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,, in Düsseldorf, his batik textiles.

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

Publications