Nicole Pallecchi

Nicole Pallecchi is a documentary filmmaker and broadcaster based in Brooklyn, NY. Her films investigate overlooked historical figures and artists, including works on a Nazi art dealer, painter Dolores Wyss, and textile artist Eva Aeppli.

Swiss-Italian Nicole Pallecchi works in broadcasting as Deputy Head of 3sat Switzerland while pursuing documentary filmmaking on the side. Her films examine overlooked or complicated historical figures: a Nazi art dealer in 2017, painter Dolores Wyss in 2022, and most recently, textile and sculpture artist Eva Aeppli. She began in video arts, exhibiting at Swiss institutions before founding and curating the exhibition series veni vidi video at Forumclaque in Baden. Her Eva Aeppli film undertakes a discovery journey into the work of an avant-gardist whose work had long fallen into obscurity. She returns to artists who resisted easy categorization and institutional attention.