Gabriela Nicolescu
Lecturer
Anthropology
Goldsmiths University of London
United Kingdom
Biography
Associate Lecturer Over the years, Dr Gabriela Nicolescu has curated or participated in the curation of multiple exhibitions in Austria, Romania and the UK: Domestic Red (2004, Hag Gallery, Bucharest), Realismus versus Realitaat (2006, Museum of Young Art, Vienna), Connections: Objects in Relation and Context (2012, The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest), Revisiting Romania (2014-2016, Horniman Museum, London), Forging Folklore, Disrupting Archives (2014, Constance Howard Gallery, London).
Research Interest
Dr Gabriela Nicolescu's primary research interests are with the objectification of people in moments of abrupt spatial and political change and the shifting regimes of value; visual anthropology, material culture and domestic interiors; present museums and exhibitions engaging with debates and topics to be put on display; political, economic and medical anthropology. Her doctoral thesis entitled Art, Politics and the Museum: Tales of Continuity and Rupture in Modern Romania (2015) discusses markers of continuity and change at the beginning and end of communism.
Publications
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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
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Austerity Bites: Food Stories from Lewisham Donner, Henrike; Nicolescu, Gabriela and Santos, Dominique. 2016. Austerity Bites: Food Stories from Lewisham.
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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. The Journal of Design History, 29(1), pp. 71-87. ISSN 0952-4649
