BIELEFELD.- The group exhibition »In the Event of Suspicion« understands suspicion as a medium allowing both artists and visitors to question aesthetic, political, social, and media-related issues. On view are works by six international contemporary artists who practice methods of observation and analysis, enquiring into forms of composition and matters of representation. Much, if not everything, can come in for suspicion these days: news coverage, the workings of the media, economic and political developments, questions of sustainability and the conditions and possibilities governing international collaboration. But in order to formulate a strategy of suspicion in the context of art, the understanding of the term has to be broadened. It cannot indicate only the establishing of proof or methods of verifying negative presumptions any more; suspicion denotes, much rather, acting in a positive sense with a goal in mind, an essentially critical and sceptical attitude towards the giv