Professorship for Sociology of the Arts
Organisational unit: Professoship
Organisation profile
Die Soziologie der Künste informiert, lehrt und forscht zu allen Bereiche der Künste in der traditionellen Hochkultur (z.B. Einrichtungen der bildenden Kunst, Museen, Theater, Opernhäuser, Konzerthäuser der klassischen Musik usw.) und in der Populärkultur (Populärmusik, soziokulturelle Zentren, Festivals usw.). Theoretische Grundlagen werden v.a. in dem umfangreichen Reservoir nordamerikanischer und französischer Theorien zur Kulturorganisation gefunden.
Main research areas
Ein erster Lehr- und Forschungsschwerpunkt ist die Analyse der Kulturorganisation, also der Vergegenständlichung bzw. der Organisation der Produktion, des Vertriebs und der Konsumption von Kultur und Künsten. Dazu gehören Fragen der politischen Beeinflussung, der Kommerzialisierung, der Technologisierung, der Teilhabe, der Bedeutung gesellschaftlich-politischer Umfelder und der Zusammenarbeit in und zwischen Kulturorganisationen.
Zweitens werden Ursachen, Funktionen und Bedeutungen der Künste und Kultur in der Stadt erforscht und gelehrt. Kulturorganisationen wirken in ihren vielfältigen Facetten latent und manifest auf das Urbane auf den Ebenen des Physischen (Firstspace, z.B. Stadtplanung), des Kognitiv-Mentalen (Secondspace, z.B. Stadtimage) und des Politischen (Thirdspace, z.B. Kultur als kommunalpolitisches Ziel). Künste und Kulturorganisationen in der Stadt werden vor der Allgegenwart des Spätkapitalismus in unserer Gesellschaft wahrgenommen und untersucht.
Drittens werden einzelne Bereiche der Kulturproduktion, insbesondere Museen, aber auch Musikstätten und Künstlergruppen auf ihre Einflussnahme auf die Gestaltung der Gesellschaft untersucht.
Insgesamt spielen dabei aus makrosoziologischer Perspektive Fragen der Institutionalisierung, Globalisierung, Mediamorphose, sozialen Identität, Macht und Hegemonie zentrale Rollen. Weitere Gegenstände dieses Lehr- und Forschungsbereiches sind:
- gesellschaftliche Legitimität und Outreach von Kulturorganisationen,
- Aufgaben von Kulturorganisationen angesichts gesellschaftlicher Krisen,
- Kultur und Nachhaltigkeit, d.h. die Bedeutung der Kultur für die sozial-ökologische Transformation der Gesellschaft,
- Diversitätsdiskurse zu Rassismus, Gender, Ethnien, Zielgruppenaffirmation und -öffnung in und durch Kulturorganisationen,
- Kulturpolitik, insbesondere Fragen der politischen Legitimierung der staatlichen Kulturfinanzierung und der Potenziale der Kultur und Künste in Krisenzeiten,
- Vergleich von und Wechselwirkungen zwischen Lebenswelten (life worlds) von Künstler*innen und Erfordernissen ihrer Kulturfelder (art worlds).
Dabei wird Wert auf die Vermittlung und Anwendung einer empirischen Kompetenz gelegt, d.h. auf die Einbettung empirischer Methoden in ein komplexes Theoriengewebe, auf deduktives und induktives Vorgehen, Anwendung von qualitativen und quantitativen Methoden der Datenerfassung und -auswertung.
- 2025
RCH Researchers Seminars.
Kuchar, R. (Opponent)
26.02.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
The Social Organization of Arts – A Theoretical Compendium (Introduction)
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
17.01.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
- 2024
Obsolenz der zeitgenössischen Oper? „Pink Mouse“ in der Aufmerksamkeitsökonomie der Gegenwart
Wuggenig, U. (Speaker) & von Xylander, C. (Speaker)
25.10.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Club, Szene und Stadt. Eine Langzeitbetrachtung von Selbstverständnissen und sozialen Umfeldern von Musikclubs
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
27.09.2024 → 28.09.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Die Beziehung von 'Club, Szene und Stadt'
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
27.09.2024 → 28.09.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Comparing Various Theories on the Social Organization of Arts
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker) & Zembylas, T. (Speaker)
30.08.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Alternative Perspectives On The Social Organization Of Art
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker) & Zembylas, T. (Speaker)
28.08.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
‘Cultural Ecosystem’ as tool for researching alternative cultures – potentials, limits and the question of ‘another black box’.
