Paula Stoica is a visiting doctoral candidate from the University of Basel (Switzerland). Her dissertation project, "Hanne Darboven: Artistic Production as Ascetic Practice," deals with Darboven’s artistic practice as a way of constituting the self within the framework of late capitalist society. The strictly standardized writing act and the integration of promotional gifts from her family’s coffee roasting company outline the field of investigation between a specific form of asceticism, Darboven’s bourgeois milieu, post-colonialism, and gender within the historical Conceptual Art.

Paula Stoica holds a B.A. in Art History and Media Studies from the University of Tübingen (Germany), and an M.A. in Art History and Image Theory from the University of Basel (Switzerland). She was a research associate at the Documenta Institute in Kassel (October 2021 – August 2022), focusing on Conceptual Art. From November 2022 to April 2024 she served as a research associate in the research project "'There are no women making conceptual art:' Subjectivation and Gender Politics in Conceptual Art around 1970" at the University of Kassel, Germany (Prof. Felix Vogel). Stoica has been an assistant in the Art History Department at the University of Basel (Prof. Markus Klammer) since August 2022. Her dissertation project, "Hanne Darboven: Artistic Production as Ascetic Practice," deals with Darboven’s artistic practice as a way of constituting the self within the framework of late capitalist society.