Helena Albertová graduated from the Secondary Technical School of Interior Design. She worked in the Youth (Mládí) Drama Ensemble as a director’s assistant, designer, and actress. Starting in 1961, she was a stage technician at the West Bohemian Theatre in Klatovy. After moving to Prague, she worked as an upholsterer at the Vinohrady Theatre, and in 1965, she began studying philosophy and sociology at Charles University. After graduating, she worked at Krátký Film, among others. In 1975, she began working in the scenography department of the Theatre Institute, where she was involved in many editions of the Prague Quadrennial, and from 1990 to 1995, she held the position of director. She has written many specialist publications on scenography and has curated many exhibitions both in the Czech Republic and abroad. She has written numerous theatre and radio plays.

Her husband was actor and playwright Pavel Landovský (1936–2014).

After graduating from the Secondary School of General Education in Chomutov, she began her studies at the Faculty of Education in Ústí n. Labem in the field of mathematics and geography. An avid reader and visitor of theatre performances, she was soon tempted by theatre science, which she graduated from the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague in 1974 in combination with the Czech language.

Already during her studies, she worked at the National Theatre Archive in Prague, which she headed from 1991 to 2016. She has a great contribution to the creation of the first online theatre database in the Czech Republic. It gives access to the activities of the National Theatre since its foundation in 1883, including the daily repertoire.

She has contributed to forty publications on theatrical topics.