Volker Kirchberg
Prof. Dr.
- Cultural Distribution/Cultural Organization
- Sociology
Research areas
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
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
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
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
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
International Council of Museums (External organisation)
Volker Kirchberg (Member)
1998 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › 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
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
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
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 Week: Fall International Talks - IULM 2011
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
09.11.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › 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
IULM University (External organisation)
Volker Kirchberg (Coordinator)
08.02.2012 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Jahrestagung des Bundesverbandes Museumspädagogik - Crossover 2006
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
12.10.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Jahrestagung des Deutschen Museumsbundes 2011
Volker Kirchberg (Keynote speaker)
09.05.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
J. Pedro Lorente
Volker Kirchberg (Host)
21.07.2023 → 28.07.2023Activity: Hosting a visitor › Hosting an academic visitor
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
Kirchenmusik und die Botschaft der Nachhaltigkeit
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
10.12.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Konferenz des ESA Research Network for the Sociology of the Arts - 2007
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
31.03.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Konferenz "Lebensstile in Städten" 1993
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
12.05.1993 → 14.05.1993Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Konferenz zum Kultur-Sponsoring in den neuen Bundesländern, Polen und der CSFR 1992
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
10.09.1992Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Kreativität, Kultur und Stadtentwicklung - stadtsoziologische Deutungen der Wechselbeziehungen. 2008
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
20.02.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Kulturkonferenz der Ständigen Kulturpolitischen Konferenz und der Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Kultur Berlin der Partei Die Linke 2011
Volker Kirchberg (Keynote speaker)
02.09.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Kulturschlösser oder Freigeister?: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Teilhabe von Bürgern an Kulturentwicklungsprozessen in Hamburg
Volker Kirchberg (Panel participant)
11.06.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Künste und Mächte - Politiken in und durch die Künste
Volker Kirchberg (Organiser), Lisa Gaupp (Organiser) & Alenka Barber-Kersovan (Organiser)
22.11.2018 → 23.11.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Legitimizing museums as an agent of social change?
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
03.10.2016 → 05.10.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)
Volker Kirchberg (Member)
05.2011 → 01.2014Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)
Volker Kirchberg (Member)
15.01.2016 → 24.01.2016Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Education
Lifestyles: Giving Behavior and Implications for Fundraising
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
12.03.2001Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Lifestyles or cumulative consumption as explaining models for cultural consumption - an empirical test.
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
03.11.1998Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Linden Fiction Revisited - Utopie als kreativer Möglichkeitsraum 2018
Ute Finkeldei (Speaker), Annette Grigoleit (Speaker), Verena Holz (Speaker), Charlotte Laube (Speaker) & Volker Kirchberg (Participant)
23.04.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Local arts organization and network analysis: A case study in Germany
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
20.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
MAiA - Music and Arts in Action (Journal)
Volker Kirchberg (Editorial Board)
2011 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Making Urban Spaces of Possibilities: Cultural Infrastructures and the Politics Of Cooperation In Real-Utopian Place-Making (Workshop)
Volker Kirchberg (Panel participant), Sacha Kagan (Panel participant), Mark-Anthony Falzon (Panel participant) & John Bingham-Hall (Panel participant)
06.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Managing Utopia: Artistic visions of sustainable lifestyles and their realization
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
08.09.2016 → 10.09.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Managing Utopia - Artistic Visions of Sustainable Lifestyles and Their Realization
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
26.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Managing Utopia in the Arts – Cultural Visions of Sustainable and Other Visionary Lifestyles
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
20.01.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Methodological Assemblage - Experiences from an Interdisciplinary Project on Artists and Cities
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
16.12.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Mixed-Methods der Nichtbesucher-Forschung: Zur Planung einer repräsentativen Bevölkerungsbefragung in Deutschland
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
13.01.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Museen als Vorreiter des gesellschaftlichen Wandels
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
07.12.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Museen in der Stadt: Stadtmuseen - eine Gegenüberstellung
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
24.04.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Museum and Society (Journal)
Volker Kirchberg (Editorial Board)
2006 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Museums and Theatres as Real Utopias
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
29.02.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Museumserfahrungen: Das eMotion-Projekt durch die Perspektive der Evaluation
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
16.01.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Museums, merchandising, and nonprofit commercialization
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
2001Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Musik und die Kulturen der Nachhaltigkeit
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
29.07.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Navigating Art Space: A short overview about results from the eMotion study
Volker Kirchberg (Panel participant)
26.10.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Networks of Local Arts Organization: A Case Study in Germany
Volker Kirchberg (Oral presentation)
25.05.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Never Take It For Granted – Arts and Culture in the City Across Times and Places
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
05.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
New York University
Volker Kirchberg (Visiting researcher)
10.05.2010 → 10.09.2010Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
Online-Vortrag 1998
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
06.10.1998Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
On the structuration of museums: Visitors' influences and interferences
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
14.05.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Perspectives of sustainable urban development - Conformities, discordances and recommendations
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker) & Sacha Kagan (Speaker)
25.01.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Placemaking today: integrating place-oriented thinking into cultural policy frameworks
Volker Kirchberg (Panel participant), Dan Silver (presenter), Jennifer Hughes (Panel participant), Elizabeth Mackinnon (Panel participant), Asad Raza (Panel participant) & Marta Kletkotko (Panel participant)
17.07.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Power and Potential of Artistic and Cultural Organizations in a Network of Sustainable Urban Development
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker) & Robert Peper (Speaker)
25.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Power and Potential of Artistic and Cultural Organizations in a Sustainable Urban Development – A Network Analysis
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker) & Robert Peper (Speaker)
11.01.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Preferences and policy: consuming art and culture in Hamburg and Baltimore.
