Kristoffer Ørum

Kristoffer Ørum

The website keeps itself up to date. He does not.

A documentary practice. Every work here has an address and a date.

Nothing digital about it. A screen is an object, and objects sit in rooms.

A sculptor. Jesmonite, foam, clay, 3D-printed plastic.

Works with machines that are confidently wrong.

A lot of it is waiting for a render to finish.

The project also responds critically to the historical metaphors of the human body as a model for political and social order. A Body Has Many Members, 2012

In a parallel way, Watershed treats the algorithm as a collaborator. Watershed, 2025

Bænkebider flok (Woodlouse Flock) on the floor. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026

"It Sings for Us of What We Might Become" is a specially commissioned performative lecture presented as part of the symposium "ScreenShots: Desire and Automated Image" at Kunsthal Aarhus. It Sings for Us of What We Might Become, 2019

It is this everyday, digital infra-ordinary that Watershed makes tangible. Watershed, 2025

The work successfully expanded the "Freedom, Equality and Hip-Hop" series into new institutional and performance contexts. Mr. Spray, 2024

A Subjective History of Gdańsk is a hallucinatory and subjective presentation of the city of Gdańsk in Poland, a place historically shaped by competing ideologies that have repeatedly renamed and reconstructed it. A Subjective History of Gdańsk, 2011

Children and young people modified everyday objects such as chairs, umbrellas, tools, or clothing into hybrid sculptural forms. Mundane Heroics, 2019

The liquid stains my hands when I reach into the vegetable drawer. Qua Aqua (Beetroot Texts), 2017

The work utilises the props and techniques of an academic presentation in a playful and open-ended manner, examining present-day culture of classification and the potential of letting go of control. It Sings for Us of What We Might Become, 2019

The work was part of the group exhibition "Perpetual Interpreter" at Lokale in Copenhagen, co-curated with Anders Visti. Listening Without Ears, 2019

Each scanning session lasted approximately 30 minutes and included conversations between pet owners and the artist about their animals. The Kolding Creature, 2021

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

As a result, it is now defunct and can no longer be accessed in its original form. Topographies of the Insignificant, 2010

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

In art and activism, humour has repeatedly functioned as a way of exposing the absurdity of power—from Dadaist performances to contemporary meme cultures. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025

At the same time, these messages were automatically sent to random email addresses in the local Amager area near the gallery. City Planning, 2010

The exhibition was noted for providing a rare opportunity to interact with cutting-edge technology in a gallery setting. Mundane Monsters, 2022

Presented as a manual for the Scope 3000, it included both a personality test based on pattern perception and a how-to guide for the device. The Pattern In Us All, 2007

The project was documented in the publication "Radar Contemporary: Extensions vol I II III" by Dr. Signal_Crayfish, 2021

The exhibition Coming From took place from 23 August to 14 September 2014, with an opening on 22 August. Auto Navigate My History, 2014

Layers of paint, repurposed tools, and collective modifications create temporary architectural shifts, reflecting the rhythms of everyday life and shared space. Even the City Dreams of Being Another, 2025

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

During the exhibition, the carefully worded original English text on the exhibition space’s website was gradually replaced by an unstable bilingual text, one sentence at a time. Blind Listening, 2017

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 show aimed to make the realm of coded instructions, programming languages, software protocols, electrical signals and logical operations available to aesthetic experience. Listening Without Ears, 2019

The project was supported by research conducted at Aarhus University as part of an ongoing investigation into the aesthetic dimensions of computational processes and automated interpretation systems. Listening Without Ears, 2019

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

I participate in the system myself because it can grant me access to freedom and resources. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025

Components included routers, antennas, and cables arranged alongside the biological forms. Signal_Crayfish, 2020

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

In collaboration with local live role-players, Anders Bojen and Kristoffer Ørum created a fictitious universe whose rules and borders were only fully known to its participants. Game Continent, 2010

An urban planning term for any previously developed land that is not currently in use. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022

The collaboration involved fieldwork where Ørum spent time with the role-playing association in their regular activities, including battles in Hansted Forest and gaming sessions. Everyday Heroes, 2019

Today, images are filtered, analysed, and manipulated by systems we rarely notice or understand. Watershed, 2025

They are the most revealing parts of the process. Speaker 1, 2026

It operates in a zone where phenomena such as computer screens, lakes of coffee, simulated fire, and collective machines all influence our conceptions and expectations of the physical world. Coffee Lake, 2019

The work takes up how electronic systems constantly push at our understanding of who we are, our history and context, suggesting that their constant misunderstanding provides opportunities to see the world with fresh eyes. Feathered Misconceptions, 2018

DIFFUSED STATES imagines an alternative trajectory for artificial intelligence—one in which computational systems develop through local, small-scale infrastructures rather than centralised corporate platforms. Diffused States (Lexington), 2025

The Ballehage Woman was created by Anders Bojen and Kristoffer Ørum for the outdoor sculpture exhibition Sculpture by the Sea, organised by AROS Museum in Aarhus in 2009. The Ballehage Woman, 2009

Recognised Faces
Recognised Faces See the work →