Eksperiment og dokumentation, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen 1954. Transferred to Röhsska Museet in Gothenburg 1955.

Viborg Stiftsmuseum, Viborg 1962. Transferred to Flensburg, where works by Albert Renger-Patzsch were added.

Strukturer, with furniture designed by Poul Kjærholm, Ole Palsby Showrooms, Copenhagen 1965 (folder).

Color Photographs by Keld Helmer-Petersen, The American-Scandinavian Foundation, New York 1980.

Galleri Image, Århus 1982 (folder).

Fotograf Keld Helmer-Petersen, Danish Museum of Art and Design, Copenhagen 1990.

Keld Helmer-Petersen retrospektivt, Museum of Photographic Art, Odense 1990.

Keld Helmer-Petersen, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen 2005.

Keld Helmer-Petersen, Rocket Gallery, London 2005-2006.

Winter Graphics, Rocket Gallery, London 2007-2008.

Gallery Weinberger, Copenhagen 2009.

Back to Black, Rocket Gallery, London 2012.

Yossi Milo Gallery, New York 2014.

Un autre monde, La Maison du Danemark, Paris, France 2014.

Hidden Beauty, Phototeket, Esbjerg 2016.

Finding Beauty, The Royal Library, Copenhagen 2019.

Selected group exhibitions

Post-war European Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York 1953.

Subjektive Fotografie II, State School of Arts and Crafts, Saarbrücken 1954-1955 (book).

5 fotografer, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen 1959.

Member of the artists group Majudstillingen, 1961-1964. Annual exhibitions at the Royal Danish Horticultural Society and at Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen (catalogues).

Helmer-Petersen og Renger-Patzsch, Det danske Centralbibliotek, Flensburg, Germany 1962.

5 Danish Designers, Danish Museum of Art and Design, Copenhagen 1966.

Forårsudstillingen 1976, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen 1976 (catalogue).

7th Biennale of Photography of the Baltic Countries, Gdansk, Poland 1979.

Efterårsudstillingen 1983, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen 1983 (catalogue).

Nordisk Fotokunst, Museum of Photographic Art, Odense 1985 (catalogue, with an English translation).

Fifty Years of Modern Colour Photography 1935-86, Photokina 86, Cologne, Germany 1986.

Rencontres Photographiques en Bretagne, Lorient 1988 (catalogue).

Danske billedkunstnere fotograferer, Museum of Photographic Art, Odense 1989 (catalogue).

13 critics, 26 fotògrafs, Primavera Fotogràfica, Barcelona 1992 (catalogue, with an English translation).

MALM 1, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden 2004.

Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles 2005.

Scandinavian Photography 2: Denmark, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Iowa 2005.

New Photography from Denmark, The American-Scandinavian Foundation, New York 2006.

Arbejdermuseet, Copenhagen 2007

Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg 2007

Colour Before Color, Hasted Hunt, New York 2007

Augen Auf! 100 Jahre Leica, Hamburg, Germany 2014

Seeing big things in the small... in all simplicity (Photographer Keld Helmer-Petersen meets sculptor Mette Ussing), Banja Rathnov Gallery, Copenhagen 2020

Public works

Structures, Copenhagen Airport Kastrup Station, Kastrup 2008