I wanted to become a designer. I wanted to make things people ask for, but people often ask for the wrong things. Thus, I make art. I find beauty in repetition, in making things with my hands, and in the unremarkable. I am drawn to soft, delicious, and discarded materials.

Leonie Hillmann (*1998) is a German artist currently based in the Netherlands. Before studying design, she completed a degree in Business Administration, shaping her attention to how value operates within production and culture. Her work insists on slowness and rest, explores refusal of consumption, and draws on feminist approaches to labor and material value. She holds a B.A. in Design from the Design Academy Eindhoven.