Smend Gallery
The gallery Smend is a gallery for textile art in Cologne . It was founded in 1973 by Rudolf G. Smend, who is still in charge today.
history
The Smend Gallery specializes in textile art and exhibits international textile artists. After the trained business graduate Rudolf Smend undertook a trip through the Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Malaysia to Indonesia in 1972, he opened a batik gallery a year later in Cologne's Südstadt (Mainzer Straße) . During his trip he took courses with batik artists himself, visited the small handicraft businesses and studied the various techniques and collected valuable fabrics of all kinds. He came back to Cologne with many of these hand-made textiles and works of art in his luggage. In 1973, the same year it opened, it exhibited on the “1. International Art Market ”, today's Art Cologne , made its batik fabrics.
Exhibitions
The big breakthrough came in 2000 with the large exhibition "Batiks from royal courts and sultan's palaces from Java and Sumatra", which took place in the old Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum and was put together by the Smend Gallery. In total, the gallery has shown more than 250 exhibitions and published 15 books and extensive catalogs.
- 1973: 1st International Art Market Cologne , today's Art Cologne
- 1974: Art 5, Art Basel
- 1974: 2nd International Art Market Cologne
- 1996: 7th Korean Textile Art Biennale
- 2000: Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Cologne, Smend batik collection "Batiks from royal courts and sultan's palaces from Java and Sumatra"
- 2005: American Textile History Museum, Lowell USA
- 2005: 1st Textile ART, Berlin
- 2008: Several exhibitions
- Arts of Pacific Asia Show in San Francisco
- Textile and Tribal Arts Show in San Francisco
- Textile and Tribal Arts Show in New York
- Textile ART Berlin (MB)
- Exhibition: Monika Speyer, Peter Algier, Kobayashi Shoukoh
- Batik exhibition: Fritz Donart, Jonathan Evans, Beth Mc Coy, Rosi Robinson
- Exhibition: Irina Kolesnikova
- 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
Since 1973 constantly changing exhibitions of national and international textile artists.
Publications
- Batik - European artist in Southeast Asia , 1977
- Batik manual. 136 batik artists introduce themselves , 1980
- Silk painting manual , 1983
- International Batik Exhibition Catalog , 1984, Cologne
- Painting on Silk - Handbook II , 1985
- Silk, color, silk painting - Handbook III , 1987
- Silk painting in perfection (Ed.) 1988
- Silk Painting Handbook IV 1989
- VI. Textile Art Biennial 1990-1991 . ISBN 978-3926779137
- Silk painting manual V , 1993
- 25 Years of Textile Art - Galerie Smend 1973-1998 , Handbook VI, ISBN 978-3926779731
- Batiks from royal courts and sultan's palaces from Java 2000. Collection Rudolf G. Smend . ISBN 9783926779588
- Peter Wenger Batik - Retrospective 2006 . Exhibition catalog
- BATIK 75 selected masterpieces The Rudolf G. Smend Collection 2006 . ISBN 978-0804838955
- Out of Ireland - 50 Years of Batik by Peter Wenger . 2007, Gallery 1, Thomastown, Ireland
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Galerie Smend: This is how batik art came to Cologne www.ksta.de/ , 23 September 2013