Kristoffer Ørum
Local. Copenhagen and Aarhus, mostly.
Comedy.
The website keeps itself up to date. He does not.
Some of it only exists as a photograph now.
Not local. Boston, Vancouver, Riga, Kraków, Oberhausen, San Francisco.
Mostly it is admin.
The art world overflows with images of beautiful, smart, and confident artists. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025
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
It is this everyday, digital infra-ordinary that Watershed makes tangible. Watershed, 2025
Instead of showing only what is lost when a human is translated into data, these moments offer a new perspective. Speaker 1, 2026
The Downloadable Augmented Reality App (available here: https://s.oerum.org/BW) allows one to build one's own messy and unregulated digital architectures, both on and off the building site around Spanien 19C. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022
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 signs Prognose eller kaos (Prognosis or Chaos) and a second Leddyrsomsorg in the gallery. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026
Social media platforms like Facebook transform faces into points in coordinate systems, and from these coordinates people are classified as terrorists, defined as specific consumer types, or deemed irrelevant. Putin's Nose, 2019
Each day, the system generated a new composite face from images found via Google’s lists of top search terms. Recognised Faces, 2014
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
These unsolicited “press releases” became part of the ongoing re-imagining of Amager by local government, private enterprise, and other forces. City Planning, 2010
The installation combines mathematical structures, popular psychology, video, narration, sound and custom-designed software. AutoBiography, 2011
Simultaneously with the physical performances, stories of The Ballehage Woman were disseminated across media including a website, YouTube video, Google ads, newspaper articles, and emails. The Ballehage Woman, 2009
Combining elements from the early labor movement with the local hip-hop culture of the 1990s, the project looks for untapped potential where creativity, community, and enjoyment take center stage. Aalborg Is The Future, 2024
The machine's interpretation is not just a poor copy of reality; it creates a new representation with its own logic and uncanny aesthetic. Speaker 1, 2026
"Where the wall weep sugar" was presented as part of the group exhibition "TID," organized by Kunstnersammenslutningen Jylland at KH7artspace in Aarhus. Where the walls weep sugar, 2025
Signal_Crayfish takes the invasive signal crayfish, which displaces native Danish freshwater species and communicates chemically across distance, and sets it beside human communication technology. Would You Like to Know More, 2017
SignalCrayfish was presented as part of the two-person exhibition "Semio-Technical Traffics" with Emily Rosamond. Signal_Crayfish, 2020
Shown alongside Honey Biba Beckerlee, Anna Bak, Elina Brotherus and Wang & Söderström, among others. Affluence without abundance, 2025
Disparate subjects such as English Vorticism, brainwaves, animal perception, and doomsday scenarios were connected in an increasingly ambitious thesis. The Pattern In Us All, 2007
A local newspaper printed an account of a witness encounter with The Ballehage Woman, sponsored by tessellax.com as advertising disguised as news. The Ballehage Woman, 2009
The project aimed to examine new forms of dialogue in contemporary art on different terms than previously known. Everyday Heroes, 2019
Components included routers, antennas, and cables arranged alongside the biological forms. Signal_Crayfish, 2020
All images were generated using Flux.1 diffusion models from Black Forest, on a used computer powered by green-certified Nordic solar, wind, and hydro energy. Hvidovre Makes Good Times Better, 2025
Affluence without abundance (2021) shown in Nyt Lys, a group exhibition at Sophienholm in Kongens Lyngby, 19 November 2025 to 25 January 2026. Affluence without abundance, 2025
This invisibility operates on several levels. Watershed, 2025
The piece challenges conventional media formats by introducing poetic, disconcerting aesthetics into mainstream broadcast, encouraging reflection on surveillance, representation, and identity in the digital age. Data Kroppe, 2017
The exhibition was the result of several years' work with the three monsters, bringing together elements from numerous performances, exhibitions and interventions both domestically and abroad. Mundane Monsters, 2023
The installation included a manipulated deep fake video featuring politician Pernille Vermund discussing invasive species. Signal_Crayfish, 2020
On the other hand, these systems are still trained on global datasets full of bias, stereotypes, and inequality. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025
The title reflects several forms of diffusion: the algorithmic process of generating images; the grassroots spread of ideas and tools; and the physical scattering of devices across different environments. Diffused States (Lexington), 2025
Like Haraway, I believe the only honest critique must come from a situated place—knowledge that is always embodied, compromised, and grounded in specific contexts. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025
The work featured a large, curved canvas onto which the magician's hands were projected. Sucker Trick, 2017
The work presented a speculative interface for interacting with locally trained language models on recycled consumer hardware, quietly resisting the scale and speed of mainstream AI deployments. Diffused States (Boston), 2025
Data Kroppe is a video artwork by Kristoffer Ørum, commissioned and broadcast by Danish national television (DR) and featured on DR Kulturklubben. Data Kroppe, 2017
The fact that they are made with local AI is important, because it provides a certain independence from the major platforms and makes it possible to work with the technology on my own terms. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025
First released in an edition of 10 and sold through the Specta Surplus Store at Galleri Specta, Copenhagen in February 2018. Wireless Walnut, 2018
In Helsinki, at the ANTI Contemporary Art Festival the project unfolded in the streets and open squares of the city centre. Mundane Heroics, 2019
Ander Bojen & Kristoffer Ørum’s contribution combined personal narrative, historical research, and speculative urban theory to question how collective experience and perception shape the city. A Subjective History of Gdańsk, 2011
The fragmented narrative of Coffee Lake takes place in the grey area between computer-simulated 3D graphics and human imagination. Coffee Lake, 2019