Volker Kirchberg
Prof. Dr.
- Cultural Distribution/Cultural Organization
- Sociology
Research areas
- Guest lectures
Creative Cities. Die Kulturalisierung der Stadt: Kommentar zu Andreas Reckwitz
Volker Kirchberg (Panel participant)
18.11.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Cultivating Commons versus Consuming Spaces: The Spatial Economy of Artists’ Quarters
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
16.08.2012Activity: 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
Das Publikum als zentraler Anker der Identität und Legitimität des Museums
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
29.05.2015Activity: 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
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
eMotion: A transdisciplinary study of visitor experiences at a modern art exhibition
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
26.10.2012Activity: 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
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
eMotion - the psychographic museum: analyzing expectations and experiences in an arts exhibition
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
02.09.2010Activity: 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
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
Governing Baltimore by Music Scenes?: Insights from Governance and Governmentality Studies
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
01.06.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Governing Communities through Music?: Governmentality Insights and Illustrations from Baltimore
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
08.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › 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
Kirchenmusik und die Botschaft der Nachhaltigkeit
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
10.12.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › 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
Legitimizing museums as an agent of social change?
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
03.10.2016 → 05.10.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › 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
Local arts organization and network analysis: A case study in Germany
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
20.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › 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
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
Museumserfahrungen: Das eMotion-Projekt durch die Perspektive der Evaluation
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
16.01.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › 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
On the structuration of museums: Visitors' influences and interferences
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
14.05.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Public and private support of arts and culture
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
25.02.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › 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
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
Schein statt Sein: Wie Fantasy die Realität der Stadtentwicklung übernimmt (ein Essay)
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
14.02.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Social Inequality from the viewpoint of the sociology of the arts
Volker Kirchberg (Panel participant)
22.04.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Soziale Netzwerkanalyse von Kunst und Kultur in Lüneburg
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
18.07.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
The Functions of Museums in the Creative City
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
11.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The survey of surveys: a meta-analysis of arts participation surveys
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
01.09.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Überlegungen zur Kulturentwicklungsplanung für Lüneburg: Einführungsvortrag zum Tagesordnungspunkt "Kulturentwicklungskonzept"
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
11.04.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Unsustainable Urban Development and the Arts in Hamburg
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
16.04.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Using the arts as a tool for governing postindustrial cities: Music City Hamburg?! Musikalische Annäherungen an die Kreative Stadt
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
22.10.2010 → 24.10.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Zukunft der Museen – Museen der Zukunft?
Volker Kirchberg (Panel participant)
10.11.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Zur Bedeutung von Städtepartnerschaften als globale Netzwerke: Ein Diskussionsbeitrag
Volker Kirchberg (Lecturer)
20.07.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
- Academic councils, panels and committees
Universita Bocconi di Milano (External organisation)
Volker Kirchberg (Member)
01.01.2011 → 31.12.2013Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
- Academic networks or partnerships
American Sociological Association (External organisation)
Volker Kirchberg (Member)
1993 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (External organisation)
Volker Kirchberg (Member)
1992 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › 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
Fachverband für Kulturmanagementforschung e.V. (External organisation)
Volker Kirchberg (Chair)
16.01.2016 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
International Council of Museums (External organisation)
Volker Kirchberg (Member)
1998 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
IULM University (External organisation)
Volker Kirchberg (Coordinator)
08.02.2012 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)
Volker Kirchberg (Member)
15.01.2016 → 24.01.2016Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Education
Wayne State University Detroit (External organisation)
Volker Kirchberg (Member)
06.05.2016 → 12.06.2016Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Education
- Learned societies and special interest organisations
Association of Cultural Economics International (ACEI) (External organisation)
Volker Kirchberg (Member)
2011 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Fachverband für Kulturmanagementforschung e.V. (External organisation)
Volker Kirchberg (Full member)
2008 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
- Leuphana academic councils and committees
Graduate School (Organisational unit)
Volker Kirchberg (Chair)
05.2012 → 09.2017Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
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
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)
Volker Kirchberg (Member)
05.2011 → 01.2014Activity: 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)
01.10.2010 → 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
- Visiting an external academic institution
Bifröst University In Iceland
Volker Kirchberg (Visiting researcher)
23.05.2016 → 27.05.2016Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Education
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
New York University
Volker Kirchberg (Visiting researcher)
10.05.2010 → 10.09.2010Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
- Hosting an academic visitor
J. Pedro Lorente
Volker Kirchberg (Host)
21.07.2023 → 28.07.2023Activity: Hosting a visitor › Hosting an academic visitor
Sabine Knierbein
Volker Kirchberg (Host)
07.08.2023 → 12.08.2023Activity: Hosting a visitor › Hosting an academic visitor
Sigrún Lilja Einarsdottir
Volker Kirchberg (Host)
07.12.2023 → 11.12.2023Activity: Hosting a visitor › Hosting an academic visitor
- Academic Consultant
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
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
- Peer review of project proposals
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
- Conference Presentations
Artistic Utopian Spaces and the Promise of Urban Development
Kerstin Niemann (Speaker) & Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
02.09.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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 - Theoretical Foundations and Proposed Explanations
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker) & Patricia Wedler (Speaker)
19.07.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
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
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
Eras of cultural policy in the Federal Republic of Germany
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
04.07.1996Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › 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
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
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)
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
Museums and Theatres as Real Utopias
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
29.02.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Museums, merchandising, and nonprofit commercialization
Volker Kirchberg (Speaker)
2001Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
