Textile works of Otto Krause
XXX, 2025
Hand-guided machine embroidery, quilting
Faux leather, lacquer fabric, crushed velvet, felt, fleece, viscose, latex, USB, PrEP, Viagra, digital video
104x133 cm
A mystic pharmaco-erotic meow-meow cyber sigil altar
In this piece, a molded digital container distributes seductive spells and cybernated impulses of pixelated moans and sweaty flesh in thrusting motions. Porn is both screenplay and choreography for modern intimacy - a state of chemically induced lust evoked by the artificial glow of enhancement.
Adam.dmg / Adam.exe, 2025
Knitted wool textile, black powder-coated steel bedframe
73×193 cm
This installation explores the convergence of algorithmic aesthetics and corporeal intimacy through knitting—a deliberately domestic, traditionally gendered medium. At its core is AdamNet (Anatomically Disruptive Artificial Male Network), a bespoke neural network born from the digital rib of mainstream AI and trained on a curated corpus of phallic forms - the phallgorithms. Developed by queer technologists, erotic historians, and fiber artists, AdamNet rejects cisnormative datasets in favour of ambiguity, aesthetic failure, and gently erotic glitches—forms made not for titillation, but for textile translation.
Using these phallgorithmically generated bodies, the work reimagines masculine objecthood in a post-authentic era. The metal bedframe—part structure, part submission—becomes a tension site where softness isn’t just allowed, but insisted upon. Fiber, once a tool of domestic labor, here acts as a sensual, coded, and subversively warm provocateur—each stitch carrying the imprint of queer care and computational curiosity.
Demon Scrolls I,II,III, 2025
Knitted wool and acrylic wool, cotton, quilted lacquer fabric, chains and lucky charms
19,5 x 247 / 19,5 x 237 / 19,5 x 247 cm
At once devotional and defiant, the tableau destabilizes heteronormative iconography, weaponizing queer embodiment as both spectacle and sacrament. Fusing fibers with industrial relics, the piece channels the erotic sublime through a demonic manga vernacular.
Bubble Butt Boy, 2025
Digital embroidery on polyester, quilted faux leather frame with green wool trim
60x60 cm
Bubble Butt Boy is a playful interrogation of gendered embodiment, where the ass—digitally embroidered with loving precision—emerges as both object and agent. Situated between soft sculpture and suggestive icon, the work queers traditional binaries of masculinity and femininity through texture, form, and irreverence. Framed in quilted faux leather and trimmed with green wool, the piece nestles itself between fetish and felt—where gender performs, jiggles, and resists containment.
QAnus, 2024
Hand-guided machine embroidery, custom-made fringes and tassels, and hot glue on black velvet
190 x 115 cm
QAnus is a multidisciplinary, artistic concept that subverts conspiracy theories and their representatives such as QAnon. It is a strong, satirical-artistic strategy to support opponents and the queer community in resisting such theories and to serve as a creative-subversive exposure of these dangerous mechanisms.
The QAnus flag uses stylistic elements from QAnon flags, such as the lettering ‘Where we go one we go all’, the large Q as a symbol of the movement or the snakes of the so-called Gadsden flags, which are used by both left-wing but primarily right-wing U.S. groups.