Publications
Peer-reviewed articles
From Border Fetishism to Tactical Socialism
Nicolescu, Gabriela. 2018. ‘From Border Fetishism to Tactical Socialism’ in East Central Europe , Special Issue: “State Socialist Experts in Transnational Perspective.” Vol 45(2): 1-28, DOI 10.1163/18763308-04502005
On ruination: piercing the skin of communism in 1990s Romania
Nicolescu, Gabriela. 2017. ‘On ruination: piercing the skin of communism in 1990s Romania.’ In World Art, ISSN 2150-0894, DOI 10.1080/21500894.2017.1330762
Forging Folklore, Disrupting Archives: curatorial explorations between tradition and innovation
Nicolescu Gabriela. 2017. (with Magdalena Buchczyk, Alexandra Urdea) ‘Forging Folklore, Disrupting Archives: Curatorial explorations between tradition and innovation’ In Martor, The Anthropologcal Journal of the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant.
The museum’s lexis: Driving objects into ideas
Nicolescu, Gabriela. 2016. ‘The museum’s lexis: Driving objects into ideas.’ In Journal of Material Culture, 21(4), pp. 465-489. ISSN 1359-1835
Decorativa: The Monopoly of Visual Production in Socialist Romania. The Centralized Organization of Museum Displays in the 1960s and 1970s
Nicolescu, Gabriela. 2016. ‘Decorativa: The Monopoly of Visual Production in Socialist Romania. The Centralized Organization of Museum Displays in the 1960s and 1970s.’ In The Journal of Design History, 29(1), pp. 71-87. ISSN 0952-4649
Co-edited Volumes and Book Chapters (selected)
Raising the Cross. Exorcising Romania’s Communist Past in Museums, Memorials and Monuments
Nicolescu [Cristea], Gabriela (with Simina Radu-Bucurenci). 2008. ‘Raising the Cross. Exorcising Romania’s Communist Past in Museums, Memorials and Monuments.’ In Oksana Sarkisova and Peter Apor, eds., Past for the eyes: East European Representations of Communism in Cinema and Museums after 1989, pp: 275-306. Budapest: Central European University Press. ISBN (10) 963-977-603-3.
Nicolescu [Cristea], Gabriela, Angelescu, Șerban, Manoliu, Vasile, Mihalache, Carmen, and Popovăț, Petre. 2008. Mărturii orale: Anii ’90 şi bucureştenii. Bucharest: Paideia. ISBN 978-973-596-410-8.
Nicolescu [Cristea], Gabriela and Constantinescu, Romanița. eds. 2006. Paupera Fabula Rasa [An anthology of stories about objects]. Bucharest: University of Bucharest Press.
Nicolescu [Cristea], Gabriela. 2007. ‘On the Top of the Four Rivers, in the Four Winds.’ In Dragoș Neamu eds., U.R.M.E. Urban Remembrance and Memory of Europe: Antologie, pp: 20-24. Bucharest: Muzeul Literaturii Române. ISBN 973-894-781-2, 978-973-894-781-8.
Present Memory of Communism as seen through Museums
Nicolescu [Cristea], Gabriela. 2006. ‘Present Memory of Communism as seen through Museums,’ In Cosmin Budeancă, Florin Olteanu, and Ioan Pop, eds., Rezistenţa anticomunistă. Cercetare ştiinţifică şi valorificare muzeală, pp. 255-265. Cluj: Argonaut. ISBN (10) 973-109-039-8 (13) 978-973-109-039-9.
Other Publications (selected)
‘Muzee Noi’ [New Museums]
Nicolescu, Gabriela. 2015. ‘Muzee Noi’ [New Museums – in Romanian] In Arta, Vol. 14-15, pp. 200-204. ISBN-13, 2000000278841.
Displaying Historical Materialism in Socialist Romania: The Ventures of Commanding Temporalities
Nicolescu, Gabriela. 2014. ‘Displaying Historical Materialism in Socialist Romania: The Ventures of Commanding Temporalities.’ In Aimee Joyce, Katy Aston and William Tantam, eds., TENSES. New Graduate Writing, pp: 35-55. London: Goldsmiths, University of London. ISBN 978-1-906897-30-7.
On Maps Abused Virgins and Nations. Anti-Communist Memorial Museums in Hungary and Romania
Nicolescu, Gabriela. 2008. ‘On Maps Abused Virgins and Nations. Anti-Communist Memorial Museums in Hungary and Romania.’ Linkoping Electronic University Press. Available at: http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/030/004/index.html
Exhibition Catalogues
Donner, Henrike; Nicolescu, Gabriela and Santos, Dominique. 2016. Austerity Bites: Food Stories from Lewisham.
Thesis
Art, Politics and the Museum: Tales of continuity and rupture in modern Romania
Nicolescu, Gabriela. 2015. ‘Art, Politics and the Museum: Tales of continuity and rupture in modern Romania.’ Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London