Volker Kirchberg
Prof. Dr.
- Cultural Distribution/Cultural Organization
- Sociology
Research areas
Jury-Mitglied: Vergabe des Hanns-Lilje-Stiftungspreises Freiheit und Verantwortung 2014: Die bildende Kraft von Kunst und Kultur
Volker Kirchberg (Reviewer)
28.01.2015Activity: Other expert activities › Peer review of project proposals › Research
J. Pedro Lorente
Volker Kirchberg (Host)
21.07.2023 → 28.07.2023Activity: Hosting a visitor › Hosting an academic visitor
Jahrestagung des Deutschen Museumsbundes 2011
Volker Kirchberg (Keynote speaker)
09.05.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Jahrestagung des Bundesverbandes Museumspädagogik - Crossover 2006
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
12.10.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
IULM University (External organisation)
Volker Kirchberg (Coordinator)
08.02.2012 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
ISA Sociology of Art and Culture Conference 2005
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
29.03.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
International Week: Fall International Talks - IULM 2011
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
09.11.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
International Symposium "Museums Matter: A Tribute to Stephen Weil" - 2006
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
13.09.2006 → 15.09.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
International Master's Degree Programme in Museology of the Reinwardt Academy, Amsterdam 2007
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
26.11.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Internationales Symposium des Hauses der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Bonn "Museen und ihre Besucher. Herausforderungen in der Zukunft" 1995
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
21.11.1995 → 24.11.1995Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Internationales Symposium "Creative Cluster and Creative Milieu: From A Perspective of International Comparison" - 2006
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
17.03.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
International Council of Museums (External organisation)
Volker Kirchberg (Member)
1998 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
International Conference "Groove the City" 2018
Volker Kirchberg (Organiser), Robin Kuchar (Organiser), Lisa Gaupp (Organiser), Alenka Barber-Kersovan (Organiser) & Robin Kuchar (Chair)
23.11.2018 → 25.11.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organization (Organisational unit)
Volker Kirchberg (Chair)
17.01.2008 → 31.12.2011Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organization (Organisational unit)
Volker Kirchberg (Chair)
01.04.2015 → 30.09.2019Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
I Make ART - Is This ART?: Nedko Solakov's interventions at the St. Gallen Museum art exhibition 11:1 (+3)
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
07.10.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Imagining real utopias. An empirical exploration of organizing urban and rural projects for the good life
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker) & Svea Blieffert (Speaker)
07.07.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Imagining real utopia: An empirical exploration of organizing alternative projects
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker) & Svea Blieffert (Speaker)
28.06.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
III. Museums-management-Tagung zum Thema Museumsziele
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
24.11.1998Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Hannovers Möglichkeitsräume - Erster Abschlussworkshop des SaM-Projektes - 2018
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker), Antoniya Hauerwaas (Speaker), Sacha Kagan (Speaker) & Felix Kostrzewa (Organiser)
13.02.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Groove the City - 2020
Volker Kirchberg (Organiser), Lisa Gaupp (Organiser), Alenka Barber-Kersovan (Organiser) & Robin Kuchar (Organiser)
13.02.2020 → 15.02.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Graduate School (Organisational unit)
Volker Kirchberg (Chair)
05.2012 → 09.2017Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Governing Communities through Music?: Governmentality Insights and Illustrations from Baltimore
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
08.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Governing Baltimore by Music Scenes?: Insights from Governance and Governmentality Studies
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
01.06.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
gemeinsame Konferenz zur Kunstsoziologie der International Sociological Association und der European Sociological Association 2003
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
15.04.2003Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Frühjahrstagung der Sektion "Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie" 1996
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
28.03.1996 → 30.03.1996Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Fortbildungstagung des Sächsischen Museumsbundes 2011
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
07.11.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Fachverband für Kulturmanagementforschung e.V. (External organisation)
Volker Kirchberg (Full member)
2008 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Fachverband für Kulturmanagementforschung e.V. (External organisation)
Volker Kirchberg (Chair)
16.01.2016 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Fachtagung „Musik prospektiv“ der ON - Neue Musik Köln 2011
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
11.02.2011 → 12.02.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Exploring Urban Music Studies (Roundtable)
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker), Lisa Gaupp (Speaker), Robin Kuchar (Speaker) & Alenka Barber-Kersovan (Speaker)
07.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Exploring strengths and weaknesses of cultural production through social network analysis: A case study in small town Germany
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
23.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Experiencing Exhibitions: ‘eMotions’ As an Interdisciplinary Study of Measuring and Analysing Visitor Experiences in Museums
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
