Karina Pawlow, M.A.

Karina is an art and visual historian and a doctoral fellow in the Lise Meitner Group “Coded Objects,” where she examines early modern glass drawings as autonomous paper objects and witnesses to investigations of materials and craftsmanship. The project is part of her PhD thesis at the Universität zu Köln titled “Patently Clever People. The Murano Glass Industry Between Tradition and Innovation, fama and Secrecy” that she started in February 2021 within the framework of the DFG-group “Dimensions of techne in the Fine Arts.” To conduct on-site research, Pawlow received a grant from the German Study Centre in Venice (April–September 2022). Her work is situated at the intersection of art history, the history of science, and the history of technology. In addition to research in these fields and theories within the realm of New Materialism, Karina seeks to explore the artisanal epistemology embedded in the objects through personal observation, “shoptalk,” and exchanges with glassblowers.

Karina also holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and has extensive experience in content creation for social media, which she examines from a visual studies perspective.