Benjamin Busch is a US/German visual artist living in Berlin. First trained as an architect (M.A. Arch.), he received his M.A. in Spatial Strategies in 2017 from the Weissensee Academy of Art, Berlin. He employs architecture as a narrative device in his research-led artistic practice. Through critical writing, social practice, and installation and new media artworks, Busch engages the production of space as a convergence of its perceived, conceived, and lived modalities. He was a 2021–22 participant of BPA// Berlin program for artists and co-directed The Institute for Endotic Research (TIER) from 2018 to 2022.
CV
Education
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2014 – 2017
M.A. Raumstrategien (Spatial Strategies / Art in Public Space)
Profs. Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann
Weissensee Academy of Art Berlin -
2010 – 2011
M.A. Architecture
University of Kansas / Universität Stuttgart -
2005 – 2010
Master of Architecture (M.Arch. I, Hons.)
University of Kansas / FH Potsdam
Teaching
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2024 – Present
Lecturer
B.A. Music and Sound Design for Visual Media
Catalyst Institute for Creative Arts and Technology, Berlin -
Summer 2026
Lecturer
Berlin Summer University of the Arts
Universität der Künste Berlin -
Summer 2020
Lecturer
M.A. Raumstrategien
Weissensee Academy of Art Berlin
Selected Residencies, Grants and Awards
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2025
Residency
BEK Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts -
2024
Research grant for visual artists
Berlin Senate -
2022
Golden Cube, Honorable Mention
Kassel Documentary Film Festival -
2022
Research grant for visual artists
Berlin Senate -
2021
Production grant
Between Bridges Foundation -
2020
Grant for visual artists Neustart Kultur
Stiftung Kunstfonds -
2020
Residency
AADK Spain Centro Negra -
2016
Mart-Stam-Stipendium / Deutschlandstipendium
Weissensee Academy of Art Berlin