Dan Flavin /
Grids /
May 28 – Aug 8, 2026 /
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 28, 5pm – 7pm /
David Zwirner
5-6/F, H Queen’s
80 Queen’s Road Central
Central, Hong Kong
Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm
+852 21195900
David Zwirner is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by Dan Flavin featuring the artist’s grids, a key body of work that he began in 1976. The first focused examination of this form, this presentation will include several re-creations of the way Flavin installed the grids in significant exhibitions during his lifetime, and will feature loans from important public collections as well as the Estate of Dan Flavin. A version of this exhibition was on view at David Zwirner New York in January–February 2026, and the presentation in Hong Kong is the first solo exhibition of the artist’s work in Greater China.
From 1963, when he conceived the diagonal of May 25, 1963 (to Constantin Brancusi), a single gold fluorescent lamp installed diagonally on a wall, until his death in 1996, Flavin produced a singularly consistent and prodigious body of work that utilized commercially available fluorescent lamps to create installations (or “situations,” as he preferred to call them) of light and color. Through these light constructions, Flavin was able to literally establish and redefine space.
The grids constituting one of the artist’s most complex and nuanced chromatic investigations, these constructions are composed of an equal number of vertical fixtures facing backwards and horizontal fixtures facing forwards in varying color combinations. Situated in the corner of a room, they simultaneously project a blend of colors outward towards the viewer and inward into the corner, highlighting the architectural conditions of the space. More than almost any other format Flavin worked with, the grids—which grew out of his cornered squares of the late 1960s—simultaneously engage both the phenomenological and the rational concerns that were central to the artist’s practice.
