Flags and Banners
Figurative Felt Sculptures: Expressive Portraits and Symbolic Assemblages
Lotte Hauss creates visionary scenes and mask-like figures by combining needle-felted wool with acrylic, metal leaf, organic materials, and textiles. A central element of her work, these hand-felted sculptures – often inspired by mythological or dreamlike motifs – serve as mediators between the inner world and the outer image, embodying a spiritual dialogue that is both touching and unsettling. In the series It Rained Fish in 1984, Hauss transforms wool into expressive portraits and symbolic object assemblages, blurring the lines between materiality and mysticism.
„Talking to ghosts II" 2024
Needle felted portrait banner, inspired by the archeological discovery
of the “Ice maiden of Ukok”
„Talking to ghosts II" 2024, Wool, Acrylic Paint, Leaf Gold, Metal, Bones, 180x100cm
„Talking to ghosts II" 2024, Wool, Acrylic Paint, Leaf Gold, Metal, Bones, 180x100cm
„Talking to ghosts II" 2024, Wool, Acrylic Paint, Leaf Gold, Metal, Bones, 180x100cm, Detail
In the Studio while working on : „Talking to ghosts II" 2024,
In the Studio while working on : „Talking to ghosts II" 2024,
Listen to my Podcast with Kim Trainor and Marc T. Suess about the mystery od the Siberian Icemaiden.
We first came into contact with Kim Trainor through a shared fascination: the figure often known as the Siberian Ice Maiden, the tattooed Iron Age woman unearthed from the frozen Pazyryk burial grounds in Siberia. In Trainor’s Ledi, this discovery becomes a poetic investigation — one that follows the archaeological record, but also opens onto grief, intimacy, memory, and the strange force with which the dead continue to address the living.
"It Rained Fish in 1984" 2023
Needle felted Portrait of a man, on who’s house it rained fish,
according to a newspaper article from 1984.
"It Rained Fish in 1984" 2023, Acrylic Paint, leaf Metal, Wool, Wood, Rubber, Canvas, 90x150cm
"It Rained Fish in 1984" 2023, Acrylic Paint, leaf Metal, Wool, Wood, Rubber, Canvas, 90x150cm, Detail
Older exhibition view
"It Rained Fish in 1984" 2023, Acrylic Paint, leaf Metal, Wool, Wood, Rubber, Canvas, 90x150cm, detail
"It Rained Fish in 1984" 2023, Acrylic Paint, leaf Metal, Wool, Wood, Rubber, Canvas, 90x150cm, Close up
„Sophia-Holy enough to bleed on" 2025
with maison Douce Artcollective
Procession banner with needle felted dove. Sometimes the dove is seen as the gnostic Sophia. She is not the savior. She is the witness. The wounded guide. The mother of broken tongues and burning books.
Procession banner, velvet, felt sculpture, leaf gold. 95 x 45 cm, (2025).
Procession banner, velvet, felt sculpture, leaf gold. 95 x 45 cm, (2025). Detail
Procession banner, velvet, felt sculpture, leaf gold. 95 x 45 cm, (2025). Detail
Procession banner, velvet, felt sculpture, leaf gold. 95 x 45 cm, (2025). Back side
Procession banner, velvet, felt sculpture, leaf gold. 95 x 45 cm, (2025). Detail back
Procession banner, velvet, felt sculpture, leaf gold. 95 x 45 cm, (2025). Detail back
„The Mater’s House is on fire" 2025
with Maison Douce Artcollective
Procession Banner with needle felted eye. A sacred object for unsacred times.
A reminder that no structure is eternal.
Procession banner "The Master's House is on fire", velvet, felt sculpture, leaf gold. 95 x 45 cm, (2025).
Performance Maison Douce, Pandora Gallery Berlin, 2025 with procession Banner
Backside "The master's House is on fire" velvet, felt sculpture, leaf gold. 95 x 45 cm, (2025).
Performance Maison Douce, Pandora Gallery Berlin, 2025 with procession Banner
Detail. "The master's House is on fire" velvet, felt sculpture, leaf gold. 95 x 45 cm, (2025).
"The Master’s House is on Fire" Maison Douce Artcollective, Procession banner, velvet, felt sculpture, leaf gold. 95 x 45 cm, (2025).
“Motherfucker (honorary title)” 2022, Acrylic Paint, leaf Metal, Wool, Canvas, 180x150cm
"Mutterleib" 2023, Oil Paint, leaf Metal, Wool, Textiles, Canvas, 105x120cm
"Wolfmother" 2024, 90x100cm, Textiles, Wool, Leather
Future Archeology I
Artifacts left behind by a future society.
Artifacts of a future we do not know, whose form of society, rites, hopes, in other words, its nature remains in mysterious darkness, and can only emerge based on the interpretation of its relics as a fantastic entity.
All works can be viewed and purchased at my studio. Price list by mail request.
Interview on “Mutterleib” and the “Future Artefacts” series
2023 Produced by sweetspo@studio