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
27.08.2024 → 30.08.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
DIY Culture vs. Cultural Ecosystem – The 'Official' Discovery of Alternative Practices in Cultural Policy?
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
10.07.2024 → 13.07.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Music Eco-Systems
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
10.07.2024 → 13.07.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
lunatic Festival
Kuchar, R. (Moderator)
01.06.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Transfer
Racism and Common Public Spaces in the Arts – A Case Study of Hamburg
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
30.05.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
What's it good for? : Functions of arts and culture for Hamburg's urban development
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
25.04.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Evaluierung des Deutschen Museums von Meisterwerken der Naturwissenschaft und Technik (DM) in München
Kirchberg, V. (Reviewer)
17.01.2024 → 19.01.2024Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
- 2023
Sigrún Lilja Einarsdottir
Kirchberg, V. (Host)
07.12.2023 → 11.12.2023Activity: Hosting a visitor › Hosting an academic visitor
Digital economy, social space and symbolic power. Correspondence and cluster analysis results of secondary analyses of Eurobarometer surveys
Wuggenig, U. (Speaker), von Xylander, C. (Speaker) & Tarnai, C. (Speaker)
27.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2023
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
20.09.2023 → 24.09.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Urban Music Studies Scholars Network
Barber-Kersovan, A. (Speaker), Kirchberg, V. (Speaker) & Lutze, T. (Speaker)
20.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Sabine Knierbein
Kirchberg, V. (Host)
07.08.2023 → 12.08.2023Activity: Hosting a visitor › Hosting an academic visitor
J. Pedro Lorente
Kirchberg, V. (Host)
21.07.2023 → 28.07.2023Activity: Hosting a visitor › Hosting an academic visitor
Imagining real utopias. An empirical exploration of organizing urban and rural projects for the good life
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker) & Blieffert, S. (Speaker)
07.07.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Leveraging ambiguity: How objects in laboratory experiments and music studio recordings co-generate novelty
Schüßler, E. (Speaker), Schiemer, B. (Speaker), Hoop, M. (Speaker) & Grabher, G. (Speaker)
07.07.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Imagining real utopia: An empirical exploration of organizing alternative projects
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker) & Blieffert, S. (Speaker)
28.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Cultural Ecosystem – promising approach for analyzing culture or ‘just another black box concept’?
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
21.06.2023 → 23.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
From Music Scenes to Ecosystems? Concepts, Challenges and Current Developments within Scene Perspectives
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
11.04.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
DIY, Alternative Cultures & Society (Journal)
Kuchar, R. (Editorial Board)
01.01.2023 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
An Elephant in the Room? - the Institutionalization of Artistic Research
Hoop, M. (Speaker)
2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
- 2022
Lokale (Pop-)Musikszenen als Ökosysteme und die kulturpolitischen Folgen von Covid-19
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
16.11.2022 → 18.11.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Classical music making in artistic precarity
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker), Barber-Kersovan, A. (Speaker) & Lutze, T. (Speaker)
15.09.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Covid and Live Music Venues in Germany
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
31.08.2022 → 02.09.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Impacts of Covid 19 on the Music Industries of the World: Special Edition Launch of the Journal of World Popular Music
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
31.08.2022 → 02.09.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Scene as Ecosystem, Scenes as Parts of Ecosystems or Scene versus Ecosystem? Some considerations about the compability of two conceptional approaches
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
15.07.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Eigenzeiten of Creativity – Temporal Work as a Coordination Challenge in Artistic and Scientific Project Ecologies
Hoop, M. (Speaker)
08.07.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Until COVID-19 do us apart: Music Scenes in Lockdown
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
23.05.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Panel Music Ecosystems: News from Research - Prerequisites - Perspectives - Challenges
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
21.04.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Challenging Music Scenes - from cool capitalism to urban micro-scenes
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
05.04.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Der mystisch-christliche Geist der Utopie bei Ernst Bloch
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
27.01.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
DIY, Alternative Cultures & Society (Journal)
Kuchar, R. (Editorial Board)
2022 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
Standort (Journal)
Kuchar, R. (Reviewer)
2022 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Transfer
- 2021
Artistic Utopian Spaces and the Promise of Urban Development
Niemann, K. (Speaker) & Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
02.09.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Critical Artistic Interventions in Urban Contexts – The Intrinsic Logic or Spirit of Cities and Its Influence on Critical Artists
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker) & Hoop, M. (Speaker)
11.03.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
