Hélène Binet

Hélène Binet was born in 1959 in Switzerland. She studied photography at the European Design Institute and history of art at the University of Rome between 1982 and 1984. O her return to Geneva, she worked for two years at the Grand Théâtre before devoting herself to photography of architecture. From then on, she has not stopped collaborating with the greatest contemporary architects, including Daniel Liebeskind, Zaha Hadid and Peter Zumthor, having illustrated their work through many exhibits and publications. Besides these works, she is also leading a more personal artistic work on architects such as Alva Aalto or Le Corbusier.

Personal exhibit :

2002

• Cornerstone : 7 Projects by Daniel Libeskind, Zaha Hadid, Peter Zumthor, and Dom H. Van der Laan, Shine Gallery, London
• The Black Square, Ciac Gallery, Bucarest

2000

• Alvar Aalto’s North Jutland Art Museum, Aalborg Museum, Aalborg

1999

• Peter Zumthor : Works, Architectural Museum, Stockholm
• Waterwall, London Institute, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London

1998

• House of Culture: Alvar Aalto, Heinz Gallery, Royal Institute of British Architects, London
• Carre Portatif, La Fondation de l’Architecture et de L’Ingenierie, Luxembourg
• Peter Zumthor, Museum d’art Grischun, Grischun
• Surfaces : Architectural Photographs by Hélène Binet, Columbia University, New York

1996

• Textural Light, Building Centre, London

1995

• Hélène Binet : Architecture Photography, Berlage Institute, Amsterdam

1990

• Relatives : Complete Works of John Hejduk, Fragnera Gallery, Prague

1989

• Hélène Binet, Arup Associates, London

Collective exhibit (selection) :

2002

• Shadows, Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt, exhibition on Shadows in Architecture, co-curated by Helene Binet
• Geoffrey Bawa, Architectural Association, London

2000

• Zaha Hadid, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
• Inscriptions : Jewish Museum by Daniel Libeskind, Enkehuset Gallery, Stockholm

1999

• Tommorow Forever : La Phographie en tant que ruine, Kunstalle Krems, Krems
• The Presence of Construction : Caruso St John’s Walsall Art Gallery, Architectural Association, London
• Photography as a Ruin, Duisburg, Museum of Duisburg

1997

• Other Soundings : Selected Works by John Hejduk, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal

1995

• Stadt in Latenz, Architectural Forum, Linz

1992

• Machines d’Architecture : John Hejduk, Cartier Fondation, Paris

1991

• Site Works, Photographers’ Gallery, London

1989

• Pikionis, Architectural Association, London
• Pikionis, Venice Biennale, Greek Pavilion, Venice

Publications (selection) :

2002

• Hélène Binet : 7 Projects, Shine Gallery, London
  Wiel Arets Monograph, Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona
• Realms of Impossibility: Water, Air, Ground (3 books), Wiley-Academy, London
• The New Art Gallery Walsall by Caruso St. John, Ellipse, London
• Energies, the work of Ingenhoven Overdiek, Birkhäuser, Basel
• Geoffrey Bawa, Thames and Hudson, London
• Urban Flotsam, 010, Netherlands

2000

• Architecture of Zaha Hadid Photographed by Hélène Binet, Forward by Prof. Dr. Hubertus v. Ameluxen, Lars Müller, Zurich

1999

• The House of the Book : Work by Zvi Hecker, Black Dog Publishing, London
• Judisches Museum Berlin, Daniel Libeskind, Verlag der Kunst, Berlin
• Vitra Fire Station by Zaha Hadid, Aedes Gallery, Berlin
• North Jutland Art Museum, Elissa and Alvar Aalto and Jean-Jacques Baruël, B Publisher, Copenhagen
• The Museum of Scotland : Work by Benson & Forsyth, August Media, London

1998

• Works by Peter Zumthor, Lars Muller, Verlag der Kunst, Zurich
• Alvar Aalto, House of Culture Helsinki, Finnish Building Centre, Helsinki
• Metaspaces, Raoul Bunschoten, published by Black Dog Publishers

1997

• A Passage through Silence and Light, Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum in Berlin, Black Dog Publishing, London
• Security with work by John Hejduk, University of Oslo, Oslo Museum Hamburger Bahnhof, Koenig, Cologne

1996

• Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Gebrüder Mann Verlag, Berlin

1995

• Das Kantdreieck, Ernst & Sohn, Berlin
• Inns of Court, Black Dog Publishing, London