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SUMMARY:Grossbard, Polish beer and pierogi in the courtyard
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DESCRIPTION:The duo exhibition at the Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod is dedicated to
the works of Batia and Yehoshua Grossbard — together and individually —
and seeks to shed new light on two artists who worked for decades out of a
deep connection both to the culture they came from and to the Israeli
landscape in which they chose to settle. Born in Poland in the first decade
of the 20th century, the couple arrived in Mandatory Palestine in the late
1930s, lived and worked in Haifa, and later became among the founders of
the Ein Hod artists’ village in the 1950s. Until their deaths in the
1990s, they worked side by side while developing independent and distinct
artistic languages.
Despite recognition in the local art scene, Batia and Yehoshua Grossbard
remained largely outside the mainstream of Israeli art. They did not belong
to any defined movement or school, and their work moved between European
traditions and the search for a new local visual language. From this
position — one of partial belonging and an outsider’s gaze — emerged
a deeply personal and rich body of work dealing with memory, migration,
identity, spirituality, and landscape.
As part of the project, a special tour of the exhibition will take place
with curator Avi Lubin, a curator and researcher of contemporary art
working within both institutional and independent frameworks in Israel, who
will guide the tour and offer a Polish-Israeli reading of the Grossbard
couple’s work. Through their life stories and artworks, the tour will
explore the encounter between European culture and the reality of the Land
of Israel, questions of displacement and rootedness, and the contribution
of Polish-born artists to shaping Israeli art history. It will also
highlight narratives that often remained outside the official canon but
continue to resonate through their work.
 
The tour will take place on Thursday, 5 June at 11:00.
Registration
At the end of the tour, pierogi and Polish beer will be served in the
courtyard, extending the cultural experience and connecting art, memory,
migration, and flavors associated with Polish culture.
The exhibition will be opened to public until 3 October, 2026.
For information about the exhibition
 
Batia Grossbard (1908–1995)
Born in Ostrów Wielkopolski (Poznań region). She studied at the Academy
of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where she received formal training in painting and
specialized in oil painting, watercolor, and lithography. During her
studies she met Yehoshua Grossbard, who later became her husband and
artistic partner. She immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in the 1930s. Her
work moves between painting and sculpture and is characterized by an
intimate, poetic language concerned with memory, inner imagery, and
emotional landscapes. Throughout her career, she developed a sustained
dialogue between her European background and the local Israeli
environment.
Yehoshua Grossbard (1900–1992)
Born in Serock, a town north of Warsaw. In the 1920s he studied art in
Vilnius and Warsaw and joined the Association of Jewish Artists in Poland,
as part of the vibrant Jewish artistic sphere in interwar Eastern Europe.
In 1939 he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine as an “illegal immigrant”
(ma’apil), joined his wife Batia Grossbard, and settled in Haifa. He
later became an active member of the Ein Hod artists’ community. His work
is characterized by a search for formal and abstract structures alongside
engagement with landscape, material, and cultural memory. His oeuvre
reflects a dialogue between European artistic traditions and an emerging
Israeli visual language.
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