’The Politics of Research and Knowledge in the Arts – The Institutionalization of Artistic Research’
Hoop, M. (Speaker)
09.03.2021 → 12.03.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
- 2020
Understanding Museums as Agents of Social Change – Questions about the Tool of Digitalization
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
24.11.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Museums and Theatres as Real Utopias
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
29.02.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Groove the City - 2020
Kirchberg, V. (Organiser), Gaupp, L. (Organiser), Barber-Kersovan, A. (Organiser) & Kuchar, R. (Organiser)
13.02.2020 → 15.02.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Perspectives of sustainable urban development - Conformities, discordances and recommendations
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker) & Kagan, S. (Speaker)
25.01.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
- 2019
Methodological Assemblage - Experiences from an Interdisciplinary Project on Artists and Cities
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
16.12.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
UpStage 2019
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
24.10.2019 → 25.10.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Bourdieu's political capital revisited – Artists' political activities in view of the field theory
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker) & Hoop, M. (Speaker)
21.08.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Power and Potential of Artistic and Cultural Organizations in a Network of Sustainable Urban Development
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker) & Peper, R. (Speaker)
25.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Kirchberg, V. (Chair)
01.04.2019 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Kirchberg, V. (Chair)
01.04.2019 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
01.04.2019 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Operation Ton #12
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
29.03.2019 → 30.03.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Artists, Politics, Cities: A New Typology of Artists
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker) & de-Shalit, A. (Speaker)
04.03.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Power and Potential of Artistic and Cultural Organizations in a Sustainable Urban Development – A Network Analysis
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker) & Peper, R. (Speaker)
11.01.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Beyond Diversity – The Politics of Global Music Cultures
Gaupp, L. (Speaker)
09.01.2019 → 12.01.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Stiftungsrat (Organisational unit)
Gaupp, L. (Deputy member)
01.01.2019 → 31.03.2019Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
Springer VS (Publisher)
Gaupp, L. (Editor)
2019 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of unfinished anthology/collection › Research
YOUNG (Journal)
Gaupp, L. (Reviewer)
2019 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
- 2018
The Emerging Urban Significance of Contemporary Chamber and New Music Orchestras
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker) & Seibel, L. (Speaker)
25.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
International Conference "Groove the City" 2018
Kirchberg, V. (Organiser), Kuchar, R. (Organiser), Gaupp, L. (Organiser), Barber-Kersovan, A. (Organiser) & Kuchar, R. (Chair)
23.11.2018 → 25.11.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
“Underground” Clubs as Urban Policies? Music Venues, the City and the Meaning of Symbolic Value.
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
23.11.2018 → 25.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Urban Music Festivals and Politics of Diversity
Gaupp, L. (Speaker)
23.11.2018 → 25.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Critical Artists and Urban Development – A Typology of Political Activism in the Arts
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker) & Wedler, P. (Speaker)
22.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Künste und Mächte - Politiken in und durch die Künste
Kirchberg, V. (Organiser), Gaupp, L. (Organiser) & Barber-Kersovan, A. (Organiser)
22.11.2018 → 23.11.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Standardization of Diversity in ‚Global Music’ between Intrinsic Musical Censorship and Deviant Innovations
Gaupp, L. (Speaker)
22.11.2018 → 23.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Frauen und Gleichstellung (Organisational unit)
Gaupp, L. (Full member)
01.11.2018 → 31.03.2019Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
Senat (Organisational unit)
Gaupp, L. (Deputy member)
01.11.2018 → 31.03.2019Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Wie sich heute noch die Frage des Museumspublikums aus einer sozialkritischen Sicht stellt
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
19.10.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
4. Jahrestagung der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft - KWG 2018
Gaupp, L. (Organiser)
11.10.2018 → 13.10.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Standardisierung von Diversität in ‚globaler Musik’ zwischen intrinsischer Musikzensur und devianten Neuerungen
Gaupp, L. (Speaker)
04.10.2018 → 06.10.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Exploring Urban Music Studies (Roundtable)
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker), Gaupp, L. (Speaker), Kuchar, R. (Speaker) & Barber-Kersovan, A. (Speaker)
07.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Making Urban Spaces of Possibilities: Cultural Infrastructures and the Politics Of Cooperation In Real-Utopian Place-Making (Workshop)
Kirchberg, V. (Panel participant), Kagan, S. (Panel participant), Falzon, M.-A. (Panel participant) & Bingham-Hall, J. (Panel participant)
06.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Never Take It For Granted – Arts and Culture in the City Across Times and Places
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
05.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Underground Clubs in Transition. Scene based Music Venues and Spatial Strategies in Hamburg St. Pauli.
