Amir G. Kabiri (Hebrew: אמיר גרוס כבירי) is an Israeli businessman, investor, industrialist, publisher, art collector. He is the chairman of the M.T. Abraham Group S.A., CEO & Chairperson of Aluminij Industries, and best known as the owner of The Art Newspaper Israel, President of the M.T. Abraham Foundation and the Hermitage Museum Foundation Israel. Biography. Amir Kabiri was born on August 29, 1980. He attended in Tel Aviv, Israel from 1992 to 1998, where he majored in Business administration and Managerial economics. Kabiri became President of the M.T. Abraham Foundation in January 2004, overseeing the exhibition of  74 Edgar Degas statues in museums such as the Tel Aviv Art Museum, the Valencian Institute of Modern Art, and the State Hermitage Museum. In 2012, he co-directed a publication dealing with how the Soviets traded away their nation's art (1917–1938), including works of art drawn from the collections of the State Hermitage Museum, titled "Selling Russia's Treasures". In the same year, he organized at the State Hermitage Museum an international colloquium, "Posthumous Bronzes in Law and Art History", which hosted museum directors, art historians, and legal experts. As of early 2013, with the support and collaboration  of the Lissitzky Committee in Novosibirsk and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Kabiri edited and managed the publication of El Lissitzky's "Jewish period" catalogue raisonné. The first volume among four on the artist's oeuvre, while at the same year he organized and supported the exhibition ""Lissitzky – Kabakov, Utopia and Reality"", which was on loan to the State Hermitage Museum, the Multimedia Museum Moscow and the Kunsthaus Graz. In 2013, he co-edited the publication titled ""White city – Bauhaus Architecture in Tel Aviv"" which presents Tel Aviv's Bauhaus architectural heritage and coedited and directed the publication titled ""Lissitzky  - Kabakov, Utopia and Reality"". Prof. Mikhail B. Piotrovsky, Director of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, appointed Kabiri to head the Hermitage Museum Foundation in Israel, whose main objective is supporting "The State Hermitage Museum in its artistic, scientific, cultural and diplomacy activities". In 2014, as part of "Tel Aviv Days in St. Petersburg", a cultural event led by the Israeli General Consulate in St. Petersburg, Kabiri supported the events on behalf of the Hermitage Museum Foundation Israel. Additionally, as part of the State Hermitage Museum 250th anniversary events in Israel, with the collaboration of the Israeli Foreign Ministry , Kabiri headed ""Dada and Surrealism"" exhibition from the Israel Museum. It includes holdings of individual artists, among them Man Ray, Max Ernst and Marcel Janco. In 2015, he bought the Hapoel Tel Aviv soccer club from Israel and in 2016, he signed a collaboration agreement with China Machinery Engineering Corporation ("CMEC") which includes the construction of the new stadium of Hapoel Tel Aviv. In 2016, he initiated the publication ""The Life of Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers"" with the collaboration of the Lissitzky Foundation at the Vanabbe Museum. In June 2019, he pledged a donation from his art collection to the State  Hermitage Museum in Russia valued at 7m USD, this donation consists of paintings and sculptures by the Russian artist Vladimir Sterligov, and the French impressionist, Edgar Degas. On 7 April 2020, M.T. Abraham Group's subsidiary, Aluminij Industries d.o.o., headed by Amir Gross Kabiri, signed a 30-year lease agreement of Aluminij factory in Mostar, with an option to purchase.