Kristoffer Ørum
A documentary practice. Every work here has an address and a date.
Research. Somebody is going to have to examine it.
Some of it only exists as a photograph now.
A PhD student. Human-AI Collaboration, Copenhagen University, until 2028.
An artist who makes things up about real places.
A teacher who keeps a studio in order to have something to teach from.
By working with AI models trained on biased and incomplete datasets, DIFFUSED STATES engages with both their limitations and their possibilities. Diffused States (Vancouver), 2025
Call-outs have of course played an important role in making injustices visible, but when they are based on an idea of moral purity, they also create distance. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025
The work asks how we can imagine a future after the welfare state, now that it seems to be definitively being dismantled. Melting State, 2020
The project builds on Ørum's ongoing work "Freedom, Liberty, and Hip-Hop," which envisions alternative Danish histories. Monuments of A Fictitious Past, 2024
When compositional and editorial hierarchies are systematically dismantled, how does the perceived importance of visual information change? Watershed, 2025
Rather than illustrating a lost history, the project manipulates familiar visual tropes and embraces the productive errors of AI. Aarhus'er #1, 2025
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
Instead of showing only what is lost when a human is translated into data, these moments offer a new perspective. Speaker 1, 2026
Some elements are only revealed through exploration, others remain invisible, and a hidden part of the project can be discovered by persistent visitors. Topographies of the Insignificant, 2010
The exhibition opened on Friday, November 8th, 2019. Listening Without Ears, 2019
Spray was the third part of a multi-year project that began with "Tank Hip-Hop" at Retro Avantgarde in Kongegaarder and continued with "Freedom, Equality, and Hip-Hop" at Sydhavn Station in November 2023. Mr. Spray, 2024
In the work, a series of news broadcasts are presented by a talking carrot. Search for Carrot ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, 2006
The work combines AI-generated imagery with human-written captions, forming a dispersed narrative around how such systems might emerge—from grassroots tinkering to collectively governed infrastructures and hyper-local training data. Diffused States (Vancouver), 2025
Her home was a makeshift cardboard shelter resembling her head. The Ballehage Woman, 2009
The project features a map and website highlighting 16 reinterpreted locations in Aalborg. Aalborg Is The Future, 2024
The code sets the procedure, but the visual outcomes remain emergent and unpredictable. Watershed, 2025
All masks were thoroughly cleaned and sprayed with disinfectant after each user, with lending against deposit such as a driver's license or telephone. According to the Nose, 2021
Diffused States was presented as part of *Data Fluencies: Tributaries*, curated by Roopa Vasudevan, which brought together artists working on the ways data can be resisted, rerouted, or reimagined outside dominant narratives. Diffused States (Vancouver), 2025
As one deciphers mud from the ground that has been smeared onto the wall in the shape of geometric letterforms, dust from the building site made up of particles that were once buildings enters one's lungs. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022
The work was presented at NLH Space in Copenhagen, which was run by The Organisation – Association for Artistic and Curatorial Platforms. Et Andet Rum 2, 2009
The resulting images visualise how computers perceive individuals not as whole people but as patterns within datasets. Recognised Faces, 2014
It opened SYMPTOM, a programme of four exhibitions held in the hospital's own rooms. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026
Disbelieving Gravity is an interactive online game created for the Net.Specific exhibition Communication Paths. Disbelieving Gravity, 2013
The aesthetic of this space is deliberately glitchy and non-photorealistic. Watershed, 2025
As the lecture unfolded, the lecturer (actor Kristian Husted) gradually transformed from a detached academic into a man consumed by his subject. The Pattern In Us All, 2007
*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
At the moment the building site is a site of overlapping and contested imaginaries and Brownfield Wonderland is a celebration of this brief moment where two ideas of what a city is coexist. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022
The signs Prognose eller kaos (Prognosis or Chaos) and a second Leddyrsomsorg in the gallery. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026
The resulting work consists of around 600 interlinked texts, images and videos. Topographies of the Insignificant, 2010
Part of Ørum’s ongoing project "Freedom, Equality, and Hip-Hop", the work engages AI technologies (Flux.1, Stable Diffusion 3.5) to construct histories that never were. Aalborg Is The Future, 2024
Everyday objects were recognisable yet altered. Mundane Heroics, 2019
It was curated by Nanna Lysholt-Hansen and supported by Vesterbro Lokaludvalg. Et Andet Rum 2, 2009
The project was documented in the publication "Radar Contemporary: Extensions vol I II III" by Dr. Signal_Crayfish, 2021
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
It combines Live Action Role Playing (LARP), performance art, and sculpture, developed in close collaboration with young participants from across the Nordic region. Mundane Heroics, 2019
Auto Navigate My History is a software-based installation that replays the artist’s own browser history from the past year. Auto Navigate My History, 2014
Original photographs were by Henrik Grønborg, with exhibition photography by Billedmageren. Depth Estimation, 2019
Shown alongside Honey Biba Beckerlee, Anna Bak, Elina Brotherus and Wang & Söderström, among others. Affluence without abundance, 2025
Retired factory workers repurpose their technical knowledge to build speakers and maintain audio infrastructure, passing skills across generations. Even the City Dreams of Being Another, 2025
It presented a dystopian scenario where computer-generated body fragments and singing microwave ovens suggested a post-human future. The End of the Universe as We Know It?, 2007