The End of the Universe as We Know It?

The End of the Universe as We Know It? was a solo exhibition by Anders Bojen & Kristoffer Ørum at Galerie Mikael Andersen in Copenhagen in 2007. It presented a dystopian scenario where computer-generated body fragments and singing microwave ovens suggested a post-human future. The exhibition recounted the story of a black magnetic fluid, ferrofluid, that generated forms and figures without human interaction.

Taking its starting point in classical ideas about the end of the world, the exhibition mixed anxiety and faith in the future into a playful soap-opera-like narrative, relocating human fate to mysterious experiments of a distant time. The installation included crystallised body parts, speculative artefacts and humorous relics from imagined futures, such as a magazine issue dedicated to liquid clothing and shopping on Mars, and a free newspaper transformed into an edition titled 2,269 Hours.

Bojen and Ørum’s work often moves between science fiction and popular science, with references to comic books, television formats and advertising language. The exhibition continued this approach, combining speculation with a documentary style to produce objects that felt like remnants of possible futures.