Kristoffer Ørum
Not local. Boston, Vancouver, Riga, Kraków, Oberhausen, San Francisco.
Nothing digital about it. A screen is an object, and objects sit in rooms.
Digital art.
Science fiction, set last week.
Works with animals that have not agreed to it.
Local. Copenhagen and Aarhus, mostly.
Alongside the artworks, the programme includes talks, workshops and events on the histories and relevance of these vanished monuments. The Good, the Lost, and the Beautiful, 2025
Her head was made of cardboard squares, and as she walked she produced sad and disturbing sounds audible to late-night strollers and joggers. The Ballehage Woman, 2009
Kristoffer Ørum’s contribution imagines Malmö as shaped by the afterlives of its industrial past and alternative forms of civic imagination. Even the City Dreams of Being Another, 2025
None are permanent, but all leave residues—sonic, material, or narrative. Monuments of a Fictional Past (Kraków Edition), 2025
This duality exposes both the shortcomings of surveillance technologies and the alternative forms of perception they enact, offering a mechanical way of seeing that highlights aspects of our species that human vision alone might overlook. Recognised Faces, 2014
The work used artificial intelligence as a tool for speculative storytelling about Danish social and political history. Mr. Spray, 2024
Over the past year, I have created a series of self-portraits using locally run AI. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025
This breaks with the idea of a coherent and authentic artistic subject—an illusion that the art market is still deeply dependent on. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025
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 exhibition featured wall art contributions by artist Anders Reventlov alongside AI-generated narratives. Mr. Spray, 2024
The site opens on the series title and a single line — "Would you like to know more?" — set in pale green with a cartoon crayfish at the edge of the frame. Would You Like to Know More, 2017
Historical facts, such as names of kings or weather reports, were interwoven with stories of the Rosicrucian Order, royal lizards, and extraterrestrials landing on the outskirts of town. Roskilde Parahistory, 2009
The centralised gatekeeping of 20th-century journalism has given way to fragmented, unstable formats. Watershed, 2025
Once connected to a computer and powered up, the device generates multiple Wi-Fi networks. Wireless Walnut, 2018
The project reflected on the transformation of the district: once a mixed working-class and industrial area, now rapidly becoming an upscale residential neighbourhood. City Planning, 2010
This process dismantles the images into fragments by “flooding” a grayscale version of an image from its darkest points to its lightest, just as rainwater would fill a real-world mountainous landscape from its lowest valleys. Watershed, 2025
Taniguchi of veggie-science.org, part of the daytodaydata.com project. Cosmic Carrot, 2005
Strange audio players and distorted timelines hint at other ways things could have turned out, with hip-hop positioned not as a fixed genre or imported form, but as a set of evolving principles. Aarhus'er #1, 2025
Amorphous forms in PU foam were combined with media players hidden inside. Invisible Objects, 2016
Installation took place aboard Svartlöga ship functioning as gallery space. Ebeltoft After The Flood, 2021
But there is now a third gaze, one that works through calculation. Speaker 1, 2026
Would You Like to Know More is an internet work in the Signal_Crayfish series, published online by Radar Contemporary. Would You Like to Know More, 2017
The work proposes a less apocalyptic demise where representative buildings don't explode and crash into computer-generated rubble, but instead lose their weight, melt, or are covered with colourful hair. Melting State, 2020
The exhibition text calls them blind creatures watching over the exhibition and the people in it. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026
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
The works were presented as productive machines possessing a capacity to carry out operations both as singular units and assembled into larger wholes. Coffee Lake, 2019
The wireless transmissions and video projections created an atmosphere where technology and nature intersected in unexpected ways. Mundane Monsters, 2022
The audience received a hand-out titled The Pattern in Us All: Exposing the Substructures of the World attributed to Kristian Husted. The Pattern In Us All, 2007
The signs Prognose eller kaos (Prognosis or Chaos) and a second Leddyrsomsorg in the gallery. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026
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
The project continued themes from the "Putin's Nose" project, extending nose-based investigations into performative and participatory formats. According to the Nose, 2021
Within the installation, a microclimate experiment is contained in a coffeemaker, adding subtle atmospheric variation to the space. In a Dark Room/a Storm in a Coffee Cup, 2004
Using the fictional device Scope 3000, he ultimately merged with the patterns themselves. The Pattern In Us All, 2007
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
Exhibition aboard the ship Svartlöga at Ebeltoft Fregathavnen examining climate change scenarios where Djursland becomes an archipelago. Ebeltoft After The Flood, 2021
The exhibition featured 26 contemporary artists responding to photographs that had been recovered from the ship Svartlöga after it capsized and sank in August 2018. Depth Estimation, 2019
The sculptures were inspired by the role-players' own objects and toolkit, translating elements from their gaming practice into interactive art objects. Everyday Heroes, 2019
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
Disbelieving Gravity is an interactive online game created for the Net.Specific exhibition Communication Paths. Disbelieving Gravity, 2013
The project's visual materials referenced aesthetics from Djurs Sommerland and airplane safety folders. Djurs Øhav, 2020