25 long years after her first exhibition in Prague, Hélène Binet, one of the world's most important architectural photographers, returns at last to the Czech Republic. In 2026, she is showing a new body of work exploring Jewish villas and country houses - photographs taken for a research project based at the University of Oxford, in which the National Heritage Institute is a key partner. Exemplifying the spirit of this pan-European research project, this exhibition opened first at Strawberry Hill House in London, passed the spring and summer Waddesdon Manor, and has now arrived at Villa Stiassni via the Liebermann Villa on Lake Wannsee in Berlin.

The exhibition consists of 24 framed photographs, taken with an Arca Swiss F Classic 4×5 large format analog camera and occasionally with a Hasselblad 500C. Some are chromogenic prints (c-prints) and others are silver gelatin prints hand printed in London. The exhibition includes information about the historic houses themselves, complementing the book Jewish Country Houses (Profile Books, 2024) which Binet has produced with Juliet Carey and Abigail Green.

The photographs depict the following buildings: Villa Tugendhat, Brno (CZ), Villa Kérylos, Beaulieu-Sur-Mer, French Riviera (FR), Liebermann Villa on Lake Wansee, Berlin (DE), Villa Montesca, Umbria (I), Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire, (UK), Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, London (UK), Nymans, West Sussex (UK), Hughenden Manor, Buckinghamshire (UK), and the Montfiore Synagogue and Mausoleum at Ramsgate in Kent (UK). 

The exhibition is held under the patronage of JUDr. Markéta Vaňková, Mayor of the City of Brno, and Mgr. Jan Grolich, Governor of the South Moravian Region.