Konstrukt
Wood, hammer, nail.
Tools of construction.
Konstrukt examines the invisible structures through which masculinity is formed, performed, and sustained. The work is situated in rural Bavaria and focuses on adolescence as a phase marked by transition, vulnerability, and social conditioning.
By working within close social contexts, Konstrukt exposes the tension between individual presence and inherited expectations. The project does not propose conclusions; instead, it holds masculinity as a mutable construct shaped by place, history, and observation.
Konstrukt has been presented in various exhibition contexts, including EMOP Berlin 2025 and the Museumsquartier Osnabrück.
Galopp
Kunstquartier Bethanien
Mariannenpl. 2
10997 Berlin
Kunstquartier Bethanien
Mariannenpl. 2
10997 Berlin
Meet Me Halfway
EMOP Special c/o
Leipziger Strasse 5
10117 Berlin
EMOP Special c/o
Leipziger Strasse 5
10117 Berlin
Felix-Schoeller-Award
Museumsquartier Osnabrück
Lotter Straße 2
49078 Osnabrück
Museumsquartier Osnabrück
Lotter Straße 2
49078 Osnabrück
Galopp
HTW Berlin
Wilhelminenhofstraße 75A
12459 Berlin
HTW Berlin
Wilhelminenhofstraße 75A
12459 Berlin
Galopp
HTW Berlin
Wilhelminenhofstraße 75A
12459 Berlin
HTW Berlin
Wilhelminenhofstraße 75A
12459 Berlin
Vokabular
Photography can be understood as a tool for orientation — an attempt to approach what remains partially inaccessible.
Vokabular engages with a landscape in constant transformation. Lanzarote, shaped by volcanic activity and wind, appears not as a neutral setting but as an active counterpart that resists clear definition. The island functions as a field of tension in which observation, encounter, and uncertainty intersect.
Central to the project is the use of language as a structural element. Selected Spanish words are placed alongside the photographs, not as explanatory captions but as associative references. Drawing on the format of a vocabulary book, these terms interrupt linear reading and expand the interpretive space of the images.
Rather than documenting a specific place, Vokabular reflects on the conditions of photographic perception. The project examines how image and language influence, fragment, or redirect the understanding of an unfamiliar environment.
Vokabular was developed within the international Blended Intensive Programme “Mare Nostrum / Mare Tuum” and selected for publication in the accompanying magazine. The project was also published online at
Archive
Taubenzüchter, NRW 2022
Präparationswerkstatt Naturkundemuseum, Berlin
Präparationswerkstatt Naturkundemuseum, Berlin
About
Benedikt Burger is a photographer based in Berlin.
His projects have dealt with the visual construction of masculinity and the subtle mechanisms through which social environments, symbolic spaces and language shape identity, perception and belonging.
He is currently developing the series Rhizom, examining how young men from a youth club in Cottbus perform in digital spaces.
Education
2024-2026 Master of Arts, HS Bielefeld (DE)
2020-2024 Bachelor of Arts, HTW Berlin (DE)
Grants, Awards...
2025 Felix Schoeller Photo Award, Finalist
2025 BFF Förderpreis
2025 Hendrik te Neues Award, Nominee
Selected Exhibitions
upcoming
May 2026 Umweltfotofestival, Zingst (DE)
July 2026 Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin (DE)
2025 Museumsquartier, Osnabrück (DE)
2025 EMOP Special, Berlin (DE)
2025 Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin (DE)
2024 HTW, Berlin (DE)
2025 Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin (DE)
2024 HTW, Berlin (DE)