BIELEFELD.- From 10th September to 6th November 2011, the Bielefelder Kunstverein is presenting recent works and new productions from fifteen international artists and designers. The themed exhibition, entitled »Beyond Gestaltung«, investigates the current interrelationship of art and design. It is being put on show in a city, which, with the foundation of a School of Design (1907) and with its links to industry, has traditionally been strongly influenced by the applied arts. Projects which shed light on the artistic development and the social significance of design form the centre of the exhibition. Design is everywhere today. In the light of social, ecological and technological demands, design no longer restricts itself to classical fields of product concepts. Rather, design is understood as a formal intervention in the very structures of our culture. This means that other cultural fields, such as art, arc