Cristina Stoenescu has graduated the master programme of the Centre for Excellency in Image Studies in Bucharest and the Arts & Heritage track for graduate studies at the University of Maastricht. She has specialised in the history of contemporary art, with a focus on curatorship. She has cultivated an interest in the archive study of the Union of Visual Artists in Romania (UAP) ever since 2011 when the results of her archive research were published in a special edition of the Studia Politica (No.4/ 2011), entitled ”Continuities and Contrasts in the Post-communist Romanian Artistic Space”. She has specialised in the history of contemporary art, with a focus on curatorial theory. She has previously worked on and published archive research articles on the Romanian art scene between 1970 – 1990 under the coordination of prof Caterina Preda. Stoenescu’s interest is currently focused on the topics of post-photographic images and the status of the artist in contemporary society, especially in Eastern Europe.