For its second edition, in November 2022, the groundbreaking Noor Riyadh festival of light and contemporary art presents 190 monumental works signed by 130 artists from 40 countries and scattered in 40 emblematic locations throughout the city.

Curated by Hervé Mikaeloff, Dorothy Di Stefano and Jumana Ghouth and adviser Arnaud Morand, Noor Riyadh brings together Saudi and international artists such as Grimanesa Amorós, Gisela Colón, Douglas Gordon, winner of the Turner Prize, Alicja Kwade, Sabine Marcelis, Muhannad Shono, who represented Saudi Arabia at the Venice Biennale 2022, and French artists Daniel Buren, Jean-Michel Othoniel and Bertrand Lavier.

Entitled "We dream of new horizons", this second edition transforms the city into a dazzling nighttime gallery without walls, welcoming over 2.5 million visitors from international audiences to visitors from all over the globe.

Gathering a dedicated team, Manifesto manages the artist liaison, especially for Daniel Buren, but also the monitoring of artworks production and installation, their monitoring during the Festival and their dismantling, as well as supplier research for 82 of these monumental artworks in the public space. 

The artwork Le Ciel coloré et projeté (2022), was created in situ at Prince Abdulaziz Bin Mohammed Bin Ayyaf Park as artist Daniel Buren believes the location is inseparable from the work. This geometrical structure affirms one of Buren’s most fundamental objectives in a spectacular way: the multiplicity of viewpoints and the abundance of possibilities. It is an immersive work that contains an architecture within a square and raises the question ‘What is art?’. It explores the reverse and the right side, the decor and the decorated, the sculpture and the painting as light brings the colors and shadows of the structure to life.