Kristoffer Ørum
Some of it only exists as a photograph now.
A teacher who keeps a studio in order to have something to teach from.
A sculptor. Jesmonite, foam, clay, 3D-printed plastic.
Science fiction, set last week.
Not a joke.
A documentary practice. Every work here has an address and a date.
The goal is not to retell the news but to reorganise its visual material according to a logic other than the ones to which we have become habituated. Watershed, 2025
Generated with a Chinese variant of the Huyuan algorithm, the images include intentional misreadings of the runic inscriptions, echoing centuries of translation, loss, and projection. The Good, the Lost, and the Beautiful, 2025
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
Coffee Lake continues Ørum's ongoing investigation of the analog and digital spaces we navigate daily, both physically and mentally. Coffee Lake, 2019
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
The project was documented and promoted through Instagram, allowing for continued engagement with the speculative narratives beyond the physical exhibition period. Mr. Spray, 2024
Et Andet Rum 2 is a site-specific 3D animation by Anders Bojen and Kristoffer Ørum. Et Andet Rum 2, 2009
Caught between constant computer-generated simulations of destruction and status quo institutions, it becomes difficult to imagine that the welfare state can be replaced by something different and better. Melting State, 2020
The project encompasses three galleries featuring a 15-metre legal graffiti wall, a giant record player, DIY furniture, lo-fi mixtapes, deepfakes and look-alikes, speculative snapshots, and video fragments from another world. Aarhus'er #1, 2025
Each monument is situated in a specific district or moment in Kraków’s layered history, blending archival poetics with infrastructural speculation. Monuments of a Fictional Past (Kraków Edition), 2025
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
Through this lens, the familiar streets and landmarks of Gdańsk are reimagined, highlighting the city’s layered histories, political influences, and the subjective experience of its inhabitants. A Subjective History of Gdańsk, 2011
The project’s online component was crafted with HTML, CSS, and Flash as a web-based work. contributors included Maja Zander; Kaspar Bonnén; Stig W Jørgensen; Palle R. Radiant Copenhagen, 2009
The collaboration involved fieldwork where Ørum spent time with the role-playing association in their regular activities, including battles in Hansted Forest and gaming sessions. Everyday Heroes, 2019
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
DIFFUSED STATES imagines an alternative trajectory for artificial intelligence—one in which computational systems develop through local, small-scale infrastructures rather than centralised corporate platforms. Diffused States (Lexington), 2025
During this struggle of imaginaries Spanien 19C continues to function as an art space, wedged in between building sites of what is to come and fragments of what used to be. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022
In this scenario, data does not flow through opaque corporate pipelines, but diffuses through neighbourhood workshops, shared servers, and informal archives. Diffused States (Vancouver), 2025
SignalCrayfish was presented as part of the two-person exhibition "Semio-Technical Traffics" with Emily Rosamond. Signal_Crayfish, 2020
In Copenhagen, at Live Art for Kids the project took shape in courtyards, playgrounds, and cultural centres. Mundane Heroics, 2019
The title refers to multiple forms of diffusion: the technical process of algorithmic image generation; the physical dispersion of paint; and the informal, community-based spread of knowledge and technology. Diffused States (Boston), 2025
Figures gather for shared meals, sweep longhouse floors, inscribe runes like graffiti, perform stylised rituals, or take part in dance battles and DJ sets using flat stones. The Good, the Lost, and the Beautiful, 2025
Signal_Krebs was an installation work presented in the group exhibition "Navigeringer – På kanten af en verden i forandring". Signal_Crayfish, 2020
This section functions as a resting state — the video slows to almost nothing, a pause between cycles. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026
Tank Hip-Hop established the methodology of using counterfactual storytelling to construct alternative Danish histories. Tank Hip-Hop, 2022
The hardware is produced through resource-intensive processes, and even the “local” is entangled in a global infrastructure. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025
The project was documented by Kevin Malcolm and received coverage in Danish art press as part of discussions about digital art and algorithmic perception. Putins Nose, 2018
Just as hip-hop DJs once transformed the turntable from a playback device into a creative instrument, this project reimagines Hvidovre’s history as speculative fiction. Hvidovre Makes Good Times Better, 2025
The artists sent unsolicited emails to residents of the Ballehage area warning of an epidemic of Involuntary Tessellation and offering cures with a link to tessellax.com, a fake medical website based on an altered AIDS treatment site. The Ballehage Woman, 2009
Guests were invited to renegotiate their role — not just as viewers, but as potential participants in a system of storytelling, symbols, and rituals that reframed both the neighbourhood and the museum as shared sites of imagination. Game Continent, 2010
A book, "Kolindsund fremtidsturistguide," was published by forlaget majlund in 2022 (ISBN 9788793882096) in connection with the work. Djurs Øhav, 2020
Especially simulations of destruction are so widespread and credible that one quickly forgets what the original physical phenomena looked like. Melting State, 2020
Using AI, familiar sites are transformed into speculative visions, such as Karolinelunden as a DIY amusement park or Aalborg Shipyard taken over by its workers. Aalborg Is The Future, 2024
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 headline read "The Inscrutable Face of Russia." This sparked reflections on how much difference there actually is between the paranoid gaze of computer surveillance technologies and that of human beings. Putin's Nose, 2019
Tank Hip-Hop was the inaugural project that launched the multi-year "Freedom, Equality and Hip-Hop" series, built on the fictional relationship between the labour movement and hip-hop culture. Tank Hip-Hop, 2022
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
Through AI-generated images and counterfactual storytelling, the exhibition envisions a self-built utopia in Hvidovre. Hvidovre Makes Good Times Better, 2025
Fed back into the internet, these phantom portraits acted as a small disturbance within systems of profiling maintained by intelligence agencies, corporations and other data collectors. Recognised Faces, 2014
The exhibition invited seven artists to examine the expressive and poetic qualities of computer programming, looking at how code affects us beyond the interfaces of software applications. Listening Without Ears, 2019