Rachela is a multimedia artist of Italian-German descent, currently living in Italy, but born and raised in Germany. Her education includes studying philosophy, dance, and music in Germany and Fine Arts in Italy. She graduated with a master’s degree in visual arts from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna. Rachela worked for museums and additionally, for Joseph Kosuth and Sol LeWitt.
Her portfolio spans photography, installations, video, painting, digital techniques, and drawing. In these mediums, Rachela delves into aesthetic imaginaries that open up possibilities of reflection and transformation.
The diverse studies concerning architecture and intangible spaces were deepened during residencies in the West Bank at the A.M. Qattan Foundation and Decolonizing Architecture. In the West Bank, Rachela co-founded Bait al Karama, “House of Dignity”, the first women’s center in the old city of Nablus combining a culinary social enterprise with cultural activities. In Italy, she co-founded the international platform project for aesthetics in social practice Social Soups of which she was the author, curator, and producer. Social Soups 2.0 is the second edition that heads toward design and architecture around food and its production. One of Rachela’s public artworks was awarded during the Sea Art Festival/Busan Biennale in South Korea, in 2013. Her work has been shown at the Thailand Biennale 2021, in Italy (e.g. during the Venice Biennale 2015) and abroad (Japan; UK; US; India; Germany; Netherlands; and Monaco).
Next to Social Soups 2.0, Rachela works on her major project Beyond Pharmakon about disease, healing, and the social body.