Hello, this is Rachele. Full name Rachele Orsola Bugini. I moved from Italy to Germany in 2012 as an au pair after completing my studies and settled in Berlin, which has become my home.
I was a very creative child. Today, I use that creativity to find solutions for people.
Books and films feed my curiosity. After a long pause, I have returned to making art through painting and collage, for the fun of it and to stimulate the mind, creating space for new connections.
self-portrait, 6.2026
A lot of what I do starts from everyday life: noticing what could be simpler, more human or more intentional, and turning that into something practical, visual or worth exploring. I try to make more conscious choices about the food I eat and what I consume in general.
Together with a long-time friend, I built probio.studio, a project that looks at fermentation up close and experiments with different ways of making it visible and tangible. Through kombucha and other ferments, workshops and a more artistic approach to photography and visual storytelling, we try to make these living processes visible, showing fermentation not only as a way of making food, but as something worth looking at. You can find more about the project here: probio.studio.
My path so far:
experience
Onboarding and product creation
Language test analysis and execution
Postal voting staff member
Student assistant in mail services
education
Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft BA
Lingue e letterature straniere moderne BA
Together with the same long-time friend behind probio.studio, I have also been designing and building apps through bumu.studio, starting from needs and frustrations we notice in everyday life. Our first app, Compactic, came from our own experience with procrastination and distraction. It is a mechanical timer designed to make starting a task feel a little easier and staying with it a little more natural, using sounds recorded from mechanical kitchen timers.
If you’d like to know more about what I do, or if you have an idea for a collaboration, feel free to get in touch. You can find my email address linked below.