Kristoffer Ørum
Comedy.
A sculptor. Jesmonite, foam, clay, 3D-printed plastic.
An artist who makes things up about real places.
An archive with gaps in it, kept by the person who made the gaps.
Science fiction, set last week.
A lot of it is waiting for a render to finish.
The work was exhibited at Vejle Kunstmuseum from March to August 2020, then at Holstebro Kunstmuseum from September 2020 to January 2021. Signal_Crayfish, 2020
Created in 2019, the work was exhibited by Radar Contemporary as an online piece. Vladimir's Tongue, 2020
The exhibition took place in various locations throughout the ship, including the forecastle, aft cabin, engine room, and deck. Depth Estimation, 2019
Spray was presented as both an exhibition and performance at Friisland's Center for Performance Art during Art Matter festival. Mr. Spray, 2024
Rather than illustrating a lost history, the project manipulates familiar visual tropes and embraces the productive errors of AI. Aarhus'er #1, 2025
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
While not free from environmental impact, this approach reflects an effort to minimize resource use and ecological harm in the project’s production. Hvidovre Makes Good Times Better, 2025
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 work consists of more than 30 screens distributed throughout the campus, each showing a real-time visualisation of the institution’s invisible infrastructures. A Body Has Many Members, 2012
The performance concludes with Google's speech recognition continuously but often mistakenly transcribing what the lecturer says, with colours changing rhythmically each time the text updates. Feathered Misconceptions, 2018
Depth Estimation is a 3D printed sculpture made from corn starch with inkjet transfer, based on algorithmic depth estimation of a photograph. Depth Estimation, 2019
Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care is a twenty-minute video, one of nine works Ørum showed in FORSTADIER / Precursors — a duo exhibition with Aske Thiberg, curated by Morten K Jacobsen and Heidi Hove. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026
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
As Rosi Braidotti has written, critique of the “tyranny of the unified subject” cannot be separated from the fact that we constantly reproduce the very idea of it. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025
These scenes combined role play, sculpture, and performance into temporary worlds accessible to anyone passing by. Mundane Heroics, 2019
I also do it because local AI is itself an impure position. None of These Images Are of Me, 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
The project questioned human privilege by highlighting the sophisticated communication systems of non-human species that operate beyond human perception. Signal_Crayfish, 2021
Across media, the fictional creatures were presented with a mixture of pop cultural humour and the kind of scientific authority familiar from public information campaigns. Mundane Monsters, 2023
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
The project constructed a local myth about a deformed outcast living in a park frequented by wealthy residents. The Ballehage Woman, 2009
Components included routers, antennas, and cables arranged alongside the biological forms. Signal_Crayfish, 2020
The liquid stains my hands when I reach into the vegetable drawer. Qua Aqua (Beetroot Texts), 2017
The book presents ten different pattern scenarios, ranging from animal vision and camouflage to government propaganda through patterned textiles. Once We All Walk through Solid Objects, 2007
Melting State is a video installation on three screens where the buildings of Statens Kunstfond, Det Kongelige Kunstakademi, and Kulturministeriet are subjected to computer-generated physics simulations. Melting State, 2020
The opening included a performance component set in an alternative past, presenting counterfactual work that narrated fictional relationships between political movements and cultural expression. Mr. Spray, 2024
The art world overflows with images of beautiful, smart, and confident artists. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025
Like collage, the work is not about arriving at a definitive meaning but about generating provisional configurations that open new ways of seeing. Watershed, 2025
The work used artificial intelligence as a tool for speculative storytelling about Danish social and political history. Mr. Spray, 2024
Artists were invited through an open call to create works in dialogue with the water-damaged photographs. Depth Estimation, 2019
It opened SYMPTOM, a programme of four exhibitions held in the hospital's own rooms. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026
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
The centralised gatekeeping of 20th-century journalism has given way to fragmented, unstable formats. Watershed, 2025
The machinic as a format for both production and display runs as a common thread through his practice. Coffee Lake, 2019
Blind Listening was presented as part of *I would prefer not to*, an exhibition at Meter (Copenhagen) on the potential of the non-productive, the meaningless, and the functional. Blind Listening, 2017
The plate facing it is green and reads "I cheer as the pink-green crayfish team score a goal", over a passage about crayfish sending messages to each other across the same wireless networks that carry a live football game. Signal_Crayfish, 2026
Players learn a new language through twelve game-based exercises, each designed to deliberately reinterpret established ideas and challenge conventional understanding. Disbelieving Gravity, 2013
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
Et Andet Rum 2 is a site-specific 3D animation by Anders Bojen and Kristoffer Ørum. Et Andet Rum 2, 2009
*Radiant Copenhagen* was a speculative reimagining of the city developed as an online platform and complemented by real-world actions. Radiant Copenhagen, 2009