Grzegorz Kwiatkowski has become a visiting writer at the American Alan Cheuse International Writers Center and George Mason University.
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28 July 2025
New York Times
For over a decade, the Polish band Trupa Trupa has been unleashing idiosyncratic blasts of psychedelic rock with a sharp post-punk edge, using music as a form of catharsis as well as activism. The group — Grzegorz Kwiatkowski and Wojtek Juchniewicz on vocals and guitar, plus Tomek Pawluczuk on drums — is now gearing up for the release of their new EP, “Mourners,” along with a performance at New York’s Heaven can wait on March 1.
28 July 2025
Chicago Reader
Poland’s Trupa Trupa confront humankind’s atrocities to fight for something better. Trupa Trupa make rickety, bleak music for surviving authoritarianism. Since self-releasing their full-length debut, 2011’s LP, the trio from the coast of northern Poland have wandered through the foggiest and most aching parts of psych and garage rock, postpunk, and posthardcore to create a sound whose greatest consistency is its ability to express the darkest aspects of the human experience—and the beauty we must nurture despite it all.
24 July 2025
Chicago Tribune
In 2018, Trupa Trupa was 15 minutes from taking the stage at the venerable South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, when singer and guitarist Grzegorz Kwiatkowski’s amp burned out.
18 July 2025
Rolling Stone
The song Mourners by Trupa Trupa has been included on Rolling Stone’s list of the best songs of 2025!
17 July 2025
Sound Opinions
The album Mourners by Trupa Trupa made it to the podium in music critic Greg Kot’s and the Sound Opinions show’s ranking of the best albums of the year.
15 July 2025
Review of Ohne Orchester – Literatur und Kritik
Als der polnische Dichter Grzegorz Kwiatkowski noch ein Kind ist, macht sein Großvater mit ihm einen Ausflug. Es ist kein Ausflug, an dessen Ende beide freudig an einem Eis schlecken, einen Drachen steigen lassen oder mit erwärmten Herzen ein Zirkuszelt wieder verlassen. Es ist ein Ausflug in die Vergangenheit, an dessen Ende für Grzegorz Kwiatkowski sich die Frage, warum Menschen einander hassen und umbringen, wie ein Ungeheuer über das Himmelszelt spannt.
13 November 2024
Yale University / The Fortunoff Video Archive
Welcome, Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, Artist-in-residence.
The Fortunoff Video Archive is proud to announce that Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, a distinguished Polish poet, musician, academic, and human rights activist, will be an Artist-in-Residence in 2025.
13 November 2024
Yale Artist-in-Residence
In 2025, Grzegorz Kwiatkowski will serve as an artist-in-residence at the Fortunoff Video Archive at Yale University, conducting research for an upcoming art project based on testimonies.
20 September 2024
Ohne Orchester – Signaturen Magazine
Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, der 1984 geborene polnische Lyriker und Musiker der psychedelischen Post-Punk-Band „Trupa Trupa“, veröffentlicht im August 2024 in der Kölner parasitenpresse seinen zweiten Gedichtband „ohne Orchester“. Nur vierzehn Monate liegen zwischen dieser und seiner ersten Veröffentlichung im Kölner Verlag, seinem deutschen Debüt „brennend“ (Juni 2023).