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
04.09.2018 → 07.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Critical Artists and Urban Development - Theoretical Foundations and Proposed Explanations
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker) & Wedler, P. (Speaker)
19.07.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Placemaking today: integrating place-oriented thinking into cultural policy frameworks
Kirchberg, V. (Panel participant), Silver, D. (presenter), Hughes, J. (Panel participant), Mackinnon, E. (Panel participant), Raza, A. (Panel participant) & Kletkotko, M. (Panel participant)
17.07.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Changing Implicitness – Functions of Arts and Culture in Urban Planning and Policies across Times and Places
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
16.07.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
’It’s irie!’ A transcultural approach to diversity at urban ‚global music’ festivals
Gaupp, L. (Speaker)
16.07.2018 → 22.07.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Changing identities of DIY based music venues? Clubs between scene - traditionalism, assimilation and ‘subcultural institutionalization’
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
04.07.2018 → 07.07.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Standardizing diversity in ‘global music’
Gaupp, L. (Speaker)
14.06.2018 → 15.06.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Bifröst University, Reykjavik & Bifröst, Iceland
Kirchberg, V. (Visiting researcher)
05.05.2018 → 01.07.2018Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
Linden Fiction Revisited - Utopie als kreativer Möglichkeitsraum 2018
Finkeldei, U. (Speaker), Grigoleit, A. (Speaker), Holz, V. (Speaker), Laube, C. (Speaker) & Kirchberg, V. (Participant)
23.04.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Stadt als Möglichkeitsraum - Ist Hannover ein Platz für Reale Utopien? 2018
Kirchberg, V. (Organiser), Barthel, J. (Moderator) & Alexander, C. (Organiser)
18.04.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
DIY music venues between Assimilation, Scene-Traditionalism, and ‘Subcultural Institutionalization’
Kuchar, R. (Speaker)
07.03.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Global Popular Music
Gaupp, L. (Speaker)
27.02.2018 → 01.03.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Seminar des internationalen Forschungsnetzwerks „Brokering Intercultural Exchange: Interrogating the Role of Arts and Cultural Management“ 2018
Gaupp, L. (Speaker)
27.02.2018 → 01.03.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Hannovers Möglichkeitsräume - Erster Abschlussworkshop des SaM-Projektes - 2018
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker), Hauerwaas, A. (Speaker), Kagan, S. (Speaker) & Kostrzewa, F. (Organiser)
13.02.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Arts Management Student Conference anschließend an die 11. Jahrestagung des Fachverbands Kulturmanagement - 2018
Gaupp, L. (Organiser)
20.01.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
Managing Utopia in the Arts – Cultural Visions of Sustainable and Other Visionary Lifestyles
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
20.01.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Cultural Leadership: Perspektiven und Herausforderungen
Kirchberg, V. (Panel participant), Csorba, R. (Panel participant), Gögge, R. (Panel participant), Heine, T. (Panel participant), Hoquél, F. (Panel participant), Kölle, N. (Panel participant) & Neundlinger, B. (Panel participant)
18.01.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Conference of the Association for Arts Management on Cultural Leadership & Innovation - CfP 2018
Gaupp, L. (Speaker)
17.01.2018 → 20.01.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
4th Keep it Simple Make it Fast! - KISMIF 2018
Kuchar, R. (Organiser)
01.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
- 2017
Kulturorganisation und -kommunikation
Gaupp, L. (Lecturer)
30.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Popular Music and its Thorie
Gaupp, L. (Speaker)
17.11.2017 → 19.11.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
3. Jahrestagung der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft 2017
Gaupp, L. (Organiser)
16.11.2017 → 18.11.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Intercultural Relations in Practice 2017
Gaupp, L. (Speaker)
16.11.2017 → 17.11.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
4th Keep it Simple Make it Fast! - KISMIF 2018
Kuchar, R. (Organiser)
01.11.2017 → …Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research