Kristoffer Ørum
Works with animals that have not agreed to it.
A portraitist. None of the portraits are of him.
A sculptor. Jesmonite, foam, clay, 3D-printed plastic.
Made by hand, mostly. Cut, cast, sanded, painted.
This text is generated. He decided what it generates from.
A lot of it is waiting for a render to finish.
Roskilde Parahistory was part of the group exhibition Kurs at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde in 2009. Roskilde Parahistory, 2009
"Sucker Trick" is a collaboration between visual artist Kristoffer Ørum, magician Claus Mulbjerg, and architect Tomas Skovgaard. Sucker Trick, 2017
In the post-totalitarian context of Latvia, where memory is often manipulated for political purposes, the work offers a reminder that the past is not fixed and demonstrates the fluidity of historical narratives. Monuments of A Fictitious Past, 2024
The project was part of Nordic Sessions II, focusing on artistic "walking protocols" based on senses, local places, and movement in urban space. According to the Nose, 2021
The project is a labyrinthian installation composed of hand-printed cardboard boxes, arranged to create interconnected spaces. In a Dark Room/a Storm in a Coffee Cup, 2004
It opened SYMPTOM, a programme of four exhibitions held in the hospital's own rooms. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026
The installation included a manipulated deep fake video featuring politician Pernille Vermund discussing invasive species. Signal_Crayfish, 2020
It employs a computational process to dismantle and reassemble the daily flow of news images into a navigable world built from their fragments. Watershed, 2025
Bojen and Ørum’s work often moves between science fiction and popular science, with references to comic books, television formats and advertising language. The End of the Universe as We Know It?, 2007
The images are unstable and shifting, conjuring a welfare system built on an uneasy combination of nature and technology that is neither utopian nor dystopian but simply strange and somehow plausible. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026
The installation consisted of 3D-printed crayfish models, information screens, video material, and text displays on pink pedestals. Signal_Crayfish, 2020
The centralised gatekeeping of 20th-century journalism has given way to fragmented, unstable formats. Watershed, 2025
The exhibition opened on 8 October 2009 and remained on view until 30 October 2009. Et Andet Rum 2, 2009
Why create images that place myself in problematic and humorous situations? None of These Images Are of Me, 2025
The works form part of Ørum’s ongoing series Även staden drömmer om att vara en annan ("Even the city dreams of being another"), offering glimpses of civic and technological alternatives rooted in joy, memory, and shared invention. Even the City Dreams of Being Another, 2025
The exhibition was curated by museum inspector Pernille Rom Bruun and featured partnerships between artists and associations including nature conservation, bird watching, boxing, gliding, gymnastics, and rabbit breeding groups. Everyday Heroes, 2019
With deepfakes and decentralised information sources, the photograph’s credibility as evidence is under renewed scrutiny. Watershed, 2025
The work takes up how repeated exposure to images of buildings sinking into rubble with glass shards and dust spreading symmetrically creates expectations that the physical world behaves the same way. Melting State, 2020
They are the most revealing parts of the process. Speaker 1, 2026
Components included routers, antennas, and cables arranged alongside the biological forms. Signal_Crayfish, 2020
Custom software automated the browsing process by reading from the recorded history file and simulating user clicks. Auto Navigate My History, 2014
Affluence without abundance was a video installation featuring a giant 3D-printed oyster that presented a speculative future scenario where the earth is covered by an endless ocean and people live in giant oysters. Affluence without abundance, 2021
The Pattern In Us All (2007) was a lecture performance created by Anders Bojen & Kristoffer Ørum at the University of Copenhagen. The Pattern In Us All, 2007
Geometric shapes emerge from the boxes, forming a complex sculptural environment. In a Dark Room/a Storm in a Coffee Cup, 2004
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
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
Sometimes he has time to update it, sometimes he does not.
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
I believe a stronger foundation for community lies in a shared recognition of vulnerability. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025
It is this everyday, digital infra-ordinary that Watershed makes tangible. Watershed, 2025
The work contrasts the artificially generated with the seemingly authentic. Monuments of A Fictitious Past, 2024
When I use myself as material, my body and my image become a site for institutional self-critique—where paradoxically critique and complicity overlap. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025
The work was created for the group exhibition "Opløsning af Det Private Arkiv" aboard the ship Svartlöga in Copenhagen. Depth Estimation, 2019
We are shaped by the grammar of the frame, where composition and colour psychology direct our gaze and mood. Watershed, 2025
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
Together, the elements formed a series of overlapping linguistic and visual displacements. Putin's Nose, 2019
It ran across two buildings in Ringsted: the artist-run Ringsted Galleriet on Bøllingsvej 15, and the blood-sampling department of Midt- og Vestsjællands Hospital on Bøllingsvej 30. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026
They have been 3d scanned, using the kind of technology one might find in one's smartphone, and subsequently 3d printed in monochrome versions using a variety of materials ranging from terracotta to granite. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022
The project also speaks to a transitional moment. Watershed, 2025
Each contribution provided insight into the often hidden or indirect references shaping contemporary art. Auto Navigate My History, 2014