16.03.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Evaluierung des Deutschen Museums von Meisterwerken der Naturwissenschaft und Technik (DM) in München
Volker Kirchberg (Reviewer)
17.01.2024 → 19.01.2024Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
European Sociological Association (ESA) (External organisation)
Volker Kirchberg (Chair)
2005 → 2007Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
European Sociological Association (ESA) (External organisation)
Volker Kirchberg (Executive member)
2001 → 2011Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
ESF SCH/SCSS Exploratory Workshop - 2009
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
29.05.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
ESF Exploratory Workshop on Re-inventions of Early-European Performing Arts and the Creative City, Civic Regeneration and Cultural Tourism - REPACC 2012
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
11.09.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Eras of cultural policy in the Federal Republic of Germany
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
04.07.1996Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Entrance fees as a subjective barrier to visiting museums - results from a representative survey in Germany
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
08.05.1996 → 11.05.1996Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
eMotion - the psychographic museum: analyzing expectations and experiences in an arts exhibition
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
02.09.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Emotions as Rationale in Urban Artist Districts and Artist Housing Complexes: Examples from Phoenix AZ, Baltimore MD, and Hamburg GER
Volker Kirchberg (Oral presentation)
14.07.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Emotions as Causes and Effects of Creative Urban Artist Areas
Volker Kirchberg (Oral presentation)
23.07.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
eMotion: A transdisciplinary study of visitor experiences at a modern art exhibition
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
26.10.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Die Vermessung der Schnittfläche: Kunst und Stadtentwicklung im Vergleich von Hamburg und Baltimore
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
21.04.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Die Vermessung der Kunstwirkung auf die Nachhaltigkeit: Methodische Anmerkungen
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
08.11.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (External organisation)
Volker Kirchberg (Member)
1992 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Der mystisch-christliche Geist der Utopie bei Ernst Bloch
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
27.01.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
Das Publikum als zentraler Anker der Identität und Legitimität des Museums
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
29.05.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Das liebe Geld und die Kultur: Kooperation und Konkurrenz in der Hanse- und Kulturstadt Lüneburg
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
14.07.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Cultural Leadership: Perspektiven und Herausforderungen
Volker Kirchberg (Panel participant), Réka Csorba (Panel participant), René Gögge (Panel participant), Tina Heine (Panel participant), Falk Hoquél (Panel participant), Norbert Kölle (Panel participant) & Barbara Neundlinger (Panel participant)
18.01.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Cultivating Commons versus Consuming Spaces: The Spatial Economy of Artists’ Quarters
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
16.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Critical Artists and Urban Development - Theoretical Foundations and Proposed Explanations
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker) & Patricia Wedler (Speaker)
19.07.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Critical Artists and Urban Development in Hanover, Hamburg, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv - Theoretical and Field Access, Exploratory Interviews
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker), Milena Seidl (Speaker) & Tomma Groth (Speaker)
06.03.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Critical Artists and Urban Development – A Typology of Political Activism in the Arts
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker) & Patricia Wedler (Speaker)
22.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Critical Art(ist)s and Urban Development - A Collaborative Study Comparing German and Israeli Cities
Milena Seidl (Speaker), Tomma Groth (Speaker), Patricia Wedler (Speaker), Volker Kirchberg (Speaker), Avner de-Shalit (Speaker), Merav Kadar (Speaker) & Nir Barak (Speaker)
13.05.2017Activity: 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
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker) & Marie Hoop (Speaker)
11.03.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Creative Cities. Die Kulturalisierung der Stadt: Kommentar zu Andreas Reckwitz
Volker Kirchberg (Panel participant)
18.11.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Contingencies Of Art Policy: Comparing Probabilistic and Deterministic Cultural Planning Modes in Baltimore and Hamburg
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
28.02.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Contingencies of Art Policy: Comparing Probabilistic and Deterministic Cultural Planning Modes in Baltimore and Hamburg
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
17.01.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Conference on Social Theory, Politics and the Arts - STPA 2001
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
19.10.2001Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Conference of the European Sociological Association - ESA 2007
Volker Kirchberg (Organiser) & Sacha Kagan (Chair)
28.03.2007 → 01.04.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Conference European Sociological Association - ESA 2007
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
03.09.2007 → 06.09.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Classical music making in artistic precarity
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker), Alenka Barber-Kersovan (Speaker) & Tobias Lutze (Speaker)
15.09.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
