Kristoffer Ørum
Not local. Boston, Vancouver, Riga, Kraków, Oberhausen, San Francisco.
Made by hand, mostly. Cut, cast, sanded, painted.
Works with animals that have not agreed to it.
A documentary practice. Every work here has an address and a date.
The website keeps itself up to date. He does not.
Local. Copenhagen and Aarhus, mostly.
Diffused States imagines a counterfactual technological history in which graffiti and phone phreaking converged through the discovery that modified spray paint could interact with electromagnetic infrastructure. Diffused States (Boston), 2025
The exhibition featured wall art contributions by artist Anders Reventlov alongside AI-generated narratives. Mr. Spray, 2024
The goal is not to retell the news but to reorganise its visual material according to a logic other than the ones to which we have become habituated. Watershed, 2025
With modified lawnmowers, they cut public lawns and compressed the grass to extract chlorophyll, the “magic potion” that enabled them to carry out new missions. Game Continent, 2010
The second ten minutes show a baby sleeping, curled peacefully against a blue woodlouse. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026
The taste of the titanium pigment which is also used as a whitening agent in milk and sugar. Qua Aqua (Beetroot Texts), 2017
In their new form they remain recognisable both as having been a part of structures that no longer exist and as potential building blocks for future structures. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022
The presenter introduces himself as Karsten Orth (deliberately mispronouncing his own name), welcomes the audience and discusses the boundary between inside and outside in the Glyptotek's winter garden. Feathered Misconceptions, 2018
Stasm detects the position of 77 facial landmarks on upright, front-facing human faces with neutral expressions. Recognised Faces, 2014
We are steered by algorithms that curate which images reach us. Watershed, 2025
The system operated continuously throughout the exhibition, looping through the history without direct interaction. Auto Navigate My History, 2014
The installation drew from actual environmental concerns about invasive species whilst incorporating fictional elements related to digital communication networks and surveillance technologies. Signal_Crayfish, 2020
Lesson plans, assessment structures and financial data are translated into dynamic graphics, situating the institution in relation to broader societal forces and its individual members. A Body Has Many Members, 2012
Two folders, with texts by medical historian Adam Bencard and by Kristoffer Ørum, printed inkjet and held in 3D-printed R-PETG holders in both buildings. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026
The resulting text alternated between objective and scientific passages and poetic or raving narratives. Roskilde Parahistory, 2009
The work renders the fragile and transient qualities of soap in digital animation, turning an everyday material into a dynamic, projected environment. Soap Particles, 2005
Running small, open systems on one’s own hardware provides a degree of autonomy and technological self-determination. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025
The starting point was the woodlouse as a kind of care worker. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026
The Downloadable Augmented Reality App (available here: https://s.oerum.org/BW) allows one to build one's own messy and unregulated digital architectures, both on and off the building site around Spanien 19C. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022
Children and young people modified everyday objects such as chairs, umbrellas, tools, or clothing into hybrid sculptural forms. Mundane Heroics, 2019
The project also speaks to a transitional moment. Watershed, 2025
Blind Listening was presented as part of *I would prefer not to*, an exhibition at Meter (Copenhagen) on the potential of the non-productive, the meaningless, and the functional. Blind Listening, 2017
Installation took place aboard Svartlöga ship functioning as gallery space. Ebeltoft After The Flood, 2021
The inkjet transfer process applied the processed imagery to the printed form. Depth Estimation, 2019
Rather than corporate development, this speculative trajectory imagines ternary computing as evolving through grassroots cultures of experimentation and resistance. Diffused States (Boston), 2025
The mud text is a site-specific text that has been made from the place where it has been written, even as it attempts to reimagine and remember this very place. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022
It takes the current development of the site of the art space as its point of departure, arguing for the often-overlooked qualities and potential of brownfield sites like it. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022
Each of the 26 participating artists presented a single work, and the audience was permitted to view each piece for exactly one minute. Where the walls weep sugar, 2025
In this scenario, data does not flow through opaque corporate pipelines, but diffuses through neighbourhood workshops, shared servers, and informal archives. Diffused States (Vancouver), 2025
Despite this, they were largely abandoned in favour of commercially driven binary architectures. Diffused States (Boston), 2025
Erikson’s model of personality development, a voice-over chronicles formative experiences in their lives. AutoBiography, 2011
The publication set out the species' survival capabilities and cross-distance chemical communication systems, positioning the crayfish as superior to human technological networks in this comparison. Signal_Crayfish, 2021
The work was exhibited at Museet for Samtidskunst in Roskilde, Denmark, from 13 January to 19 March 2006. Search for Carrot ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, 2006
Set in three symbolic locations—Folkets Park, Drottninggatan 6, and a speculative Malmö City Hall—the work blends archival research with fiction to propose a reparative reading of urban space. Even the City Dreams of Being Another, 2025
Every Part a Body is a sixty-second digital video, shown in the 60Seconds programme of The Wrong Biennale at CBS Digital Space in March 2026. Every Part a Body, 2026
These scenes combined role play, sculpture, and performance into temporary worlds accessible to anyone passing by. Mundane Heroics, 2019
Taniguchi of veggie-science.org, part of the daytodaydata.com project. Cosmic Carrot, 2005
In return, humans care for the oysters through cleaning, feeding, and gentle maintenance. Affluence without abundance, 2021
The installation combined the physical presence of the large-scale 3D-printed oyster sculpture with video content projecting the voices and experiences of future oyster-dwellers. Affluence without abundance, 2021
The process consistently produced a balance between the familiar and the strange. Mundane Heroics, 2019