Since Owen Martin joined the Astrup Fearnley in 2023, perhaps the single exhibition that most clearly indicates his particular curatorial knack – for exhibitions that are lyrical in their apparent conceptual simplicity, but at the same time rigorously thought-through and global in remit – is ‘Between Rivers’. Artists including Hicham Berrada, Senga Nengudi and Thao Nguyen Phan were considered for the ways they ‘propose new ways of reading and imagining rivers’, at a moment when they are repeatedly dropping to their lowest levels in recorded history. Martin arrived in Oslo after six years as the inaugural chief curator of the Norval Foundation in Cape Town, where he organised exhibitions of prominent artists including Zanele Muholi, Ibrahim Mahama, William Kentridge, Yinka Shonibare and Michael Armitage. He previously curated the South African arts programme for the British Council before serving as curator of moving image at Zeitz MOCAA from 2015–17.