Bottega Veneta introduces Bottega Veneta for the Artsa new collaborative series commissioned by the Creative Director Louise Trotter. The initiative establishes a dialogue between the house and contemporary professionals in different disciplines, inviting each participant to respond to their history through an individual perspective. The series opens with a British photographer Peter Fraserwhich turns its attention to Venice and frames the city through a focused photographic study.
Fraser presents a sequence of 27 images that examine Venice beyond its established identity as a cultural landmark. His approach focuses on material, form and colour, moving between close observations and wider views. These displacements allow the work to move between detail and scale, capturing surfaces, architectural elements and spatial relationships. The city appears through fragments and structures, forming a visual narrative that develops through variety in distance and composition.
Born in Wales in 1953, Fraser developed his practice through travel and observation, with time in New York and West Africa and Europe shaping his approach to photography as research. His work focuses on visual exploration, driven by what he describes as the luminous and the mysterious, a perspective that informs his study of Venice.
Bottega Veneta gave Fraser complete freedom to deal with the house and its collections. He replied to Summer 2026 collection, designed by Louise Trotterusing it as a reference point in the series. The Veneto region, where the house was founded in 1966, provides a contextual link between the collection and the site. In this context, the images also include new iterations of branded product families such as Baby Veneta, incorporating the house’s design language into the photographic sequence.
Bottega Veneta for the Arts continues a series of creative collaborations developed by the house. Previous projects include working with Duane Michals at What are dreams? with the campaign Jacob Elordias well as a collaboration with a painter Poppy Jones. This new series extends this direction, emphasizing the constant exchange between the home and modern professionals.
Through this initiative, Bottega Veneta connects its Venetian origins with current artistic practices. The series develops through individual contributions, each shaped by a distinct method and point of view.
