Kristoffer Ørum
Science fiction, set last week.
Works with animals that have not agreed to it.
Research. Somebody is going to have to examine it.
Some of it only exists as a photograph now.
A documentary practice. Every work here has an address and a date.
Works with machines that are confidently wrong.
It was accompanied by scholarly publication and received coverage in Danish art press. Signal_Crayfish, 2020
Shown alongside Honey Biba Beckerlee, Anna Bak, Elina Brotherus and Wang & Söderström, among others. Affluence without abundance, 2025
The two spaces integrate into each other, creating a continuous fluid motion where the boundary of the window is removed. Et Andet Rum 2, 2009
"Sucker Trick" is a collaboration between visual artist Kristoffer Ørum, magician Claus Mulbjerg, and architect Tomas Skovgaard. Sucker Trick, 2017
Signal Crayfish was presented as part of "Monstrous Machines," an exhibition on why new technologies provoke fear and how this impacts our perception of technology. Signal_Crayfish, 2021
The project exploited technological imperfections to imagine an improved future by manipulating AI's original commercial intent. Frihed, Lighed Og Hip-Hop, 2023
The work involved 3D-printing signal crayfish models equipped with electromagnetic sensing components. Signal_Crayfish, 2021
At the same time, I know how effective these images are. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025
Artists were invited through an open call to create works in dialogue with the water-damaged photographs. Depth Estimation, 2019
The broadcasts cover subjects including singing carrots, earthquakes, the colonization of outer space, and a theory of everything. Search for Carrot ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, 2006
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 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
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
Topographies of the Insignificant is a web-based project from 2010 presenting a series of micro-topological maps of ultra-local spaces in five European cities: Berlin, Bratislava, Luxembourg, Rome and Vienna. Topographies of the Insignificant, 2010
By juxtaposing the logic of role-play with the conventions of the museum, *Game Continent* created a moment of disorientation. Game Continent, 2010
The oysters provide shelter, regulate air quality, supply electricity and heating, and monitor their human inhabitants' health and behaviour. Affluence without abundance, 2021
According to the Nose was presented over two days (10:00-17:00 CET) as part of performance protocols' second Nordic Sessions, alongside works by Mette Kit Jensen and Tomas Skovgaard. According to the Nose, 2021
*AutoBiography* is a video installation by Anders Bojen and Kristoffer Ørum in which the artists rewrite their biographies through a mathematical system that continuously generates unstable interpretations of their identities. AutoBiography, 2011
What emerges is a narrative of the self that is both enacted and undermined by an indifferent system — an algorithmic account of personality, filtered through the lenses of psychology, technology and cultural expectation. AutoBiography, 2011
The work was part of "Partners," an experimental exhibition at Vejle Kunstmuseum that paired seven artists with seven local associations. Everyday Heroes, 2019
The wireless transmissions and video projections created an atmosphere where technology and nature intersected in unexpected ways. Mundane Monsters, 2022
Bojen and Ørum’s work often moves between science fiction and popular science, with references to comic books, television formats and advertising language. The End of the Universe as We Know It?, 2007
Part of Ørum’s ongoing project "Freedom, Equality, and Hip-Hop", the work engages AI technologies (Flux.1, Stable Diffusion 3.5) to construct histories that never were. Aalborg Is The Future, 2024
Bænkebider betragtere (Woodlouse Observers), the title of the ones placed around the hospital. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026
Working with AI models trained on biased data, the project asks how such systems can still be repurposed to imagine collective and collaborative futures. 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 first part of the project was held at Galleri Image in Aarhus in 2017. Putin's Nose, 2019
The Wave made by Anders Bojen & Kristoffer Ørum is a computer-animated video installation depicting a stormy sea with the tower of Copenhagen City Hall in the background. The Wave, 2009
The art world overflows with images of beautiful, smart, and confident artists. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025
The work mixed factual information about signal crayfish with invented characteristics, including claims that the species can grow to 1.8 metres and possess wireless communication abilities. Signal_Crayfish, 2020
In Copenhagen, at Live Art for Kids the project took shape in courtyards, playgrounds, and cultural centres. Mundane Heroics, 2019
Aarhus'er #1 is the most expansive chapter in Kristoffer Ørum's ongoing counterfactual project "Frihed, lighed og hip-hop" (Freedom, Equality and Hip-Hop), created in collaboration with rapper Emilio Hestepis. Aarhus'er #1, 2025
The pieces incorporated Wi-Fi network names printed on crayfish bodies, casting the invasive species as a digital hybrid creature living within communication networks. Signal_Crayfish, 2020
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
Installation took place aboard Svartlöga ship functioning as gallery space. Ebeltoft After The Flood, 2021
A book, "Kolindsund fremtidsturistguide," was published by forlaget majlund in 2022 (ISBN 9788793882096) in connection with the work. Djurs Øhav, 2020
Visitors could connect their phones to new networks appearing in the gallery space and receive fragments of text and video. Invisible Objects, 2016
The exhibition consisted of a series of household objects and sculptural forms recreated in unusual materials and fitted with custom electronics. Invisible Objects, 2016
To launch the project, staged reality events and a guided bus tour extended its speculative narrative into the physical city. Radiant Copenhagen, 2009
Frihed, Lighed og Hip-Hop used advanced imaging technology (artificial intelligence) to tell the story of a fictional relationship between the labour movement and hip-hop culture. Frihed, Lighed Og Hip-Hop, 2023