Kristoffer Ørum

Kristoffer Ørum

Made by hand, mostly. Cut, cast, sanded, painted.

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

A record-keeper. The website is the work.

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

Mostly it is admin.

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

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

A multidisciplinary team including architects, artists, designers, engineers, musicians and literary theorists collaborated with Bojen and Ørum to jointly create this immersive vision. Radiant Copenhagen, 2009

The work featured a large, curved canvas onto which the magician's hands were projected. Sucker Trick, 2017

The installation drew connections between magic, architecture and eroticism through practices of showing and hiding. Sucker Trick, 2017

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

All 3D-printed in R-PETG and painted with urethane. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026

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

I believe a stronger foundation for community lies in a shared recognition of vulnerability. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025

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

Presented by Anders Bojen and Kristoffer Ørum as part of the MFA 2004 Degree Show at Goldsmiths, London, UK, the work was exhibited from 22 to 26 July 2004. In a Dark Room/a Storm in a Coffee Cup, 2004

The project involved citizen participation in creating the final artwork, with local residents contributing both their pets' physical forms and personal stories. The Kolding Creature, 2021

In The Old Gate at Folkets Park, Malmö’s working-class history is reactivated through DIY sound system cultures. Even the City Dreams of Being Another, 2025

The work contributed to ongoing conversations about how digital images and recognition technologies influence our perception of identity and political power. Putins Nose, 2018

The work was documented in a video presentation and included in the festival’s program alongside other international and local artists working in experimental modes of storytelling and urban critique. A Subjective History of Gdańsk, 2011

By engaging with the game, players experience how facts and assumed truths can be challenged, restructured and rearranged in playful and experimental ways. Disbelieving Gravity, 2013

Putin's Nose worked at the boundary between object and image, examining how digital images not only register meaning but enter physical space to shape identity and power relations. Putins Nose, 2018

Coffee Lake is a video installation combining computer-generated video with animated text, created for the group exhibition "Machine sans nom" at Bonamatic. Coffee Lake, 2019

During the exhibition a collaboration with Anders Bojen, a printer continuously produced emails describing fictional events taking place on Amager. City Planning, 2010

A computer transcribes the audio files it has captured and translates them into Danish, before uploading the text to Meter’s homepage. Blind Listening, 2017

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

This forms a new layer of mediation—one that is constant, pervasive, and almost invisible. Watershed, 2025

The performance questions traditional notions of heroic bodies and monochrome histories, imagining instead non-heroic bodies in soft, feathered institutions that function as part of a collective ecosystem. Feathered Misconceptions, 2018

Players are encouraged to question the presumed truth of gravity and their own assumptions, gradually adopting a new perspective through interactive challenges. Disbelieving Gravity, 2013

This video asks a question that sits at the heart of our digital lives: how do we appear to a machine? Speaker 1, 2026

Each of the 26 participating artists presented a single work, and the audience was permitted to view each piece for exactly one minute. Where the walls weep sugar, 2025

The taste of the titanium pigment which is also used as a whitening agent in milk and sugar. Qua Aqua (Beetroot Texts), 2017

It was accompanied by scholarly publication and received coverage in Danish art press. Signal_Crayfish, 2020

The 3D printed objects served as camouflaged recording devices, appearing as innocuous everyday items while performing the technical operation of speech-to-text conversion. Listening Without Ears, 2019

The installation used various media to investigate how technology shapes our understanding of faces, identity, and political figures. Putins Nose, 2018

I also do it because I, as a white, established, middle-aged male artist, embody many of the privileges and blind spots that shape both the world and the art world. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025

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

Deconstructed 2D news images drift across a constructed 3D landscape, never pretending to be windows onto reality. Watershed, 2025

The project exploited technological imperfections to imagine an improved future by manipulating AI's original commercial intent. Frihed, Lighed Og Hip-Hop, 2023

While you are reading this text, which has been designed to be unreadable by computers, everything that is said in this room is being recorded. Blind Listening, 2017

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

Auto Navigate My History uses the digital archive of daily browsing as both source and medium. Auto Navigate My History, 2014

At the same time, I know how effective these images are. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025

The selected sites appear to lack history or unique features, yet they contain complex layers of information and hidden connections. Topographies of the Insignificant, 2010

The question it starts from is what kinds of monuments we need today. Monuments of a Fictional Past (Kraków Edition), 2025

Especially simulations of destruction are so widespread and credible that one quickly forgets what the original physical phenomena looked like. Melting State, 2020

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