Daniel Muzyczuk

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