Nicole Brachetti Peretti
Our story
Nicole Brachetti Peretti is the founder of The Nicole Brachetti Peretti Collection. Founded in 2014, the evolving Collection contains works of modern and contemporary art and is a celebration of art’s potential to catalyse the creation of a society founded on freedom of expression, intercultural dialogue, tolerance and peace.
The Nicole Brachetti Peretti Collection champions emerging artists and amplifies their diverse voices. Through her Collection, Brachetti Peretti highlights the differing artistic interpretations of the world, of the human condition, in turn providing an opportunity to examine the societies in which we live through the eyes of the artists themselves, perhaps altering our own viewpoints.
The themes that have driven the growth of the Nicole Brachetti Peretti Collection are highly philosophical and reflective. Artworks included in the Collection examine concepts of time and space as subjective contrivances. So too do they explore architectural, scientific and moral principles, and posit challenges to socio-political issues such as globalisation.
Our objective
Brachetti Peretti’s primary objective for the Collection is to support what she believes is the vital dissemination of art to the masses, bringing art to the people at a global level. On that basis, the Collection is open to lending the artwork to museums, either for specific exhibitions or as long-term loans. She has conjured a creative swell of different cultures and traditions through the Collection, promoting an increased understanding, tolerance and sensitivity for the diverse world views represented.
Inspiration also came from a friend’s artistic initiative in Southern Spain, the NMAC Foundation. The Foundation is a non-profit institution which focuses on how contemporary art can exist in perfect harmony with nature. It invites international artists to create site-specific commissions that are in tune with the landscape and cultural context of NMAC. The Nicole Brachetti Peretti Collection is affiliated to NMAC.
Since 2006, Nicole Brachetti Peretti has been a member of the Latin American Acquisitions Committee (LAAC) of the Tate Americas Foundation, an independent charity that supports the work of the Tate Gallery in the United Kingdom. Established in 2002, the LAAC is Tate’s first acquisition committee to proactively shift the museum’s art historical narratives beyond a US-Eurocentric canon.
The members of the LAAC Committee are involved in adding to the collection and over 300 works by more than 100 different artists from Latin America have been acquired so far, including pieces by Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Lygia Clark, Gego, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Guillermo Kuitca, Cildo Meireles and Hélio Oiticica. The artwork is either purchased through the Committee or received as gifts and is regularly shown at Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, and Tate St Ives. Tate also loans the works to major retrospectives, group exhibitions and biennials around the world.
In 2017, Nicole Brachetti Peretti was one of the first outside investors of the prestigious photo agency Magnum. The main aim of the investment was to help the agency continue developing in an ever-changing digital landscape.
Nicole lives in London with her family.