ARTISTS

Mariusz Szypura

Mariusz Szypura (b. 1972) is a composer, music producer, and audiovisual artist working at the intersection of music, design, and contemporary art. After years of activity on the Polish alternative scene (Happy Pills, Blimp, Silver Rocket), he focused on interdisciplinary artistic projects in which sound becomes a sculptural material and a tool for shaping experience.

In recent years, he has concentrated on large-scale audiovisual installations. In 2024, at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, he presented the project in:human – an immersive environment exploring relationships between humans and technology through multichannel sound and image. During the Unsound Festival at Lincoln Center in New York, he presented êkhos, combining electroacoustic composition with stereoscopic projections.

His most extensive artistic undertaking is Chopin Residue – an international audiovisual project deconstructing the work of Frédéric Chopin through experimental compositional techniques combined with large-scale imagery, video installation, and spatial sound. In its musical layer, co-created with artists such as Adrian Utley, Lee Ranaldo, John Stanier, and Fennesz, it has been presented in venues including New York and Osaka.

As a composer of music for exhibitions, Szypura creates autonomous sonic environments that engage in dialogue with both the artwork and the architecture. His compositions do not illustrate – they shape the rhythm of perception, the intensity of experience, and the viewer’s relationship with space.