Daniel Muzyczuk
Daniel Muzyczuk (1980) is a curator and art critic. He is Head of the Modern Art Department at Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź. From 2008 to 2011, he was a curator at the Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu (CoCA) in Toruń.
Muzyczuk curated numerous projects, such as: Gone to Croatan (with Robert Rumas), MORE IS MORE (with Agnieszka Pindera and Joanna Zielińska), Melancholy of resistance (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) and Museum of Rhythm (with Natasha Ginwala). He also co-curated the Polish Pavillion for the 55th Venice Biennale (with Agnieszka Pindera). He was the winner (together with Agnieszka Pindera) of the Igor Zabel Competition in 2011. He has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk.
- Publications
- editor, with David Crowley, 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, Łódź: Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi, 2012, 222 pp. (English)/(Polish)
- editor, with David Crowley, Notes From the Underground: Art and Alternative Music in Eastern Europe 1968-1994 / Notatki z podziemia, 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)
- co-editor, Ultra Sounds: The Sonic Art of Polish Radio Experimental Studio, Karlsruhe: ZKM, Warsaw: Adam Mickiewicz Institute, and Łódź: Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi, 2019, 336 pp. [3] (English)