City, Culture, and Society (Journal)
Volker Kirchberg (Editor)
09.2013Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
City as Space of Possibility – Alternative and Artistic Initiatives Towards Urban Sustainability
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker) & Sacha Kagan (Speaker)
31.08.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Changing Implicitness – Functions of Arts and Culture in Urban Planning and Policies across Times and Places
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
16.07.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Bourdieu's political capital revisited – Artists' political activities in view of the field theory
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker) & Marie Hoop (Speaker)
21.08.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Bifröst University, Reykjavik & Bifröst, Iceland
Volker Kirchberg (Visiting researcher)
05.05.2018 → 01.07.2018Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
Bifröst University In Iceland
Volker Kirchberg (Visiting researcher)
23.05.2016 → 27.05.2016Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Education
Besucherforschung als Antwort auf die gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen von Museen
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
24.10.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Association of Cultural Economics International (ACEI) (External organisation)
Volker Kirchberg (Member)
2011 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Arts Management: Sociological Inquiries 2009
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
03.09.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Arts and entertainment districts - creative districts as urban development tools?: The example of Baltimore
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
08.10.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Arts and culture as urban development tool: a comparative study in Baltimore and Hamburg
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
26.08.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Artists, Politics, Cities: A New Typology of Artists
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker) & Avner de-Shalit (Speaker)
04.03.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Artists in Cities of Distress: Baltimore and Detroit
Volker Kirchberg (Organiser)
29.06.2016 → 21.07.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Artists in Cities of Distress: Baltimore and Detroit
Volker Kirchberg (Organiser)
01.03.2016 → 14.03.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Artistic Utopian Spaces and the Promise of Urban Development
Kerstin Niemann (Speaker) & Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
02.09.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Art and Culture as an Urban Development Tool: A Diachronic Case Study
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
19.06.2016 → 21.06.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
ARNOVA Konferenz 2002
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
16.11.2002Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
A preliminary typology of contemporary arts managers' value categories
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
01.05.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Antrittvorlesung an der Universität Lüneburg
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
10.06.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society in Baltimore 2009
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
19.03.2009 → 22.03.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
American Sociological Association’s 111th Annual Meeting
Volker Kirchberg (Participant)
19.08.2016 → 24.08.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
American Sociological Association (External organisation)
Volker Kirchberg (Member)
1993 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
ACME and ASK Seminar Series at the Bocconi Università 2011
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
20.05.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
98. Kongress der American Sociological Association (Kultursoziologie-Sektion) 2003
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
17.08.2003Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
97. Kongress der American Sociological Association (Space and Place Network Panel) 2002
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
16.08.2002 → 19.08.2002Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
94. Kongress der American Association of Museums ("International Marketplace of Ideas") 1999
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
26.04.1999Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
92. American Sociological Association-Kongress 1997
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
12.08.1997Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
8. International Conference on Cultural Economics 1994
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
24.08.1994 → 26.08.1994Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
7th Mid-Term Conference of the European Sociological Association - Sociology of the Arts Research Network 2012
Volker Kirchberg (Organiser)
08.09.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
7th Conference of the European Sociological Association - ESA 2005
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
09.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
7. International Conference on Cultural Economics 1992
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
22.10.1992 → 24.10.1992Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
6. Konferenz des European Sociological Association Kunstsoziologie Netzwerkes 2004
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
04.11.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
6. Konferenz des European Sociological Association Kunstsoziologie Netzwerkes 2004
Volker Kirchberg (Organiser)
04.11.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
4. Jahrestagung Fachverband für Kulturmanagement 2011
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
13.01.2011 → 15.01.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
4. Arts and Culture Management International Conference - AIMAC 1997
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
01.07.1997Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
3. Arbeitstagung des Fachverband für Kulturmanagement - 2009
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
17.01.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
