Kristoffer Ørum
Comedy.
An artist who makes things up about real places.
An archive with gaps in it, kept by the person who made the gaps.
Works with machines that are confidently wrong.
A documentary practice. Every work here has an address and a date.
Some of it only exists as a photograph now.
One was an animated video about life inside an oyster. Djurs Øhav, 2020
Every Part a Body is a sixty-second digital video, shown in the 60Seconds programme of The Wrong Biennale at CBS Digital Space in March 2026. Every Part a Body, 2026
The art world overflows with images of beautiful, smart, and confident artists. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025
The work was structured as a natural history museum display. 3D-printed models represented crayfish body parts modified with technological elements. Signal_Crayfish, 2020
The oysters provide shelter, regulate air quality, supply electricity and heating, and monitor their human inhabitants' health and behaviour. Affluence without abundance, 2021
The association continued to use the museum as a venue throughout the exhibition period, demonstrating their activities alongside the artworks. Everyday Heroes, 2019
The project was supported by research conducted at Aarhus University as part of an ongoing investigation into the aesthetic dimensions of computational processes and automated interpretation systems. Listening Without Ears, 2019
Exhibition aboard the ship Svartlöga at Ebeltoft Fregathavnen examining climate change scenarios where Djursland becomes an archipelago. Ebeltoft After The Flood, 2021
This invisibility operates on several levels. Watershed, 2025
The works form part of Ørum’s ongoing series Även staden drömmer om att vara en annan ("Even the city dreams of being another"), offering glimpses of civic and technological alternatives rooted in joy, memory, and shared invention. Even the City Dreams of Being Another, 2025
Signal_Krebs was an installation work presented in the group exhibition "Navigeringer – På kanten af en verden i forandring". Signal_Crayfish, 2020
Roskilde Parahistory was part of the group exhibition Kurs at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde in 2009. Roskilde Parahistory, 2009
The cardboard boxes were imprinted with logos of Tessellax, a fictitious medical company claiming to cure Involuntary Tessellation, a condition causing uncontrolled growth of square body parts. The Ballehage Woman, 2009
The project began with an unusual anecdote: "I look down into the shopping bag at some beetroots. Putins Nose, 2018
Day to Day Data looks at how digital information is embedded in everyday life. Day to Day Data, 2008
By constructing new faces from parts of the most widely circulated images online, Recognised Faces created a snapshot of the constant data collection and algorithmic recognition happening daily on the internet. Recognised Faces, 2014
A face judged as both 'neutral' and 'fake' by two different systems at the same time is more than a technical glitch; it's a new kind of image that hints at a possible new understanding of identity. Speaker 1, 2026
The work combined various media to create a cohesive environment that challenged perceptions of digital and physical reality. Mundane Monsters, 2022
Would You Like to Know More is an internet work in the Signal_Crayfish series, published online by Radar Contemporary. Would You Like to Know More, 2017
Game Continent transformed The Aarhus Art Building and its surrounding neighbourhood into a living game world. Game Continent, 2010
At the Edge II is supported by Kulturrådet, Malmö stad, Region Skåne, and Statens Kunstfond. Even the City Dreams of Being Another, 2025
Rather than recognising faces, it was trained exclusively to see noses or beetroot-like patterns. Putin's Nose, 2019
A third video, A Song for Ming, was a karaoke track by Kristoffer Ærørum with music and performance by Josefine Struckmann. Djurs Øhav, 2020
The project formed part of a research collaboration between the participating museums and the University of Copenhagen. Signal_Crayfish, 2020
I am also tired of so-called critical art being presented through the same visual culture as fashion: the artist in their beautiful home, in front of their impressive bookshelf, or in their picturesque studio. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025
The exhibition was the first public survey of bookworks focused on alternative interspecies possibilities and featured artists working at the intersection of speculative fiction and bio-art. Signal_Crayfish, 2021
Strange audio players and distorted timelines hint at other ways things could have turned out, with hip-hop positioned not as a fixed genre or imported form, but as a set of evolving principles. 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
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
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
The augmented reality component allowed viewers to see additional digital layers through their smartphone cameras, revealing hidden "monsters" that existed only in the augmented space. Mundane Monsters, 2022
What you see here is just what felt important to document at the time.
The project invited citizens to have their pets gently scanned to contribute to a composite digital monster that would inhabit the area around Borchs Gård in Kolding city centre. The Kolding Creature, 2021
In the post-totalitarian context of Latvia, where memory is often manipulated for political purposes, the work offers a reminder that the past is not fixed and demonstrates the fluidity of historical narratives. Monuments of A Fictitious Past, 2024
Search for Carrot ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, 2006, is a PAL DVD video with a duration of 22 minutes, created in collaboration with Anders Bojen. Search for Carrot ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, 2006
During the exhibition, the carefully worded original English text on the exhibition space’s website was gradually replaced by an unstable bilingual text, one sentence at a time. Blind Listening, 2017
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 exploited technological imperfections to imagine an improved future by manipulating AI's original commercial intent. Frihed, Lighed Og Hip-Hop, 2023
Video elements included a deep fake sequence featuring politician Pernille Vermund discussing invasive species. Signal_Crayfish, 2020
The work was exhibited at Vejle Kunstmuseum from March to August 2020, then travelled to Holstebro Kunstmuseum from September 2020 to January 2021. Signal_Crayfish, 2020