ásta vilhelmína

Ásta Vilhelmína Guðmundsdóttir is an iceland based artist and fashion designer. Ásta is educated in Germany, Fachhochschule für Gestaltung Pforzheim, with BA degree. 1993 Ásta attended the performance class of professor Sodos Michu in the Art Academie in Stuttgart, Germany. 2011 Ásta visited a school of painting and drawing in Umbria Italie. 2013 she attended Master class in painting with the artist Bjarni Sigurbjörnsson in Iceland. Ásta has participated as artist and organiser in numerous exhibitions, residencies and art festivals around the world; Japan, South Korea, France, Lithuania, Mauritius, Iceland etc. In the summer 2022 Ásta founded and organised an Art Residence and Exhibition in Iceland, Eyrarbakki, Oceanus / Hafsjór. In July 2023, Oceanus/Dálítill sjór, it was continued in Eyrarbakki with international artists as well as Icelandic artists. The third edition of Oceanus, Hafrót is in September 2024. www.oceanushafsjor.com

Inspired by nature and nature fibres Ásta creates, experiments and expresses herself through textiles of any nature. She uses materials she finds in her environment, such as seaweed, wool, horsehair, silk, soil and plant fibers.

Ásta´s artworks and designs are often inspired by the ever changing Icelandic nature. Her creations are as rustic and contrasting as the Icelandic storms and eruptions - yet dreamlike at the same time. Ásta´s works evoke a strong bond with nature, bordering on the savage and the mythical. Since the year 2000 Ásta has been designing for her own fashion label ásta creative clothes, “Weathered clothes” available in Kirsuberjatréð Reykjavík www.kirs.is

For the last 15 years, Ásta has been expressing herself more and more with installations, body installations, textile sculptures, drawings and paintings.

2024

Oceanus Hafrót International Art residency and exhibition in Eyrarbakki Iceland. Third edition, organiser and artist.

Sampyna Samruni Marcinkonys, Lithuania Project with Laura Pavilonyte and Auste Varne.

The Transit of Venus across the Sun, International Art residency and exhibition, Île Rodrigues in Indian Ocean. Organiser and artist.

LE PORTRAIT Group exhibition in Imaaya Gallery Phonix Mauritius. Organiser and artist.

ÞARAR KELP. Solo Exhibition in the Gallery space Kirsuberjatréð Reykjavík Iceland.

2023

“Flíkur fá framtíð”. Potatohouse Eyrarbakki, Iceland. Assisting young adults in up cycling clothes and exhibiting them in a show.

Maurice Reviens. Group exhibition in GT Espace Mundart, Biennale de la Jouliette, Marseille. “Handel with care”.

Oceanus Dálítill sjór. As artist, founder, curator and project manager. of the second International Art Festival and residence in Eyrarbakki Iceland. www.oceanushafsjor.com

Smiðjuþræðir. Worksshop for the children of BES children school in Eyrarbakki and Stokkseyri. “Recycling your clothes”. Invited by Artmuseum Árnessýsla Hveragerði.

Participating and organising an International Art Residence and Art Festival “ISLAND MYTHS and REALITY” in Mauritius. www.islandmythsandreality.com

2022

Smiðjuþræðir. Worksshop for the childrens schools in Hveragerði, Þorlákshöfn, Flóaskóli, Flúðaskóli. “Recycling your clothes”. Invitied by Artmuseum Árnessýsla Hveragerði.

Giving workshop in Experimental Textiles in Nida Lithuania. Participants were students in Textile art, in the Vilnius Art Academy.

Black Forest. Art installation and body installation in MENGI, Reykjavik Iceland with improvised butoh dance session and music. With Mushimaru Fuijeda, Sowaka Maka, Im Tae Woong and Hallvarður ´Asgeirsson.

Oceanus Hafsjór. Founder, curator and project manager. International Art Festival and residence in Eyrarbakki Iceland. In collaboration with the Heritage Museum of Árnessýsla. www.oceanushafsjor.com

The Pass, an international art project with children from BES Barnaskólinn á Eyrarbakka og Stokkseyri and Kyoto Japan. Workshop with children “Painting Melodies” with Takuya Komaba Japan.

Örlagaþræðir in Harpa Reykjavik. A collaboration with the Icelandic Opera, with Auður Gunnarsdóttir. Lára Stefánsdóttir, Bjarni Frímann and Níels Thibaud Girerd.

Vitund Group Exhibition about recycling textile during Design March in Reykjavik

2021

Dimensions of Sense-Ability. Multi national multi genre art online network & online artistic sensory expansion experiment. www.sense-ability.net

POTENTIA Solo Exhibition in Marijos ir Jurgio Slapeliu namas-muziejus, Vilnius Lithuania.

2020

Deggjar _ remains of a stay II. Cultural Center Grafarvogur Iceland. Exhibition with Soffía Sæmundsdóttir.

Dance _ in its purest form. Online exhibition. Photographs.

Portmarkaður Kirsuberjatrésins. Market for Art and Design in Covid times. Kirsuberjatréð Reykjavík. Organization with Helga Ragnhildur Mogensen.

Member of allocation committee for design grants.

2019

Pariicipation in JIEAF Jeju International Experimental Arts Festival in South Korea with Installations and Exhibition and Body Installation.

Becoming Nature .. nature and movement. Giving workshop with Gio Ju in Piedi in Terra Italy.

Butoh in Wheelchair Movement and Body inatallationwork. Giving workshop with Gio Ju in Leányfalu Hungary.

Natural Eruption / Náttúrulegar Hamfarir. Exhibition with Sung Baeg artist from South Korea, during annual festival celebrating the end of volcanic eruption 1973 in Vestmannaeyjar Iceland.

