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Art as invocation

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ARTIST DUO MAISON DOUCE EXPLORES RITUAL, MYTHOLOGY AND THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF ART THROUGH IMAGES, OBJECTS AND PERFORMANCE.

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Hunting Bitch – Artwork
Hunting Bitch – Artwork

Hunting Bitch reclaims the language of battle painting for a fierce female presence aligned with Artemis, the ancient huntress of the wild. Surrounded by beasts, flame, and motion, the figure appears not as victim or ornament, but as the epicenter of force.

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Medusa Portrait – Artwork
Medusa Portrait – Artwork

Medusa appears not as monster, but as a misunderstood figure of power whose presence helped shape a body of work that continues to unfold.

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Totentanz triptychon – Artwork
Totentanz triptychon – Artwork

The triptych “Totentanz” borrows the visual language of Christian art history, but turns it toward a playful meditation on death.

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Three studies on love
Three studies on love

New Prints and Aperitivo: Maison Douce presents three new linocuts from the series exploring love, sensuality, transformation, and transcendence. Sunday, June 28, 2026

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Saint InBetween: Performance and Exhibition.
Saint InBetween: Performance and Exhibition.

“Saint InBetween Performance and Exhibition” – Maison Douce at THE FOOL, Berlin April 11th.

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BETWEEN WORLDS – Exhibition & Performance
BETWEEN WORLDS – Exhibition & Performance

BETWEEN WORLDS – Exhibition + Performance.
15 November 2025 | MEGA Contemporary, Hamburg

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Discover behind-the-scenes insights, making-of moments, immersive audio experiences, and personal reflections from within our collective.

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Sarah Elizabeth on Art, Darkness and the Unknown
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Sarah Elizabeth on Art, Darkness and the Unknown
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In the latest Transmute Tapes episode, we speak with writer and curator Sarah Elizabeth about darkness, occult art, monsters, ritual, altered states, forgotten knowledge — and our very human attraction to things we cannot fully explain.

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German Angst? Parfum als Biografie: Daniel Matousek von ART BRÜT über experimentelle Duftkunst abseits des Mainstreams
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German Angst? Parfum als Biografie: Daniel Matousek von ART BRÜT über experimentelle Duftkunst abseits des Mainstreams
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Daniel Matousek von ART BRÜT spricht mit Maison Douce über experimentelle Duftkunst, Berlin, Biografie und radikale Intuition. Ein Gespräch über Parfum als Bühne, Marke als Galerie und die Kunst, dem eigenen Geschmack mehr zu vertrauen als jedem Markttest.

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Death as Muse: Joanna Ebenstein on Morbid Anatomy, Memento Mori and the Life-Affirming Dark
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Death as Muse: Joanna Ebenstein on Morbid Anatomy, Memento Mori and the Life-Affirming Dark
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In this episode of The Transmute Tapes, Marc Suess and Lotte Hauss speak with Joanna Ebenstein, founder and creative director of Morbid Anatomy, about death as muse, memento mori, anatomical beauty, mourning, fairy tales, ritual, devotion and the life-affirming power of looking into the dark.

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Skull Portraits: inside the studio and Forgotten Rituals
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Skull Portraits: inside the studio and Forgotten Rituals
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A behind-the-scenes look into the making of The Cranium Archive, an ongoing series of skull portraits exploring memory, ritual, and inner portraiture. The video offers glimpses of studio work and the transformation of raw wool into needle-felted sculptures.

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The Mystery of the Siberian Ice Maiden: Kim Trainor on Poetry, Death, and Memory
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The Mystery of the Siberian Ice Maiden: Kim Trainor on Poetry, Death, and Memory
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Kim Trainor, Canadian poet, teacher, and author, talks to Marc Suess and Lotte Hauss about the Siberian Ice Maiden, poetry, memory, ecology, and the strange ways ancient presences continue to move through art and creative life today.

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Behind the scenes in the studio. This is where the quieter negotiations happen: between image and instinct, between ritual and labour, between what is planned and what insists on arriving anyway. #MaisonDouceArt #BehindTheScenes #Atelier #ArtistStu
Totentanz Oil stick, pastels and gold leaf on canvas. Each 30 × 10 cm, 2026. Perhaps finitude is not only a reason for fear, but also a strange invitation. This work consists of three panels, echoing the form of a Christian triptych form. Ye
Maison Douce is built on shared vision. Two sensibilities, two bodies, two ways of listening — drawn toward the same image, the same tension, the same unseen force. What we make together could not exist alone. It emerges in the space between
Jeanne d’Arc Wool, Velvet, 30 × 27 × 18 cm, 2026. The strange softness radiating from a tale of violence. Jeanne d’Arc remains one of the most enduring female archetypes in European history because she united vision, faith,
Music is passage. Improvisation and jamming are a trance state: repetition, drift, vibration, a slow opening of the inner voice. Some doors do not open with language. #MaisonDouce #PerformanceArt #Channeling #Trance #Ritual #ContemporaryArt Photo by
Art is invocation. #maisondouceart Photo by @harikrisshnan
June 28th, 2-7 pm at out studio in Hamburg. Maison Douce is showcasing three new linocuts from “Three Studies on Love” — a series exploring love, sensuality, transformation, and transcendence. The prints are handmade, limited editi
Can a skull be the most intimate portrait of a person? In this video, we take you inside our studio of and into the making of The Cranium Archive — an ongoing series about skulls, memory, inner portraiture, ritual, and the strange tenderness o
"Hexe von Endor" Oil paint on canvas. 40 × 40 cm, 2026. The Witch of Endor holds a special place in our work as a female archetype whose power is not erased, but feared, sought out, and acknowledged. She appears at the edge of sacre
Saint InBetween was here in distortion, in breath, in a collective experience She spoke through us at The Fool Berlin. Later we could still hear her whisper in silence and gold Where the echoes of the old world still linger @levradagan @esjers @t
"Rites of Spring" Wool, Acrylic Paint, Leaf Gold, Textiles on canvas. 140 × 72 × 20cm (2026). A ceremonial flag that binds mortality to renewal, holding skull, bloom, and radiance in a single emblem. #contemporaryart #maison
Some works are made. Others are received. At Maison Douce, channeling is part of the artistic process: a way of listening until the noise of intention falls away and something older, stranger, wiser begins to speak. Not as performance, not as orname
„Schamanin“ (shaman) Oil paint on canvas. 40 × 40 cm, 2026. A portrait of the most powerful female figures of European prehistory. The depicetd Shaman Woman of Bad Dürrenberg turns toward one of the most powerful female figur
Rites of Spring: exhibition and performance. Berlin, March 20–22. In an empty apartment in Berlin Mitte, we opened a space for paintings, ritual, sound, and remembrance. Rites of Spring was about one thing: the future must be made consciously f
Before the image, before the sound, before the ritual — there is research. We read mythology, study ancient rites, follow the traces of forgotten symbols and half-buried traditions. Not out of nostalgia, but to understand where art began: aroun
„Talking to Ghosts“ Wool, Acrylic Paint, Leaf Gold, Metal, Bones. 180 × 100 cm, 2024. A flag raised for the Siberian Ice Maiden. We bow to her—not out of nostalgia, but recognition. Talking to Ghosts is dedicated to the Sibe

We explore this intersection through ceremonial, symbolic and performative actions

We explore this intersection through ceremonial, symbolic and performative actions