Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 Danielle Arnaud Gallery London Echo
2023 Five Years London Hanging in the Balance
2011 Hayward Gallery Concrete Café, Bar at the Hayward
2002 Galerie Nei Liicht, Dudelange Luxembourg
2001 Fiedler Contemporary, Cologne, collaborative installation with Stefan Eberstadt
2000 Ausstellungsraum Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse, Leipzig after image
1999 Matt’s Gallery, London
1998 Galerie Ulrich Fiedler, Cologne
1996 Matthew Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College, Dundee
1995 Barbican Foyer Gallery, London Blind Spot, Cell 1
1994 Gilmour Gallery, London
1991 Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
1991 Krefeld Kunstverein Photoworks
Performances
2024 Danielle Arnaud Gallery London Turn and Return with dancer Antoinette Brooks-Daw
2023 Brixton Library its song with dancer Antoinette Brooks-Daw
2022 Dulwich Picture Gallery Helen Frankenthaler exhibition picture gallery with Camberwell College of Arts
2019 Chisenhale Studios, Salon for a Speculative Future
2017 Grand Square, Greenwich, Incandescent collaboration with Lucy Gunning and Bernice Donszelmann
2018 Whitstable Biennale - [these roarers] collaboration with Lucy Gunning and Bernice Donszelmann
2018 Tate Modern stairwell, CSM Tate Exchange, where walls meet
2017 Architectural Association Hooke Park, pine beech pine
2016 West Bay Dorset, Breath organised by Force 8
2016 Central Saint Martins Wolfgang Tillmans Eu Referendum Poster Campaign
2015 Camberwell College of Arts another life
2015 Coleman Project Space Enclosed Garden: after Cy Twombly Untitled – A Painting in Nine Parts
2014 Royal Festival Hall, unannounced intervention triangles and circles
2014 Central Saint Martins Kings Cross Estates room to room
Selected Exhibitions
2023 Brixton Library, Architectures in Air co-curated with Bernice Donszelmann/Outside Architecture
2021 Utopia in Crisis, Bauhaus University Weimar curated by Daniel Sturgis and Katharina Wendler
2021 Spiritual Exercises 1 and 2, Arts Chaplaincy Projects, London curated by Mark Dean
2020 APT Gallery London, the Undersides of Practice curated by Cath Ferguson and Della Gooden
2019 Winchester Gallery, Winchester School of Art, Come and go. Halt extreme left.
2019 Bauhaus: Utopia in Crisis curated by Dan Sturgis, Camberwell Space
2019 Thames Side Studios Gallery Drift
2017 Stephen Lawrence Gallery London, Plan Unplan curated by Outside Architecture
2015 Coleman Project Space ways from here to there: Rochelle Fry, Mary Maclean, Helen Robertson
2015 Hayward Gallery, London History is Now: 7 Artists take on Britain
2012 Manchester City Art Gallery Focal Points: Art and Photography
2012 Studio Voltaire London, SV12 selected by Jenni Lomax and Mike Nelson
2012 Dienstgebaeude, Zurich Young British Artists II, curated Ryan Gander and Christina von Rotenhan
2011 Tsinghua University, Beijing Scope – new photographic practices
2007 Video Art Festival Prague, Gambit Factory
2006 Nuit Blanche programme of films curated by Lucy Reynolds, Paris
2005 Outvideo International Video-art Festival in Public Spaces, Ekaterinburg, Russia
2005-6 Arts Council Touring Exhibition Size Matters Longside Gallery Yorkshire Sculpture Park,
Millais Gallery, Southampton Institute, Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham,Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster
2004 Aberdeen Art Gallery Contemporary Photographs from the Arts Council Collection
2002 Galerie Nei Liicht, Dudelange Luxembourg (solo exhibition)
2002 Five Years, London, The Difference between you and us
2001 Fiedler Contemporary, Cologne, collaborative installation with Stefan Eberstadt
2000 photography now, Berlin, Schwarzweiss
2000 The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Snowballing curated by Elizabeth Price
1999 Museum Ludwig, Cologne Abstractionen
1999 International Biennale of Photography, Turin
1999 De la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, Arts Council Collection in conjunction with Edward Weston
1999 Matt’s Gallery, London (solo exhibition)
1998 Galerie Ulrich Fiedler, Cologne (solo exhibition)
1998 Galleria Carbone, Turin, Again and Again
1998 Five Years, London What is a Photograph
1997 Stadthaus Ulm, Germany Public Relations - New British Photography
1997 Galerie Ulrich Fiedler, Cologne, Wechselstrom curated by Thomas Seelig
1996 Gasworks, London SAD curated by Rebecca Fortnum
1996 Graz, Austria steirisches herbst
1996 Whitechapel Art Gallery and Delfina, London Whitechapel Open Exhibition
1996 Mons, Belgium, Shaken not Stirred, touring to France, Luxembourg and Turin
1996 Matthew Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College, Dundee (solo exhibition)
1995 Barbican Foyer Gallery, London Blind Spot, Cell 1 (solo exhibition)
1995 Frith Street Gallery, London, Dorothy Cross, Ceal Floyer, Cornelia Parker, Helen Robertson, Bridget Smith
1995 Galerie Isabelle Bongard, Paris, De la Peau
1995 The View, Liverpool Infanta
1994 Gilmour Gallery, London
1994 La Vigie, Nimes, France, Rencontre No4
1994 Stoke-on-Trent City Museum and Art Gallery, Touched By Light
1994 Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London The Curator’s Egg
1994 Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, Open Exhibition
1991 Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth (solo exhibition)
