Volker Kirchberg
Prof. Dr.
- Cultural Distribution/Cultural Organization
- Sociology
Research areas
- 2025
The Social Organization of Arts — Reflections on the Sociology of Art Theory
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker) & Fang, H. (Lecturer)
13.05.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The Social Organization of Arts – A Theoretical Compendium (Introduction)
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
17.01.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
- 2024
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
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
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
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
- 2022
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
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
- 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
- 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
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
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
- 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
- 2017
What is Urban Music Studies (UMS), and what could it be?
Kirchberg, V. (Organiser), Kuchar, R. (Organiser), Gaupp, L. (Organiser) & Barber-Kersovan, A. (Organiser)
20.10.2017 → 21.10.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
City as Space of Possibility – Alternative and Artistic Initiatives Towards Urban Sustainability
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker) & Kagan, S. (Speaker)
31.08.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Vera Zolberg: Memory and the Arts
Kirchberg, V. (Panel participant), Marontate, J. (Panel participant), Kattago, S. (Panel participant) & Trajtenberg, G. (Panel participant)
30.08.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Managing Utopia - Artistic Visions of Sustainable Lifestyles and Their Realization
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
26.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Critical Art(ist)s and Urban Development - A Collaborative Study Comparing German and Israeli Cities
Seidl, M. (Speaker), Groth, T. (Speaker), Wedler, P. (Speaker), Kirchberg, V. (Speaker), de-Shalit, A. (Speaker), Kadar, M. (Speaker) & Barak, N. (Speaker)
13.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Arts, Diversity and Creative Hubs – Interactions in Global Art Worlds
Gaupp, L. (Speaker) & Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
12.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Critical Artists and Urban Development in Hanover, Hamburg, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv - Theoretical and Field Access, Exploratory Interviews
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker), Seidl, M. (Speaker) & Groth, T. (Speaker)
06.03.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Stadt als Möglichkeitsraum - Statuspräsentation des Projektes
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
23.01.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
- 2016
Legitimizing museums as an agent of social change?
Kirchberg, V. (Lecturer)
03.10.2016 → 05.10.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Publikum. Rezeption: Kommentar zur Publikumsstudie der österreichischen Literaturhäuser
Kirchberg, V. (Panel participant)
30.09.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Managing Utopia: Artistic visions of sustainable lifestyles and their realization
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
08.09.2016 → 10.09.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
American Sociological Association’s 111th Annual Meeting
Kirchberg, V. (Participant)
19.08.2016 → 24.08.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Zur Bedeutung von Städtepartnerschaften als globale Netzwerke: Ein Diskussionsbeitrag
Kirchberg, V. (Lecturer)
20.07.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Artists in Cities of Distress: Baltimore and Detroit
Kirchberg, V. (Organiser)
29.06.2016 → 21.07.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Art and Culture as an Urban Development Tool: A Diachronic Case Study
Kirchberg, V. (Lecturer)
19.06.2016 → 21.06.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Bifröst University In Iceland
Kirchberg, V. (Visiting researcher)
23.05.2016 → 27.05.2016Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Education
Wayne State University Detroit (External organisation)
Kirchberg, V. (Member)
06.05.2016 → 12.06.2016Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Education
Social Inequality from the viewpoint of the sociology of the arts
Kirchberg, V. (Panel participant)
22.04.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Artists in Cities of Distress: Baltimore and Detroit
Kirchberg, V. (Organiser)
01.03.2016 → 14.03.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Fachverband für Kulturmanagementforschung e.V. (External organisation)
Kirchberg, V. (Chair)
16.01.2016 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Museumserfahrungen: Das eMotion-Projekt durch die Perspektive der Evaluation
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
16.01.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)
Kirchberg, V. (Member)
15.01.2016 → 24.01.2016Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Education
- 2015
Kirchenmusik und die Botschaft der Nachhaltigkeit
Kirchberg, V. (Lecturer)
