Kristoffer Ørum
Not a joke.
A record-keeper. The website is the work.
Not local. Boston, Vancouver, Riga, Kraków, Oberhausen, San Francisco.
An artist who makes things up about real places.
Mostly it is admin.
Research. Somebody is going to have to examine it.
At the neighbouring Museum Østjylland, speculative objects were integrated into the historical displays, including a model of an "oyster home" and interventions within exhibits about Grenå's local oyster history. Djurs Øhav, 2020
The Good, the Lost, and the Beautiful is a reconstruction of the Lee-stone, one of nine runestones believed to have been lost in the Copenhagen Fire of 1728. The Good, the Lost, and the Beautiful, 2025
The code sets the procedure, but the visual outcomes remain emergent and unpredictable. Watershed, 2025
Anders Bojen and Kristoffer Ørum investigate the hidden systems, routines, and traces that ordinary objects and personal behaviors generate, from domestic habits to browsing histories and household interactions. Day to Day Data, 2008
NLHspace was initiated in 2006 by artist Nanna Lysholt Hansen and operated as an "always open / always closed" space. Et Andet Rum 2, 2009
The video Computer-generated video and sound, 20 min, made with WAN 2.1 on a local RTX 4090, projected on the end wall of a darkened gallery. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026
The project formed part of a research collaboration between the participating museums and the University of Copenhagen. Signal_Crayfish, 2020
The project continued to develop as a multi-year work, with subsequent presentations including "Mr. Frihed, Lighed Og Hip-Hop, 2023
The installation combines mathematical structures, popular psychology, video, narration, sound and custom-designed software. AutoBiography, 2011
Even the City Dreams of Being Another is part of the exhibition At the Edge II, presented at Skene in Malmö. Even the City Dreams of Being Another, 2025
Some pieces he remembers to add, others he forgets.
AI makes it possible for me to be several people at once. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025
A central relief on the reconstructed stone, possibly once a hammer, is reimagined here as a spray can, folding historical reference into playful anachronism. The Good, the Lost, and the Beautiful, 2025
The project began the process of using advanced imaging technology and AI as fabulation techniques to create speculative scenarios where the labour movement and hip-hop culture intersected. Tank Hip-Hop, 2022
The work was reviewed in The Brooklyn Rail and included in a panel discussion about interspecies publications created during the pandemic. Signal_Crayfish, 2021
From advertising screens on buses to personal mobile phones, we are daily surrounded by lifelike computer-generated representations of physical phenomena. Melting State, 2020
At the hospital: Gør din pligt og kræv din udredning (Do Your Duty and Demand Your Assessment) and Diagnose gør stærk (Diagnosis Makes You Strong) in the corridor, Frihed, lighed & symptom (Liberty, Equality & Symptom) in the waiting room. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026
Anders Bojen and Kristoffer Ørum focus on Isaac Newton’s theory of gravity and the metaphors and assumptions surrounding it. Disbelieving Gravity, 2013
The exhibition at Kunsthal for Maritim Æstetik included a large 3D-printed map depicting Djursland as a flooded archipelago and smaller objects like a 3D-printed oyster with eyes. Djurs Øhav, 2020
One night I dreamt that the cancer might turn the Russian president into a crab, or perhaps a crayfish, and woke to a report that he was dying of cancer. A Human Pretending To Be An Artist Pretending To Be A Crayfish, 2022
The collaboration process involved both artists visiting associations for fieldwork and associations visiting the museum for workshop days that became the foundation for the exhibited artworks. Everyday Heroes, 2019
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
In this way, Ørum reconsidered the relationship between national identity, food, body and surveillance, hoping to open up an identity model where it is possible to be foreign, Danish, body and digital representation at the same time. Putin's Nose, 2019
The installation included various nose-related works including "My Nose", "Nose detector", and "Nose Archive", alongside "Face of Russia". Putins Nose, 2018
What emerges is a narrative of the self that is both enacted and undermined by an indifferent system — an algorithmic account of personality, filtered through the lenses of psychology, technology and cultural expectation. AutoBiography, 2011
One is pink and perforated, carrying a crown and, in mirror writing, "Find them, eat them & enjoy them" — the Danish Nature Agency's advice on the invasive signal crayfish. Signal_Crayfish, 2026
The work presented a speculative interface for interacting with locally trained language models on recycled consumer hardware, quietly resisting the scale and speed of mainstream AI deployments. Diffused States (Boston), 2025
Instead of being representations in a conventional sense, they functioned as productions of effects, transforming the exhibition space into an operational field based on concepts such as energy, velocity, and transformation. Coffee Lake, 2019
The Glyptotek building emerges from darkness with its solid architecture beginning to flow whilst first hair and then colourful feathers grow out of the building, transforming it. Feathered Misconceptions, 2018
While gentrification night favour one imagined future out of all the others that could have come about, the ongoing struggle of whose imaginaries will be realised, and whose will be kept as potential or unrealistic futures, remains. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022
Ørum's contribution used algorithmic depth estimation to analyse one of the recovered photographs and generate a three-dimensional interpretation. Depth Estimation, 2019
By slowing down the act of viewing, the project alters the relationship between attention and imagery. Watershed, 2025
These moments reflect our own unstable, contradictory digital selves. Speaker 1, 2026
"Sucker Trick" is a collaboration between visual artist Kristoffer Ørum, magician Claus Mulbjerg, and architect Tomas Skovgaard. Sucker Trick, 2017
One was an animated video about life inside an oyster. Djurs Øhav, 2020
The work was part of the group exhibition "Perpetual Interpreter" at Lokale in Copenhagen, co-curated with Anders Visti. Listening Without Ears, 2019
To launch the project, staged reality events and a guided bus tour extended its speculative narrative into the physical city. Radiant Copenhagen, 2009
*AutoBiography* is a video installation by Anders Bojen and Kristoffer Ørum in which the artists rewrite their biographies through a mathematical system that continuously generates unstable interpretations of their identities. AutoBiography, 2011
The project served as the conceptual foundation for later work on how artificial intelligence could be used to create alternative historical narratives about Danish society. Tank Hip-Hop, 2022
Components included routers, antennas, and cables arranged alongside the biological forms. Signal_Crayfish, 2020