Notable Footnotes

• 1939 - Born in Moscow
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• 1960s - Active member of The Second Russian Avant-Garde
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• 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 manily in Tel Aviv
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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, Usti- nad- 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
• Gabriele Sed-Rajna, Jewish Art, Harry Abrams, New York, 1997
• "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, 22.7.1995
• 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.), A Historical Alias of the Jewish People, Hutchinson, London, 1992
• F. Raphael, "From the left Bank to the West Bank", Mirabella vol. 1, October 1990
• Thomas Strauss,"Bilder einer Gottessuche", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 18.7.1988
• 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
• J. Miller (ed.) Jews in Soviet Culture, Transaction Books, London, 1984
• 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, 2vols, , 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, "Cries and Whispers from Soviet Artists", Baltimore Sun, 21.9.1980
• Frantishek Kincl (ed.), Schwarz auf Weiss, vol.6, Düsseldorf ,August 1980
• Hilton Kramer, "The Mystical Basis of the Russian Avantgarde", The New York Times, 20.7.1980
• Gil Goldfine, "Michail Grobman", The Jerusalem Post, 22.10.1976
• 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, 24.12.1971
• 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, 19.11.1970
• 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, 16.3.1970
• W. Schulze-Roempell, "Russische Avantgarde", Die Welt, 27.2.1970
• G. Engels, "Moskaus Avantgarde herausgeschmug-gelt", Kolnische Rundschau, 5.2.1970
• 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, 4.12.1967
• Miroslav Lamač, "Quelques jeunes peintres", Opus International, no. 4, London, 4.12.1967
• Jindřich Chalupecký, "O Moderno Urneni v Sovetskern Svazu", Vytvarne Prace, Prague, 21.9.1967
• Jiři Padrata, "Neue Kunst in Moskau", Das Kunstwerk, vol. 7-8, Baden-Baden, April-Mai 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, 5.1.1967
• John Berger, "The unofficial Russians", The Sunday Times, London, 6.11.1966

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
• "Tel Aviv Museum as an art Cemetery Dana Gilerman on Grobman from Haaretz
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