BIOGRAPHY

Yasmine Helou is an Italian-Lebanese curator whose upbringing in both Beirut and Rome significantly influenced her personal and professional pursuits. Helou’s approach to curating is characterized by an emphasis on cross-cultural dialogue and a commitment to fostering dynamic conversations on the fluctuation of meaning.

She studied  in Paris, where she gained hands-on experience in various capacities, including roles in art galleries and museums such as The Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris and the National Museum of Beirut.

Seeking to deepen her understanding of contemporary art, Yasmine Helou pursued an MA in Curatorial Practice in Venice, Italy. In 2019 she worked as assistant curator for the National Pavilion of Malta at the 58th Venice Art Biennale and contributed to the DK Zattere Curatorial Lab of the V-A-C Foundation. In 2018 Helou co-founded a.topos, a curatorial collective based in Venice, where she served as co-founder and curator until 2020.

In 2021, Helou took on the role of head of exhibitions and events at Venice Art Projects, curating and organizing a series of exhibitions and cultural events aimed at revitalizing abandoned spaces in Venice’s Castello district. In an attempt to reconsider space and time, she is particularly interested in working site-specifically in unconventional venues, collaboratively with the artists. Through the tensions between subject and object, sum and substance, architecture and nature, daydreaming and active engagement her curatorial endeavours aim to question the static understanding of meaning, while prompting novel readings of tangible or intangible landscapes; whether political, cultural or historical, personal or universal. While still organizing projects in Venice, Helou’s curatorial work extends internationally, with involvement in projects across Mexico City, Athens, Beirut, London, Paris, and beyond.

In 2024 she pursued her second MA in Curating Contemporary Art  at the Royal College of Art in London.

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