Danii Pollehn

“I want to create a new perception of people with disabilities and women—humans to be respected—strong and beautiful.”

Meet Danii

Danii Pollehn is an illustrator and designer based in Hamburg, Germany. Her work encompasses imagery celebrating the natural world, botanical illustration, and the female form, including paintings, printed editions, digital illustration, and pattern design. Her editorial and lifestyle commissions include branding, packaging, and advertising campaigns, with past work for brands such as Zeit Verlagsgruppe, Neverland, Volkswagen and P&G.

Danii’s Artist Development Fund project expresses her feelings of otherness and her hope for authentic and empathetic representation of women and of disabled people, based on her own experiences. She says, “Growing up with epileptic seizures and having a brain tumor, I’ve been perceived as being imperfect, being ‘broken.’ It’s still something I fight with: to accept my condition and my past. Instead of feeling ashamed, I should be proud.”

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