Nick Currie reports on the run-up to the 5th Berlin Biennale. We present Berlin’s Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie. Curator Vincent Honoré talks about a work by Louise Bourgeois. Jeremy Deller introduces a number of artists who are important to him. Francesco Stocchi discusses a performance by Micol Assael at Johann König. With portraits of Romanian artist Mircea Cantor, Belgrade’s conceptual art pioneer Raša Todosijević, and American artist Frances Stark.