Paula Stoica studied Art History and Media Studies at the University of Tübingen (BA). She completed her MA in Art History and Image Theory in 2020 with a thesis on the work of the Berlin based artist Agnes Meyer-Brandis. From October 2021 until August 2022, she was a research assistant focusing on Conceptual Art at the documenta Institute in Kassel. Since August 2022, research assistant at the Schaulager-Professorship for Art Theory and since November 2022 research assistant in the project "There are no women making conceptual art": Subjectivation and gender politics in Conceptual Art around 1970 at the Department of Art and Knowledge at the University of Kassel, funded by the Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts.

Hanne Darboven: Aristic Production as a Form of Ascetic Practice

The dissertation project takes a body of three interrelated works from 1975–1985 by the German Conceptual artist Hanne Darboven (1941-2009) as its starting point. Stundenplan (1975–80), Weltansichten 00-99 (1975-80), and Ansichten '85', Harburg/New York (1984-85), by the research so far unconsidered, offer the possibility of interpreting 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 use of promotional gifts from the Darboven owned coffee roasting company open up a field of investigation located between a specific form of asceticism, the bourgeois milieu, postcolonialism, and gender within the historical Conceptual Art.