MAISON DOUCE
Artist Duo by
Lotte hauss and Marc thaddaeus suess
Maison Douce is an art collective based in Berlin and Hamburg (Germany), by Lotte Hauss and Marc Thaddaeus Suess. In performances, sculptures and installations, the duo explores the archaic origins of art and explores contemporary relationships to ritual, mythology and the sacred in artistic expression. Their practice draws on mythology, archaeology, dream interpretation and occult traditions - fed by a longing for connection to that which has been repressed from cultural memory but remains deeply anchored in the human condition.
Maison Douce stages ritual acts that lead the audience into immersive, trance-like spaces - for example in the full-length performance “Rauhnächte” (2024), in which sound, video and symbolic acts merge into a visionary year-end rite. In “BONES” (2023), the collective combines percussion, whispered texts and cinematic tableaux to conjure up the ancestors. Object-like works such as the 2024 series “Benediction I”, an edition of gold-plated baseball bats, also transform everyday objects into cultic artifacts between violence and consecration.
Liturgical references, banners, flags, textiles and gold-plated materials are used alongside music, trance and ecstasy – enabling a direct experience that appeals to the subconscious through archetypal symbols and sensations. This creates collective spaces in which the boundary between reception and participation dissolves.
Maison Douce sees art as an act of incantation - as a way of making lost stories tangible again and transforming the invisible into the visible.
Lotte Hauss
Lotte Hauss is an artist working across painting, textile sculpture, installation and performance. Her practice draws on historical image traditions, mythology, religion and ritual, exploring how images, beliefs and cultural narratives are constructed, transmitted and transformed. Traditional techniques such as oil painting and portraiture meet materials including wool, gold and bones.
“MY ART IS A DIALOGUE BETWEEN LIFE, DEATH, AND BEAUTY, MY MORTAL HEART AND THE ETERNAL COSMIC FORCES.”
After graduating in sculpture and painting from HFBK Hamburg, where she studied with Matt Mullican, she continued as a Meisterschülerin in painting with Prof. Adamski at HfBK Dresden. Her artistic research combines historical and visual sources with intuitive and body-based practices, including trance and channeling. For Hauss, these different forms of knowledge are not opposites, but parallel ways of approaching images, symbols and experiences that resist a single interpretation.
Her work moves between the material and the immaterial, the historical and the speculative, often returning to questions of transformation, the sacred and the stories through which we understand ourselves.
Marc T. Suess
Marc Thaddaeus Suess is an artist, creative director, and storyteller. His artistic practice is characterized by the fusion of ritual and performance, as well as the exploration of immersive narrative techniques, creating multi-layered narrative works in the form of documentaries, performances and objects. The visualization of archetypes, recurring motifs across cultures and time are a central focus.
“ART IS A PRIMAL FORCE THAT DRAGS US INTO THE ABYSS, REVEALING THE CHAOS AND MEANING THAT WRESTLE WITHIN THE DARKNESS OF OURSELVES.”
Suess explores the origins of art and creativity by traveling to folk rituals and mystical places, conducting interviews with creatives, and working collaboratively with media researchers, philosophers, and mystics.
As a podcaster and lecturer, he regularly gives insights into creativity and culture and shares his passion for exploring new forms of storytelling.
exhibitions & performances
2026
“Saint Inbetween”, Exhibition and performance, The Fool, Berlin, Germany
“Rites of Spring”, Exhibition and performance, Art Salon with Morgen Contemporary Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2025
“Between Worlds”, Exhibition and performance, Mega Contemporary, Hamburg, Germany
“Contemporary Rituals”, Contrada Piatone, Exhibition and performance, Ostuni, Italy
“The Master’s House is on Fire”, Exhibition and live performance, Pandora Art Gallery, Berlin, Germany
“Totem”, Soiree and open Studio, Loft in Winterhude, Hamburg, Germany
“Vor meiner Tür”, Annual exhibition of the BBK (Berufsverband bildender Künstler*innen) including the opening performance, Hamburg, Germany
2024
"Open studio”, Mothership Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
"Ancient Wisdom", Performance feat. Suzanne Schreve, Mothership Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
„Date with the Devil“, Mothership Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
„Souvenirs“, Mothership Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
„Urban witchcraft“, Mothership Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
„Transzendenz & Pop“, Open Studio with live music and reading by author Frank Berzbach, Mothership Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
2023
"In vino veritas", Mindspace, Hamburg, Germany
"Art by Wash", Wash Art Compound, Compton (Los Angeles), USA
"Ride it like ou mean it", Art gang Studios, Los Angeles, USA
"Demeter", Performance, Ostuni, Italy
"Open Stage", Show & Concert feat. Sam Stokes, Mothership Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
2022
"From Ashes to Eden II“, Loft in Winterhude, Hamburg, Germany
"Kunst mit Haltung", Charity art show & auction, Loft in Winterhude, Hamburg, Germany
"Soirée“, Loft in Winterhude, Hamburg, Germany
"Bones" Performance, Gut Zahren, Jahren, Germany
2021
"From Ashes to Eden“, Savoir Vivre, Hamburg, Germany
SELECTED Press
“RauhNächte zwischen den Jahren”
(Radio Feature NDR Kultur, 2024)A radio feature on Maison Douce’s performance Rauhnächte at the English Theatre Hamburg.
“Rising Stars: Meet Maison Douce”
(Interview with Voyage LA, Sept 2024)“It’s all about keeping things weird and sacred at the same time.”
The playful and the divine.
“Meet Maison Douce”
(Interview with Canvas Rebel, Dec 8th 2023)Excerpt: “What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?
Connections. To the past, present and future. To traditions and new technologies. To the most foreign, weird and f*cked up ideas, as well as to pop culture and the Zeitgeist. To every experience coming your way, good or bad, as being part of a creative journey. The playful and the divine. The whole world and the great big fat lurking nothingness. But most of all, connection to yourself and other people.”