1990 Arnolfini Gallery Maurice Hobson, Helen Robertson, Donald Rodney, Helen Underwood
Selected Publications
2024 Tracing Reich by Christopher Kul-Want illustrated exhibition leaflet
2024 Turning and Returning – exhibition essay by Professor Jane Rendell published by Danielle Arnaud Gallery
2020 Bauhaus: Utopia in Crisis, Camberwell Space ISBN 978-1-9993085-9-9
2020 Bauhaus: Utopia in Crisis, Camberwell Space ISBN 978-1-9993085-9-9
2017 Wolfgang Tillmans Tate Catalogue, Eu Referendum Performance orchestrated by Helen Robertson
2010 Blind Spot Magazine Issue 42 - 6 page feature blindspot.com/store/page2.html?mag_id=42
2005 Arts Council Publication Size Matters ISBN 1 85332 2490
2005 Concrete Photography/Konkrete Fotographie edited by Gottfried Jager ISBN 3-936646-74-0
2002 Helen Robertson, Galerie Nei Liicht, essay by Jonathan Dronsfield ISBN 2-919993-06-2
2001 The Art of Abstract Photography edited by Gottfried Jäger ISBN 3-89790-015-7
2000 Photography now (Jan. Feb. Marz.)
1999 Turin International Biennale of Photography CD-Rom
1998 Eikon Internationale Zeitschift fur Photographie & Medienkunst - Heft 25
(commissioned work for magazine pages 6-11 with essay by Rainer Stamm)
1997 Public Relations - New British Photography, published by Cantz ISBN 3-89322-338-X
1996 La Vigie Art Contemporain - carnet debord 92/96
1991 Helen Robertson, Aspex Gallery, Southern Arts Publication with essay by Andrew Brighton
1991 Photoworks, Krefeld Kunstverein
Public Collections
1999 Museum Ludwig, Cologne
1996 Arts Council of Great Britain
Selected Reviews
2020 Art Monthly (March) – Review by Peter Suchin
2018 Frieze online review Whitstable Biennale
2015 7 Artists Take On Britain Hayward Gallery Astrofella wordpress online
2012 Neue Zürcher Zeitung
2002 Luxemburger Wört (8th May)
2002 La Semaine Médicale Luxembourgeoise (May), Marie Boisseau
2001 Kunstforum (June), Uta M. Reindl
1999 Time Out (April), Martin Coomer
1999 Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (Jan), Susanne Boecker
1998 Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (April), Susanne Boecker
1996 Untitled Magazine (Summer), Juan Cruz
1996 Women’s Art Magazine (Jan), Janice Cheddie
1995 Art Monthly (Oct), Juan Cruz
1995 The Times (Aug), Sacha Craddock
1994 The Times (Oct), Sacha Craddock
1994 Time Out (Sept), Sarah Kent
1991 Guardian (Oct), Sacha Craddock
1991 Creative Camera (Dec/Jan), Mark Durden
Conference papers and Writing
2021 West 86th: Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History and Material Cultures, University of Chicago
Review Article Re-enactment: Lilly Reich’s Work Occupies the Barcelona Pavilion by Laura Martínez de Guereñu Volume 28
2020 Bauhaus: Utopia in Crisis Symposium Camberwell College of Arts
2019 Mary Maclean and Jo McGonigal essay to and fro, Journal of Contemporary Painting Vol 5 issue 2
2019 Bauhaus: Utopia in Crisis conference Camberwell College of Arts
2018 Royal Academy of Art, Experiencing Architecture Symposium, Outside Architecture paper plan unplan
2018 Leah Capaldi Lay Down Matt’s Gallery essay sadness and joy
2017 Elephant Online Magazine exhibition review Let’s Make an Unplan
2007 Camberwell College of Art, The Uncertainty of the Image conference paper
2004 Leeds University Architecture of Philosophy/ Philosophy of Architecture conference paper Itself Staged
2004 University of Manitoba, Canada interdisciplinary conference - essay The Architecture of the Photograph
published Mosaic journal 2004 ISBN 0-919475-33-7
Selected Awards/Residencies
2024 The Acme Jonathan Harvey Tenant Award
2016 Artist Residency, Mothership Dorset
2006-9 Major award Individual Artists Grant Arts Council of England
2001 5 month Fellowship in New Media and Printmaking at Isis Arts Digital and Northern Print Studio
1999 London Arts Board Individual Artists Grant
1994 London Arts Board Individual Artists Grant
1990 Southern Arts Exhibition Linked Bursary
1990 Pepinieres Residency, France
Public Lectures and Gallery Talks
2019 University of Greenwich Public Lecture Series – Mary Maclean’s Photographic Practice and Architecture
2012 In conversation Fiona Crisp, Ian Hunt, Helen Robertson, Chris Townsend Matt’s Gallery London
2011 Panel Discussion: Helen Robertson and Pryle Behrman, Jerwood Space, London
2004 Hiroshi Sugimoto, Serpentine Gallery
2003 Blinky Palermo, Serpentine Gallery
2002 Richard Artschwager, Serpentine Gallery
1999 Bridget Riley, Serpentine Gallery
1999 Andreas Gursky, Serpentine Gallery
1995 Jeff Wall, Whitechapel Art Gallery
1995 John Baldessari, Serpentine Gallery