Emese Mucsi is a Hungarian-born curator and art critic. Emese curates exhibitions where photography is interpreted in the context of contemporary art and works with artists who have an expanded idea of photography and produce photo-based works. Her projects bring together artists and photographers with photojournalists, writers and other thinkers to experiment with new approaches to photography.
She graduated from the Faculty of Contemporary Art Theory and Curatorial Studies at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2013, and from the Faculty of Hungarian Literature and Linguistics at the University of Szeged in 2017.

Emese has been a member of the curators’ collective BÜRO imaginaire since 2012. Since 2013, she has been running projects as a freelance curator, and since 2018, she has served as a curator at the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center in Budapest. From March 2014 to January 2018, she was the Editor-in-Chief of Artmagazin Online. She has been a member of Global Photographies Network since 2020. She founded the DOXA exhibition space and editorial den in 2022 and is a guest lecturer at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (2023) and the University of Szeged (2024).