Amir Gross Kabiri

As part of the State Hermitage Museum's 250th anniversary events in Israel, the President of the State of Israel, Mr. Reuven Rivlin, blessed the Hermitage Museum Foundation Israel headed by Mr. Kabiri for its activities and role in improving the cultural and diplomatic relations between Russia and Israel.

Additionally, Mr. Kabiri’s foundation also pledged their Edgar Degas collection to the State Hermitage Museum for an exhibition titled "Edgar Degas-Figures in Motion".

The entire 74 bronze sculptures collection, which is part of the M.T. Abraham Foundation collection, was on loan to the State Hermitage Museum for two years.

The Sarajevo Film Festival was supported by Kabiri's foundation, which became the host of the 28th Sarajevo Film Festival Opening Gala Reception.

With this sponsorship M.T. Abraham Group continues to strengthen the local art and culture scene by supporting different projects throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Kabiri considers Mostar his second home after Israel.

In 2022, he was nominated as the Head of the Jewish community in Mostar.

Amir Gross Kabiri (אמיר גרוס כבירי; born 29 August 1980) is an Israeli businessman, philanthropist, industrialist, publisher, and art collector.

He is the chairman of the M.T. Abraham Group, CEO of Aluminij Industries, and best known as the owner of The Art Newspaper Israel, President of the M.T. Abraham Foundation, Member at the Board of Patrons of the Conference of European Rabbis, and the President of the Hermitage Museum Foundation Israel.

Kabiri is also a vice president of the HŠK Zrinjski Mostar football club, President of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of Israel in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Head of the Jewish Community of Mostar.

Kabiri was born on August 29, 1980.

He attended Ironi Daled high school in Tel Aviv, Israel from 1992 to 1998, where he majored in Business administration and Managerial economics.

Mr. Kabiri became Chairman of the M.T. Abraham Group in 2004, and was appointed as the President of the M.T. Abraham Foundation during the same year.

He oversaw 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 2010 he donated a historical publication to the Yad Vashem Library: Adolf Hitler Album, from 1936.

He also raised funds for the "Healing through Art" project at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2011.

In 2012, he organized the “Posthumous Bronzes in Law and Art History” international colloquium at the State Hermitage Museum.

In the same year, 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 diplomatic activities".

In 2012, he co-directed and sponsored a publication dealing with how the Soviets traded away their nation's art (1917–1938), titled “Selling Russia's Treasures”.

In 2013, he co-edited the publication titled "White city – Bauhaus Architecture in Tel Aviv," which presents Tel Aviv's Bauhaus architectural heritage, and co-edited and directed the publication titled "Lissitzky – Kabakov, Utopia and Reality".

In the year 2014, as part of the State Hermitage Museum 250th anniversary, with the collaboration of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Mr. Kabiri oversaw and sponsored the "Dada and Surrealism" exhibition from the Israel Museum.

In the same year, he collaborated with the Israeli Antiquities Authority, in bringing the “Lod Mosaic”, a series of Roman mosaic floors of exceptional quality dated to about A.D. 300, to the State Hermitage Museum.

In 2014, Kabiri sponsored "Tel Aviv Days in St. Petersburg", a cultural event led by the Israeli General Consulate in St. Petersburg.

In 2018, he obtained the publishing rights of the Art Newspaper Israel.

The Art Newspaper is an online and printed international publication which covers the international art and culture world, and is supported by its network editions in London, Moscow, New York, Beijing, and Paris.

In the year 2018, Kabiri supported a project led by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel and numerous Macedonian partners, of cleaning, restoring and documenting the Balkans' oldest Jewish cemetery in the city of Bitola.

The ancient Jewish cemetery became the "Park of the Living" in Bitola, honoring the Jews who were deported and then executed in Treblinka.

The memorial park includes art exhibits of Jewish and non-Jewish artists, commemorating the community.

Through the Hermitage Museum Foundation Israel, Kabiri supported the exhibition titled "Memory of Bitola 2019", which debuted at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs on June 30, 2019.

In June 2019, he pledged a donation from his art collection to the State Hermitage Museum in Russia valued $7 million (USD).

This donation consisted of paintings and sculptures by the Russian artist Vladimir Sterligov, and the French impressionist, Edgar Degas.

In the year 2020, he became the owner of Aluminij Industries, an aluminium manufacturing company, with annual revenue of $263 million (USD).

The company is the largest exporter and importer of BiH.

Aluminij Industries currently employs 350 people, making it one of the largest employers of the region.

In December 2021, Aluminij Industries and Glencore International AG signed a two year contract for the supply of 300,000 tons of primary remelt aluminium.

In April 2022, M.T. Abraham Group announced an investment of €32 million in electricity production using solar power.

It was reported that once operational, solar power station would produce more than 68,000 MWh annually.

In August 2022, Kabiri was in negotiations with the Municipality of Mostar to take over the Mostar airport, which is the third largest airport in BiH.

In May 2022, Mr. Kabiri opened his own museum space, named “Hub of Fine Arts” in the Balkans.

The works of art on display at The Hub of Fine Arts represent the first half of the 20th century and the artists of that time period.