Galerie Smend

Galerie Smend is a gallery in Cologne, Germany showing textile art. The gallery was founded 1973 and run by Rudolf G. Smend until today.

History

The Gallery is specialized in textile art and shows international textile artists. After Rudolf Smend went on a journey through Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Malaysia to Indonesia in 1972, he opened one year later a batik-gallery in Cologne. During his journey he attended courses by batik-artists. He also visited little craft enterprises and studied the diverse techniques and collected valuable fabrics of all kinds. With many of those fabrics and artworks he returned to Germany. In 1973, the same year of his opening, he showed on the first international Art Fair IKM, (later the Art Cologne), in Düsseldorf, his batik textiles.[1]

Exhibitions

The great breakthrough brought the large exhibition "Batiken von Fürstenhöfen und Sultanspalästen aus Java und Sumatra" in 2000, which took place in the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum and was composed by the gallery. Altogether the gallery showed more than 250 exhibitions and published 15 books and comprehensive catalogues.[1]

  • 1973: 1. International Art Fair IKM, today Art Cologne
  • 1974: Art 5, Art Basel
  • 1974: 2. Internationaler Kunstmarkt Köln
  • 1996: 7. Korean textile-art Biennale
  • 2000: Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Köln, Batik-sammlung von Smend „Batiken von Fürstenhöfen und Sultanspalästen aus Java und Sumatra"
  • 2005: American Textile History Museum, Lowell USA
  • 2005: 1. Textile ART, Berlin
  • 2008: Several exhibition
  1. Arts of Pacific Asia Show in San Francisco
  2. Textile and Tribal Arts Show in San Francisco
  3. Textile and Tribal Arts Show in New York
  4. Textile ART Berlin (MB)
  5. Exhibition: Monika Speyer, Peter Algier, Kobayashi Shoukoh
  6. Batik-exhibition : Fritz Donart, Jonathan Evans, Beth Mc Coy, Rosi Robinson
  7. Exhibition: Irina Kolesnikova
  8. Exhibition: Arimatsu Shibori - Murase
  • 2009: Arts of Pacific Asia Show, San Francisco
  • 2009: Textile and Tribal Arts Show, San Francisco
  • 2010: Arts of Pacific Asia Show in San Francisco
  • 2010: Textile and Tribal Arts Show in San Francisco
  • 2015: Exhibition: Jonathan Mwe di Malila, "Congo-Pop! the Lovechild between Pop-Art and Fauvism"

Since 1973 constantly varying exhibition of national and international textile-artists.

Publications
  • Batik – Europäische Künstler in Südost-Asien, 1977
  • Batikhandbuch 136 Batikkünstler stellen sich vor, 1980
  • Seidenmalerei Handbuch, 1983
  • Internationale Batik Ausstellung Katalog, 1984, Köln
  • Malerei auf Seide – Handbuch II, 1985
  • Seide, Farbe, Seidenmalerei – Handbuch III, 1987
  • Seidenmalerei in Vollendung (Hrsg.) 1988
  • Seidenmalerei Handbuch IV 1989
  • VI. Biennale der Textilkunst 1990-1991 ISBN 978-3926779137
  • Seidenmalerei Handbuch V 1993
  • 25 Jahre Textile Kunst – Galerie Smend 1973 – 1998,Handbuch VI ISBN 978-3926779731
  • Batiken von Fürstenhöfen und Sultanspalästen aus Java 2000, Sammlung Rudolf G. Smend, Texte deutsch/englisch ISBN 9783926779588
  • Peter Wenger Batik – Retrospektive 2006, Katalog zur Ausstellung vom 27.10.05 - 7.1.06
  • BATIK 75 selected masterpieces The Rudolf G. Smend Collection 2006, 85 Farbtafeln, Deutsch/Englisch ISBN 978-0804838955
  • Out of Ireland – 50 Years of Batik by Peter Wenger, 2007, Gallery 1, Thomastown, Irland ISBN 9783926779397

References
  1. "Galerie Smend: So kam die Batik-Kunst nach Köln". http://www.ksta.de/. Retrieved 23 September 2015. External link in |publisher= (help)


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