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
03.10.1990Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Public and private support of arts and culture
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
25.02.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Public Galleries Association of Victoria 1998
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
30.10.1998Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Publikum. Rezeption: Kommentar zur Publikumsstudie der österreichischen Literaturhäuser
Volker Kirchberg (Panel participant)
30.09.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
(Re)Constructing a Sociology Of the Arts In the 21th Century: Problems and Perspectives - Inserting "Space" In The Sociology Of The Arts
Volker Kirchberg (Panel participant)
28.02.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Repository of Memories or Catalyst of Illumination? - 2003
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
2003Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Rethinking the Museum Experience: Museum as Journey Through the Senses: eMotion - A transdisciplinary study of visitor experiences at a modern art exhibition
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
26.10.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Richard A. Peterson and the Sociology of the Arts
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
01.09.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Ringvorlesung "Fortschritt" - Paradigmen der Kulturwissenschaften, Leuphana Universität
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
15.11.2011Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Sabine Knierbein
Volker Kirchberg (Host)
07.08.2023 → 12.08.2023Activity: Hosting a visitor › Hosting an academic visitor
Schein statt Sein: Wie Fantasy die Realität der Stadtentwicklung übernimmt (ein Essay)
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
14.02.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Volker Kirchberg (Member)
01.10.2010 → 01.10.2012Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Volker Kirchberg (Chair)
01.10.2010 → 01.10.2012Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Volker Kirchberg (Chair)
01.04.2010 → 01.10.2012Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Volker Kirchberg (Member)
01.10.2010 → 01.10.2012Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Volker Kirchberg (Chair)
01.04.2019 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Volker Kirchberg (Chair)
01.04.2019 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
01.04.2019 → …Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Seminar on City Marketing and Planning 1992
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
12.11.1992 → 13.11.1992Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Sigrún Lilja Einarsdottir
Volker Kirchberg (Host)
07.12.2023 → 11.12.2023Activity: Hosting a visitor › Hosting an academic visitor
Sitzung des Hamburger Museumsverbandes - 2006
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
18.01.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Social Inequality from the viewpoint of the sociology of the arts
Volker Kirchberg (Panel participant)
22.04.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Sociologia urbana e rurale (Journal)
Volker Kirchberg (Editorial Board)
2013 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Soziale Netzwerkanalyse von Kunst und Kultur in Lüneburg
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
18.07.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Stadt als Möglichkeitsraum - Ist Hannover ein Platz für Reale Utopien? 2018
Volker Kirchberg (Organiser), Julia Barthel (Moderator) & Constantin Alexander (Organiser)
18.04.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Stadt als Möglichkeitsraum - Statuspräsentation des Projektes
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
23.01.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Stadtentwicklung durch Kultur - 2007
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
16.11.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Stellungnahme zum Antrag der CDU- und FDP-Fraktionen Drs. 16/4321 „Senioren und Kultur“ vom 18.11.2011: Bewertung des Entschließungsantrags an den Landtag des Landes Niedersachsen
Volker Kirchberg (Reviewer)
04.03.2012Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Transfer
Surveying Concepts of "Creative City", "Creative Industries" and Policies of Arts and Planning on Baltimore, MD
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
09.07.2006 → 11.07.2006Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Symposium Kulturvermittlung 2005
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
12.02.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Symposium "Zukunftskonzert: Musikvermittlung und Aufführungskultur" - 2008
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
24.04.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung des Centers for Global Change and Governance an der Rutgers University
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
25.04.2003Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung "Kulturbetriebsforschung: Ansätze und Methoden" - 2005
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
25.11.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung "Vergleichen lohnt sich" - Benchmarking als effektives Instrument des Museumsmanagements - 2001
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
21.06.2001 → 22.06.2001Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The Arts, Diversity and Creative Hubs – Interactions in Global Art Worlds
Lisa Gaupp (Speaker) & Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
12.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Consumption of Culture - The Culture of Consumption - ICARE 2009
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
17.04.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The Emerging Urban Significance of Contemporary Chamber and New Music Orchestras
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker) & Leonie Seibel (Speaker)
25.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Functions of Museums in the Creative City
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
11.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society (Journal)
Volker Kirchberg (Editorial Board)
2006 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
The new public interest in museums - supply and demand side explanations for an increasing awareness of museums 1998
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
11.11.1998Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
The survey of surveys: a meta-analysis of arts participation surveys
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
01.09.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The Survey of Surveys: A meta-analysis of arts-participation surveys.
Robin Kuchar (Speaker) & Volker Kirchberg (Coauthor)
01.09.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Sustainability of the Arts in Urban Social Movements Case Studies in Hamburg, Germany
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
07.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research