Thora Karlsdottir

Welcome to my portfolio, Im an Icelandic Artist. Even if I come from Iceland I have recently moved back here after 20 years away. I lived in different countries around Europe where I lived and worked. I lived in Sweden, Spain and Luxembourg and I studied Art in Germany.

Let me tell you about my art project 280 dresses. I wanted to make a long term commitment to my art. To be creative every single day for long period of time. I got the idea to live in the performance for a whole nine months, so I started with on the 1st of March 2015 with only 35 dresses and I needed 280.

I trusted the universe to send me more dresses so I could continue for the 280 day´s. I opened a Facebook site 280 Dresses/day´s 40 weeks, nine months. I posted one photo every day, me the artist, coping with daily life in a dress. Sometimes I had problems with the snow, falling down and stuff like that. People started to follow me on FB and were looking forward to the next photo, they said :) My boyfriend took all the photos, he is very talented amateur photographer.

Nobody knew if I would manage to stick to the project nor if I would manage to collect the 280 dresses . Let me tell you the happy ending, I did it, I collected all the dresses I needed and Im so thankful to all the people that helped me with their generous dress donations in the name of the Art.

On September 10. 2016 I will open a private Exhibition in the Art Museum in Akureyri, Iceland. Hopefully the book about the 280. dresses in 40 weeks and nine month will be published in November. Depending on if we manage to raise the money here on Karolina fund.


Artist, lives and works in the Art Street in Akureyri, Iceland.
www.thorakarlsdottir.com