Kristoffer Ørum
Mostly it is admin.
Local. Copenhagen and Aarhus, mostly.
A teacher who keeps a studio in order to have something to teach from.
Collaborative. Most of it was made with other people.
Science fiction, set last week.
Research. Somebody is going to have to examine it.
It considers what AI might look like if it evolved through neighbourhood initiatives, recycled consumer hardware, and community-specific datasets, moving at the pace of shared maintenance rather than commercial urgency. Diffused States (Lexington), 2025
Putin's Nose was a multi-year project that sought to turn surveillance systems' simplified identity categories and tools against themselves. Putin's Nose, 2019
The outcome was a series of live tableaux presented in public space, inviting direct engagement and chance encounters. Mundane Heroics, 2019
In The Old Gate at Folkets Park, Malmö’s working-class history is reactivated through DIY sound system cultures. Even the City Dreams of Being Another, 2025
A Body Has Many Members is a large-scale public commission by Anders Bojen & Kristoffer Ørum for the University College Capital (UCC) Campus Nordsjælland, produced with support from the Danish Agency for Culture. A Body Has Many Members, 2012
Data Kroppe is a video artwork by Kristoffer Ørum, commissioned and broadcast by Danish national television (DR) and featured on DR Kulturklubben. Data Kroppe, 2017
As tension builds, the man gradually dissolves into the screen, becoming one with the flickering patterns. Once We All Walk through Solid Objects, 2007
Visitors could connect their phones to new networks appearing in the gallery space and receive fragments of text and video. Invisible Objects, 2016
The exhibition consisted of a series of household objects and sculptural forms recreated in unusual materials and fitted with custom electronics. Invisible Objects, 2016
When compositional and editorial hierarchies are systematically dismantled, how does the perceived importance of visual information change? Watershed, 2025
Biographical material such as family photographs from their suburban childhoods is merged into an endless series of alternative life stories. AutoBiography, 2011
Putin's Nose began with an everyday moment: looking into a shopping bag full of groceries and noticing a beetroot that, for a moment, looked like the artist's Russian grandmother's nose. Putin's Nose, 2019
Just as hip-hop DJs once transformed the turntable from a playback device into a creative instrument, this project reimagines Hvidovre’s history as speculative fiction. Hvidovre Makes Good Times Better, 2025
The 2017 version included male artists and moved away from explicit imagery toward more abstract works. Sucker Trick, 2017
In the video, Ørum reflects on the human body as data by visually overlaying biometric patterns, abstracted motion, and rhythmic shifts of light and texture. Data Kroppe, 2017
The exhibition was the first public survey of bookworks focused on alternative interspecies possibilities and featured artists working at the intersection of speculative fiction and bio-art. Signal_Crayfish, 2021
The project replaced advertising posters at Sydhavn Station with what appeared to be an information campaign about the development and dissolution of the welfare state from 1872 to 2001. Frihed, Lighed Og Hip-Hop, 2023
jerklædte Misforståelser (Feathered Misconceptions) is a fifteen-minute associative performance commissioned by Ny Carlsberg Fondet for their annual celebration of their founder on 28 February 2018. Feathered Misconceptions, 2018
One text reads: “In the bottom drawer of my fridge are a few beetroots that have been left there for so long that they have begun to leak red liquid. Qua Aqua (Beetroot Texts), 2017
The screens displayed a new page every few minutes, allowing both visitors to the medieval church and local citizens passing through the square to encounter the rewritten history. Roskilde Parahistory, 2009
Participants could literally become a nose by borrowing a nose-shaped mask with a built-in audio guide for a walk in the area around Lokale. According to the Nose, 2021
Through these monstrous and bizarre creatures, the work addressed our relationship to more familiar creatures and digital systems that we share the modern technological world with. Mundane Monsters, 2023
The project used artificial intelligence not as a thinking entity, but as a tool filled with errors and biases that could inspire new ways of thinking. Frihed, Lighed Og Hip-Hop, 2023
The work contrasts the artificially generated with the seemingly authentic. Monuments of A Fictitious Past, 2024
"Vladimir's Tongue" is a digital work that distributes Putin's face online by adding it onto viewers' bodies through their webcam. Vladimir's Tongue, 2020
Through web-based platforms, interactive media, and speculative design, the project transforms mundane moments into complex systems of meaning. Day to Day Data, 2008
The project was documented and promoted through Instagram, allowing for continued engagement with the speculative narratives beyond the physical exhibition period. Mr. Spray, 2024
All 3D-printed in R-PETG and painted with urethane. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026
At the Edge II is supported by Kulturrådet, Malmö stad, Region Skåne, and Statens Kunstfond. Even the City Dreams of Being Another, 2025
The exhibition was noted for providing a rare opportunity to interact with cutting-edge technology in a gallery setting. Mundane Monsters, 2022
The work took the form of an artist's book featuring a 3D-printed signal crayfish sculpture on the cover. Signal_Crayfish, 2021
Instead of treating these models as definitive or universal, the project approaches them as partial and provisional—open to reinterpretation, modification, and play. Diffused States (Vancouver), 2025
The exhibition was curated by Ida Schyum as the third presentation in Radar Contemporary's Extensions series. Signal_Crayfish, 2021
The work consists of more than 30 screens distributed throughout the campus, each showing a real-time visualisation of the institution’s invisible infrastructures. A Body Has Many Members, 2012
Mundane Monsters was presented as part of Epsilon Spires' 2022 programming, which included 68 events focused on bringing cutting-edge creative work from around the world to southern Vermont. Mundane Monsters, 2022
A multidisciplinary team including architects, artists, designers, engineers, musicians and literary theorists collaborated with Bojen and Ørum to jointly create this immersive vision. Radiant Copenhagen, 2009
The project’s online component was crafted with HTML, CSS, and Flash as a web-based work. contributors included Maja Zander; Kaspar Bonnén; Stig W Jørgensen; Palle R. Radiant Copenhagen, 2009
At the same time, I know how effective these images are. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025
Pages were loaded sequentially or at random, with intervals that gave visitors time to recognise and reflect on the material. Auto Navigate My History, 2014
These moments reflect our own unstable, contradictory digital selves. Speaker 1, 2026