Maison Douce Art Collective

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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 seeks a collective reconnection to 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.