Dreggjar _ remains of a stay Exhibition with Soffía Sæmundsdóttir in Sittart Gallerie Dusseldorf Germany

Body installation witn Butoh master Mushimaru Fuijeda and musician Aya Ogawa and Hallvarður Ásgeirsson Mengi Reykjavík

Solo Exhibition Hrafnaspark Herbergið Kirsuberjatréð Reykjavík

2018

Participation in Art Camp in Gapa island of Jeju South Korea. Performances, Installations etc.

Workshop with children, exploring seaweed as material for “Seaweed creatures and monsters”, in Eyrarbakki Iceland with Linda Ásdísardóttir.

Collaboration with Gio Ju Performance artist from South Korea; Seaweed and history in Eyrarbakki Iceland.

Working with the Butoh master Mushimaru Fujieda from Japan in connection with the exhibition “Ocean Threads” in Eyrarbakki Iceland.

“Marþræðir / Ocean Threads” Solo exhibition in Heritage Museum in Eyrarbakki Iceland.

“With Without” Exhibition during Design March “Thread of Settlement & Design”

“Crossover” 3 day performance with Ragna Fróða during Design March in “Hanging by thread” Korpúlfsstaðir Reykjavík.

2017

"Freedom" "Embrace" Anarchy Art Group exhibition Yogyakarta Indonesia.

Jeju International Experimental Arts Festival. Scenery, body installations and performances.

"After the rain" .Textile group exhibition "Everyday Matter" Textile museum Boras Sweden.

Participation in "International Open Arts Project" Busan South Korea. Group exhibition and performances. "Wing Wings" "Natural Force" "Pawing the air"

"Nature including us ..us including nature". Group exhibition, the Textile Guild of Iceland during Design March Reykjavík. Exhibitor and curator.

Participation Green Week fashion show at Copenhagen Business School.

2016

Installation in Marija and Jurgis Slapelius House Museum in Vilnius Lithuania. "Universality" a collaboration with Takuya Komaba.

Installation " Nature force" Flóra Akureyri Iceland.

Installation "Light" in a group exhibition High Tide, with the Textile Guild of Iceland during Design March Reykjavík. Exhibitor and curator.

2015

Kirsuberjatréð Reykjavík Exhibition "Once there was a thread"

Installation in ano ano galerie Tokyo Japan. "Rippling" Sazanami" a collaboration with Takuya Komaba

Edible Fashion Workshop in ano ano galerie Tokyo Japan

"My Mothers My Nature" Group exhibition Twist, with the Textile Guild of Iceland during Design March Reykjavík. Exhibitor and curator.

Installation "Tutu" Aurum Reykjavík

2014

Abiko International Open Air Art Exhibition Japan Installation “Fluctuation” collaboration with Takuya Komaba

Installation “Life Cycle” Art Project “Letter from Fukushima” Fukushima Japan

Installations “Shining” and “On my Path” and performance Busan South Korea

Art Innature International Art Festival

Installation Copenhagen Denmark

Dress of Tears Project London England

Group Exhibition “Tölt” Nordic house Reykjavík Iceland

Working as staff during Fresh Winds in Garður International Art Symposium

2013

“Spider Queen” Exhibition Art Studio Dungeon Tokyo Japan collaboration with Ayumi Tonokura

Abiko International Open Air Art Exhibition Japan Installation “Melting”

Solo Exhibition in Reykjavík Iceland “Sea Créatures”

Solo Exhibition Installation in Vestmannaeyjar Iceland “Blóðrauður”

“Tölt” Group Exhibition Fellshus Berlin Germany

Performance "The knitted hourse" with Ragna Fróðadóttir

“Earthlings” InstallationArtist Residency Full Bloom Pont du Montvert France

Installation “Eldrauður” Reykjavík Iceland

2012

Installation Cultural Night Copenhagen Denmark

“Dancing to the sound of the trees” Installation View Equinox International Art Symposium Lithuania

Fresh Winds International Art Symposium Iceland Installation

NICE Fashion Summit Fashion competition Opera House Copenhagen Denmark

“Stormfiðri” Installation Reykjavík Iceland

2011

Installation Cultural Night Copenhagen Denmark

Exhibition “At the Seashore” Akureyri Iceland collaboration with Mireya Samper

“Randsharf” Design in Island Museum fur Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt Germany

2010

Fresh Winds International Art Symposium Iceland Installation “Unconsiousness”

Fashion Show Cultural Night Copenhagen Denmark

Design March Reykjavík Iceland

2009

Fashion Show Riga Latvia

2007

“Icelandic Fashion and Design-Inspired Nature” Fellshus Nordic Embassies Berlin Germany

2006

“Icelandic Fashion” Group Exhibition National Center for Cultural Heritage Reykjavík Iceland

“Fashion and Design from Iceland” Group Exhibition Museum of Applied Art Cologne Germany

2005

Cultural Night Copenhagen Denmark Fashion Show

2004

Nomination for “Den Nordiske Design Pris Ginen” Copenhagen Denmark

2001

Textil Exhibition Carfts and Design Reykjavik Iceland

2000-2009

Designing for own label ásta créative clothes presenting on different Fashion Weeks,

Paris, Copenhagen and New York attending several Fashion Shows

2000

Starting of own label “ásta créative clothes”

Reykjavik Cultural City Fashion Show

EXPO Hannover Germany design for the icelandic exhibition

1999

Organizing Festival Vestmannaeyjar Iceland

1998

Costum design “Evita” Opera Reykjavík Iceland

1997

Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste Stuttgart Germany with major emphasis on performance and theater

1990

Graduation from Fachhochschule fur Gestaltung Pforzheim Germany Fashion Design

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Ásta Vilhelmína Guðmundsdóttir

Artist and designer
Kaldbakur Skúmstaðir
820 Eyrarbakki, Iceland

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