Kristoffer Ørum
A sculptor. Jesmonite, foam, clay, 3D-printed plastic.
Local. Copenhagen and Aarhus, mostly.
Not local. Boston, Vancouver, Riga, Kraków, Oberhausen, San Francisco.
Solitary. One person decides what is documented and what is forgotten.
A programmer who picks the wrong algorithm on purpose.
A lot of it is waiting for a render to finish.
The installation was produced specifically for Interdimensionale II at Gammelgaard (September 2020) using three 4K video players (Raspberry Pi 4), three IIYAMA B2888UHSU screens, and video rendering services from foxrenderfarm.com. Melting State, 2020
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
The work referenced Gustave Courbet's 1866 painting "L'Origine du monde", which was kept hidden behind a curtain for over a century. Sucker Trick, 2017
The Video was Presented as part of Illumenarts, the work took the form of a thriller-like visual sequence in which digital structures spread and evolve. Once We All Walk through Solid Objects, 2007
The industrial spaces provided a striking backdrop for the reimagined objects and performances. Mundane Heroics, 2019
The 3D printed objects served as camouflaged recording devices, appearing as innocuous everyday items while performing the technical operation of speech-to-text conversion. Listening Without Ears, 2019
Each email contained a unique, computer-generated text announcing fictional construction projects — ranging from the plausible to the fantastic. City Planning, 2010
Instead of being representations in a conventional sense, they functioned as productions of effects, transforming the exhibition space into an operational field based on concepts such as energy, velocity, and transformation. Coffee Lake, 2019
The objects were fabricated by hand, with airbrushed surfaces and traces of manual production visible on the casts. Invisible Objects, 2016
In the work, a series of news broadcasts are presented by a talking carrot. Search for Carrot ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, 2006
They have been 3d scanned, using the kind of technology one might find in one's smartphone, and subsequently 3d printed in monochrome versions using a variety of materials ranging from terracotta to granite. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022
As a user zooms in on a fragment, its pixel structure reveals itself, breaking the illusion of seamlessness. Watershed, 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
Artists were invited through an open call to create works in dialogue with the water-damaged photographs. Depth Estimation, 2019
Children and young people modified everyday objects such as chairs, umbrellas, tools, or clothing into hybrid sculptural forms. Mundane Heroics, 2019
At the neighbouring Museum Østjylland, speculative objects were integrated into the historical displays, including a model of an "oyster home" and interventions within exhibits about Grenå's local oyster history. Djurs Øhav, 2020
The project formed part of a research collaboration between the participating museums and the University of Copenhagen. Signal_Crayfish, 2020
These scenes combined role play, sculpture, and performance into temporary worlds accessible to anyone passing by. Mundane Heroics, 2019
These hollow approximations of the original fragments are half-remembered memories made tangible. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022
The work forms part of De Tabte Runesten, a group exhibition returning nine lost cultural artefacts to Rundetaarn through the visions of contemporary artists. The Good, the Lost, and the Beautiful, 2025
Through AI-generated images and counterfactual storytelling, the exhibition envisions a self-built utopia in Hvidovre. Hvidovre Makes Good Times Better, 2025
The work asks how we can imagine a future after the welfare state, now that it seems to be definitively being dismantled. Melting State, 2020
The work was structured as a natural history museum display. 3D-printed models represented crayfish body parts modified with technological elements. Signal_Crayfish, 2020
As one deciphers mud from the ground that has been smeared onto the wall in the shape of geometric letterforms, dust from the building site made up of particles that were once buildings enters one's lungs. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022
Previous iterations of Freedom, Equality and Hip-hop have appeared at Kongegaarden (Korsør), Sydhavn Station (Copenhagen), Friisland (Copenhagen Nordhavn), Survival Kit Biennial (Riga, Latvia), and F.eks. (Aalborg). Hvidovre Makes Good Times Better, 2025
The installation featured speculative scenarios about living arrangements including large oyster habitations. Ebeltoft After The Flood, 2021
Participants staged live tableaux in pedestrian zones and market areas, allowing encounters with everyday passersby. Mundane Heroics, 2019
In return, humans care for the oysters through cleaning, feeding, and gentle maintenance. Affluence without abundance, 2021
"Monuments of a Fictional Past" is a project that imagines a past where Soviet edifices dotting the Latvian landscape have been replaced with AI-generated counterparts. Monuments of A Fictitious Past, 2024
Auto Navigate My History uses the digital archive of daily browsing as both source and medium. Auto Navigate My History, 2014
The video Computer-generated video and sound, 20 min, made with WAN 2.1 on a local RTX 4090, projected on the end wall of a darkened gallery. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026
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 performative lecture addresses how we might recover some semblance of agency and hope while living under the gaze of ever more watchful algorithmic systems of control. It Sings for Us of What We Might Become, 2019
The work renders the fragile and transient qualities of soap in digital animation, turning an everyday material into a dynamic, projected environment. Soap Particles, 2005
Philosopher Donna Haraway has called this illusion a “god trick”: a view from nowhere that claims to see everything. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025
The project operated on several levels with "lines of flight" into the city, online, and in local media. According to the Nose, 2021
The project builds on Ørum's ongoing work "Freedom, Liberty, and Hip-Hop," which envisions alternative Danish histories. Monuments of A Fictitious Past, 2024
At Drottninggatan 6, the building itself becomes a collaborative canvas, shaped by decades of creative reuse. Even the City Dreams of Being Another, 2025
The starting point was the woodlouse as a kind of care worker. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026
Yet, as critics such as Allan Sekula have argued, photography has never been a transparent medium; it has always been a construction. Watershed, 2025