Daniel Muzyczuk

Daniel Muzyczuk (1980) is a curator and art critic. He is head of the Modern Art Department at Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź.

Muzyczuk curated numerous projects, such as: Long Gone Susan Philipsz, Gone to Croatan (with Robert Rumas), MORE IS MORE (with Agnieszka Pindera and Joanna Zielińska), The Melancholy of Resistance: Works from the M HKA Collection (with Agnieszka Pindera), Views 2011, Sounding the Body Electric: Experiments in Art and Music in Eastern Europe 1957–1984 (with David Crowley), Notes from the Underground: Eastern European Alternative Art and Music Scene 1968–1994 (with David Crowley), Museum of Rhythm (with Natasha Ginwala), and Through the Soundproof Curtain: The Polish Radio Experimental Studio (with Michał Mendyk). He was co-curator of the Polish Pavilion of the 55th Venice Biennale (with Agnieszka Pindera) and was the winner (together with Agnieszka Pindera) of the Igor Zabel Competition in 2011. He is a member of Grupa Budapeszt. From 2008 to 2011, he was a curator at the Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu (CoCA) in Toruń. (2023)

Publications

• Sounding the Body Electric: Experiments in Art and Music in Eastern Europe 1957-1984 / Dźwięki elektrycznego ciała: Eksperymenty w sztuce i muzyce w Europie Wschodniej 1957-1984 (editor, with David Crowley), Łódź: Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi, 2012, 222 pp. (English)/(Polish)

• Notes From the Underground: Art and Alternative Music in Eastern Europe 1968-1994 / Notatki z podziemia (editor, with David Crowley), Łódź: Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi, 2016, 446 pp. Explores the interconnections of art and music in Eastern Europe under communist rule in the 1970s and 1980s. Muzyczuk's essay. [1] [2] (Polish)/(English)

• Ultra Sounds: The Sonic Art of Polish Radio Experimental Studio (co-editor), Karlsruhe: ZKM, Warsaw: Adam Mickiewicz Institute, and Łódź: Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi, 2019, 336 pp. [3] (English)

• Galeria Wschodnia. Dokumenty 1984–2017 / Documents 1984–2017 (editor, with Tomasz Załuski), trans. Katarzyna Gucio, Maciej Świerkocki, and Elżbieta Wysakowska-Walters, Łódź: Galeria Wschodnia, Fundacja In Search Of..., and Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi, 2019, 916 pp. Bibliography. Chronology. Photographs. Figures. Tables. Maps. Publisher. Excerpt, [4]. Reviews: Zboralska (ArtMargins), Bryzgel (Slavic R), Banasiak (Szum). [5] (Polish)/(English)

• Zygmunt Rytka. Kamienie, mrówki i telewizja. Prace fotograficzne z 1971-2010 (editor, with Karol Hordziej), Fundacja Sztuk Wizualnych and Leipzig: Spector Books, 2024, 280 pp. With texts by Zygmunt Rytka, Anna Maria Leśniewska, Daniel Muzyczuk, David Crowley and Karol Hordziej. Publisher. Event. (Polish)
  • Zygmunt Rytka: Stones, Ants, and Television: Photographic Works 1971–2010, Leipzig: Spector Books, 2024, 278 pp. Publisher. Publisher. (English)

• Twilight of the Magicians, Leipzig: Spector Books, forthcoming, 200 pp. (English)