Kristoffer Ørum

Kristoffer Ørum

A teacher who keeps a studio in order to have something to teach from.

A documentary practice. Every work here has an address and a date.

Science fiction, set last week.

An archive with gaps in it, kept by the person who made the gaps.

Comedy.

A lot of it is waiting for a render to finish.

The liquid stains my hands when I reach into the vegetable drawer. Qua Aqua (Beetroot Texts), 2017

A computer transcribes the audio files it has captured and translates them into Danish, before uploading the text to Meter’s homepage. Blind Listening, 2017

The book was commissioned during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic as part of a group of works that examined interspecies entanglement and human vulnerability. Signal_Crayfish, 2021

Deconstructed 2D news images drift across a constructed 3D landscape, never pretending to be windows onto reality. Watershed, 2025

Algorithms originally trained for advertising are repurposed to remix the town’s architecture and stories into new visions of community and possibility. Hvidovre Makes Good Times Better, 2025

It positions deliberate misunderstanding as a productive alternative to seamless digital communication and reliable interpretation systems. Feathered Misconceptions, 2018

The system operated continuously throughout the exhibition, looping through the history without direct interaction. Auto Navigate My History, 2014

The machinic as a format for both production and display runs as a common thread through his practice. Coffee Lake, 2019

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

Signal_Krebs was an installation work presented in the group exhibition "Navigeringer – På kanten af en verden i forandring". Signal_Crayfish, 2020

The project used artificial intelligence not as a thinking entity, but as a tool filled with errors and biases that could inspire new ways of thinking. Frihed, Lighed Og Hip-Hop, 2023

Signal_Krebs was an installation work presented in the group exhibition "Navigeringer – På kanten af en verden i forandring". Signal_Crayfish, 2020

Rather than corporate development, this speculative trajectory imagines ternary computing as evolving through grassroots cultures of experimentation and resistance. Diffused States (Boston), 2025

At the hospital, Untitled — five photographs and an orange chalk drawing in aluminium frames along the corridor, from the perspective of somebody waiting. Leddyrsomsorg / Arthropod Care, 2026

Components included routers, antennas, and cables arranged alongside the biological forms. Signal_Crayfish, 2020

"Where the wall weep sugar" was presented as part of the group exhibition "TID," organized by Kunstnersammenslutningen Jylland at KH7artspace in Aarhus. Where the walls weep sugar, 2025

The installation was designed as an interactive multimedia experience that required visitors to engage with cutting-edge technology within a gallery setting. Mundane Monsters, 2022

Instead of showing only what is lost when a human is translated into data, these moments offer a new perspective. Speaker 1, 2026

The work contrasts the artificially generated with the seemingly authentic. Monuments of A Fictitious Past, 2024

The project consists of a book, a video, and a sculpture. Once We All Walk through Solid Objects, 2007

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 scanning process was designed to be gentle and non-intrusive for the animals whilst collecting the digital data needed to construct the hybrid creature. The Kolding Creature, 2021

The work was created for the group exhibition "Opløsning af Det Private Arkiv" aboard the ship Svartlöga in Copenhagen. Depth Estimation, 2019

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

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

A ghostly city that is no less real than the cities summoned forth in digital renderings by architects and planners to convince us of the future they are proposing. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022

The exhibition was part of SixtyEight Art Institute's two-year programme "Modes and Notes on the Local". Signal_Crayfish, 2020

Putin's Nose was a multi-year project that sought to turn surveillance systems' simplified identity categories and tools against themselves. Putin's Nose, 2019

One text reads: “In the bottom drawer of my fridge are a few beetroots that have been left there for so long that they have begun to leak red liquid. Qua Aqua (Beetroot Texts), 2017

Some of the objects broadcasted content directly through custom-built wireless networks. Invisible Objects, 2016

Rather than simply discussing these themes, the performance stages a series of unstable software experiments and semi-fictional narratives, creating a situation that is deliberately out of the performer's control. It Sings for Us of What We Might Become, 2019

Recognised Faces is an internet application by Kristoffer Ørum that ran for a year. Recognised Faces, 2014

Roskilde Parahistory was part of the group exhibition Kurs at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde in 2009. Roskilde Parahistory, 2009

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 exhibition featured wall art contributions by artist Anders Reventlov alongside AI-generated narratives. Mr. Spray, 2024

The work departed from the exhibition space but moved as performative action into urban space, with an online component extending the offline event. According to the Nose, 2021

The same work was shown at Keramoda, Lønstrup, in 2021. Affluence without abundance, 2025

The system does not distinguish between what a photojournalist might frame as a central subject and what might appear incidental. Watershed, 2025

Aarhus'er #1 doesn't offer a single reading of what was or what could be. Aarhus'er #1, 2025

The 3d printed copies of fragments from the construction site have become a sort of digital “ghosts”. Brownfield Wonderland, 2022

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