10.12.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Museen als Vorreiter des gesellschaftlichen Wandels
Kirchberg, V. (Lecturer)
07.12.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
12th Conference of the European Sociological Association - ESA 2015
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
26.08.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Das liebe Geld und die Kultur: Kooperation und Konkurrenz in der Hanse- und Kulturstadt Lüneburg
Kirchberg, V. (Lecturer)
14.07.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Das Publikum als zentraler Anker der Identität und Legitimität des Museums
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
29.05.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organization (Organisational unit)
Kirchberg, V. (Chair)
01.04.2015 → 30.09.2019Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Contingencies Of Art Policy: Comparing Probabilistic and Deterministic Cultural Planning Modes in Baltimore and Hamburg
Kirchberg, V. (Lecturer)
28.02.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
(Re)Constructing a Sociology Of the Arts In the 21th Century: Problems and Perspectives - Inserting "Space" In The Sociology Of The Arts
Kirchberg, V. (Panel participant)
28.02.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Schein statt Sein: Wie Fantasy die Realität der Stadtentwicklung übernimmt (ein Essay)
Kirchberg, V. (Lecturer)
14.02.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Jury-Mitglied: Vergabe des Hanns-Lilje-Stiftungspreises Freiheit und Verantwortung 2014: Die bildende Kraft von Kunst und Kultur
Kirchberg, V. (Reviewer)
28.01.2015Activity: Other expert activities › Peer review of project proposals › Research
Contingencies of Art Policy: Comparing Probabilistic and Deterministic Cultural Planning Modes in Baltimore and Hamburg
Kirchberg, V. (Lecturer)
17.01.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
- 2014
Creative Cities. Die Kulturalisierung der Stadt: Kommentar zu Andreas Reckwitz
Kirchberg, V. (Panel participant)
18.11.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Zukunft der Museen – Museen der Zukunft?
Kirchberg, V. (Panel participant)
10.11.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Besucherforschung als Antwort auf die gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen von Museen
Kirchberg, V. (Lecturer)
24.10.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Emotions as Causes and Effects of Creative Urban Artist Areas
Kirchberg, V. (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
Kirchberg, V. (Oral presentation)
14.07.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Kulturschlösser oder Freigeister?: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Teilhabe von Bürgern an Kulturentwicklungsprozessen in Hamburg
Kirchberg, V. (Panel participant)
11.06.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Unsustainable Urban Development and the Arts in Hamburg
Kirchberg, V. (Lecturer)
16.04.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
- 2013
Die Vermessung der Kunstwirkung auf die Nachhaltigkeit: Methodische Anmerkungen
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
08.11.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
City, Culture, and Society (Journal)
Kirchberg, V. (Editor)
09.2013Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Musik und die Kulturen der Nachhaltigkeit
Kirchberg, V. (Lecturer)
29.07.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Governing Baltimore by Music Scenes?: Insights from Governance and Governmentality Studies
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
01.06.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Networks of Local Arts Organization: A Case Study in Germany
Kirchberg, V. (Oral presentation)
25.05.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Überlegungen zur Kulturentwicklungsplanung für Lüneburg: Einführungsvortrag zum Tagesordnungspunkt "Kulturentwicklungskonzept"
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
11.04.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Experiencing Exhibitions: ‘eMotions’ As an Interdisciplinary Study of Measuring and Analysing Visitor Experiences in Museums
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
16.03.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Sociologia urbana e rurale (Journal)
Kirchberg, V. (Editorial Board)
2013 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
- 2012
eMotion: A transdisciplinary study of visitor experiences at a modern art exhibition
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
26.10.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Navigating Art Space: A short overview about results from the eMotion study
Kirchberg, V. (Panel participant)
26.10.2012Activity: 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
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
26.10.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
36. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie - DSG 2012
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
05.10.2012Activity: 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
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
11.09.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
The Functions of Museums in the Creative City
Kirchberg, V. (Speaker)
11.09.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
