In the first episode of the special season of Khosh Bosh with Anita, we discuss the curation of the Evaporating Suns exhibition. I am joined by Munira Al Sayegh and Verena Formanek. Tune in to hear more about their individual curatorial practices, the process of commissioning nine artworks for Evaporating Suns and the joys and questions that come with cross-cultural curation. Munira Al Sayegh is an independent curator and cultural instigator based in Abu Dhabi, UAE. She is the founder of Dirwaza Curatorial Lab, a UAE-based curatorial incubator. She is a published author and prominent public voice in the region, highlighting the importance of grassroots initiatives, narrative reclamation and non-institutional thinking to build regional art movements from the bottom up. Verena Formanek graduated with an MA from the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. In 1989 she joined the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna as Curator of Design and Exhibitions. She installed the permanent collection in contexts designed by international artists like Barbara Bloom, Jenny Holzer, Donald Judd, and Heimo Zoberning. Formanek was Deputy Artistic Director at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel from 1996 to 2004 and worked closely with Ernst Beyeler. The three following years she was Head of Collections at the Museum für Gestaltung in Zurich. In 2010 she joined the culture department of The Tourism Development and Investment Company as Senior Project Manager for the soon to be opened Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. She worked in the same capacity in the museum department of the Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority until 2016. This special season of Khosh Bosh consists of four hour-long episodes that discuss the works from the exhibition, Evaporating Suns, in-depth with the artists and curators, as well as a myth library that showcases the different myths that the the KBH.G and Dirwaza teams grew up hearing. The thirteen artists showcased in this exhibition are Maitha Abdalla, Mays Albaik, Fatema Al Fardan, Moza Al Matrooshi, Abdullah Alothman, Farah Al Qasimi, Mashael Alsaie, Zuhoor Al Sayegh, Asma Belhamar, Alaa Edris, Saif Mhaisen, Fatima Uzdenova, and Bu Yousuf. The exhibition is presented by KBH.G in Basel, Switzerland and is curated by Dirwaza Curatorial Lab with the support of Verena Formanek. Presented by Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger I KBH.G. Season sponsored by the Foundry in Downtown Dubai. Music by Ronald Ekore.