Heilmann is engaged in socio-technical and techno-social realities, and works in an interdisciplinary way, both alone and in collaboration. She engages with her material on a user-level, rather than from the position of the expert. Working both alone and in collaborative constellations, and within somewhat messy production schemes, she often ends up with mise-en-scenes of cultural production, open to fluid hierarchies between props, gestures and auteurs. Lately lectures, soap, clothing and radio have been her primary outputs, dealing with soul, sexuality and life in 2D in general.

Heilmann lives and works in Copenhagen. She received as MA in Art History from the University of Copenhagen and is the Co-director of TOVES. She runs the radio station GeneralBootyofWork.net with a growing circle of associates and is a member of collective Ingen Frygt 2001-10. She is currently working on a show for 221A, Vancouver, and four days of broadcasts with GBW/TOVES from the 1997 Venice Biennale. Heilmann has performed and exhibited at the National Gallery in Vilnius (for BCC); Kunstraum, London; Fylkingen, Stockholm; Galeria Vermelho, Sao Paulo, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo (w. TOVES, representing 1857); Neter, Mexico City; and KØS, Denmark.