Research Focus Areas

Short Biography

Katerine Niedinger is a PhD candidate and university assistant at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, where she carries out her research under the supervision of Professor Manuela Ciotti as part of the ERC-funded project “The Anthropology of the Future: An Art World Perspective” (ANTHROFUTURE). Her research focuses on digital art at international art fairs. Through ethnographic fieldwork across Asia and Europe, she explores how technologies shape experiences of art in increasingly interconnected physical–digital settings; she engages with material, sensory, imaginative, and immaterial dimensions of these environments. Katerine holds an MSc in Social Anthropology from Stockholm University and a BA in Anthropology and Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Grounded in more-than-human and decolonial approaches, her research has focused on art and craft practices, digital mediation, and art market infrastructures. Her MA dissertation explored these themes through a sensory ethnography of basketry and plant–human relations in Eswatini. Beyond academia, Katerine has worked in the art world for over a decade across galleries, artist studios, private collections, and art publishing. She also works as a translator and editor.

Research Group

ANTHROFUTURE
The Anthropology of the Future: An Art World Perspective
https://www.anthrofuture.com/

We aim to generate a new and decolonised anthropology of the future through multimodal ethnographic research on Global South physical–digital art worlds.