Kristoffer Ørum

Kristoffer Ørum

Not a joke.

Digital art.

Research. Somebody is going to have to examine it.

Science fiction, set last week.

Local. Copenhagen and Aarhus, mostly.

Mostly it is admin.

Visitors could connect their phones to new networks appearing in the gallery space and receive fragments of text and video. Invisible Objects, 2016

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

These unsolicited “press releases” became part of the ongoing re-imagining of Amager by local government, private enterprise, and other forces. City Planning, 2010

The project asks what meaning remains in news images once they are stripped of context, headlines, and captions, reduced to fragments of colour and form. Watershed, 2025

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

Auto Navigate My History is a software-based installation that replays the artist’s own browser history from the past year. Auto Navigate My History, 2014

The work combined various media to create a cohesive environment that challenged perceptions of digital and physical reality. Mundane Monsters, 2022

On the one hand, it can be seen as an attempt to resist the grip of major platforms, their data collection, and their opaque models. None of These Images Are of Me, 2025

It was accompanied by scholarly publication and received coverage in Danish art press. Signal_Crayfish, 2020

Retired factory workers repurpose their technical knowledge to build speakers and maintain audio infrastructure, passing skills across generations. Even the City Dreams of Being Another, 2025

The project aimed to examine new forms of dialogue in contemporary art on different terms than previously known. Everyday Heroes, 2019

The exhibition was the result of several years' work with the three monsters, bringing together elements from numerous performances, exhibitions and interventions both domestically and abroad. Mundane Monsters, 2023

The exhibition was noted for providing a rare opportunity to interact with cutting-edge technology in a gallery setting. Mundane Monsters, 2022

The works were presented as productive machines possessing a capacity to carry out operations both as singular units and assembled into larger wholes. Coffee Lake, 2019

The project arises from a media environment where trust in both institutions and images is unsettled. Watershed, 2025

It suggests that the media of the future may not converge into a single stable format, but instead coexist as a patchwork—some fostering clarity, others producing estrangement. Watershed, 2025

The sculpture is a giant oyster from a setting where the earth is covered by an endless ocean and people have moved into the oysters, which give them shelter, air, warmth and food. Affluence without abundance, 2025

This is a subjective and living archive - it grows and shifts as time passes and the world changes.

The project began with an unusual anecdote: "I look down into the shopping bag at some beetroots. Putins Nose, 2018

Why create images that place myself in problematic and humorous situations? None of These Images Are of Me, 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

For the exhibition opening, Vitar Horsens Rollespilslaug performed an InCrowd game at the art museum, bringing their practice directly into the gallery space. Everyday Heroes, 2019

The installation featured speculative scenarios about living arrangements including large oyster habitations. Ebeltoft After The Flood, 2021

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

It presents language as both infrastructure and interference, existing in plain sight yet obscured within the everyday signals that surround us. Wireless Walnut, 2018

The 2017 version included male artists and moved away from explicit imagery toward more abstract works. Sucker Trick, 2017

The work was part of "Partners," an experimental exhibition at Vejle Kunstmuseum that paired seven artists with seven local associations. Everyday Heroes, 2019

What you see here is just what felt important to document at the time.

Central to the work is a fictional universe populated by figures such as Torkild Simonsen, Aarhus' first hip-hop mayor (1982-1997), and Marc Johnston, who relocated Denmark's capital from Copenhagen to Aarhus in 2019. Aarhus'er #1, 2025

The exhibition took as its subject the sources of inspiration behind artistic practice, inviting 35 Danish artists to contribute an object, material, or work that revealed part of their process. Auto Navigate My History, 2014

The exhibition blurs the line between documentary and fiction, making room for the unrealised potential of the past to resurface not as nostalgia, but as unfinished possibility. Aarhus'er #1, 2025

A Body Has Many Members is a large-scale public commission by Anders Bojen & Kristoffer Ørum for the University College Capital (UCC) Campus Nordsjælland, produced with support from the Danish Agency for Culture. A Body Has Many Members, 2012

This video asks a question that sits at the heart of our digital lives: how do we appear to a machine? Speaker 1, 2026

The opening included a performance component set in an alternative past, presenting counterfactual work that narrated fictional relationships between political movements and cultural expression. Mr. Spray, 2024

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

The video can be described as a combination of Half-Life 2, Hitchcock's *Vertigo*, and Bridget Riley, rendered in a computer-game-like animation of a man watching a screen. Once We All Walk through Solid Objects, 2007

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

Created in 2019, the work was exhibited by Radar Contemporary as an online piece. Vladimir's Tongue, 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 title refers to multiple senses of “diffusion”: the technical process of image generation; the social circulation of tools and knowledge; and the physical dispersal of small-scale devices across different environments. Diffused States (Vancouver), 2025

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