Do It Together
Pallas Projects 1996–2026

Do It Together explores the impact and legacy of artist-run community-making: the role of the artist-led in creating communities of artists, and of working in and with their community settings. The artists, groups, projects and spaces invited by Pallas to take part, each within their different set of circumstances, show us how artists come together as an alternative to commercial self-interest, to propose ways of being and care that reimagine civic, social and cultural futures. Drawing on Pallas’ long-running and ongoing advocacy, research and publishing on artist-run practices, the programme draws on, reflects and responds to the legacy and impact of artist-run antecedents AA Bronson (General Idea, Art Metropole, Printed Matter), and Gordon Matta-Clark (a pioneer of 112 Greene Street – one of New York's first alternative, artist-run venues, and co-founder of the artist-run restaurant Food).

This major exhibition features work by artists representing significant moments in Pallas's 30 year history, from its early days in Foley Street to the present day, with new or restaged works by Katie Holten, Brendan Earley, Jesse Jones, Brian Duggan, Sarah Browne & Gareth Kennedy, John Smith, Ruth Clinton & Niamh Moriarty, E.S.P. TV (Scott Kiernan and Victoria Keddie), Robert Dunne, Venus Patel, and Paul O’Neill, alongside invited contributions by artist-run projects and spaces over 2 phases.

Phase I shares the work of PUBLICS (a curatorial and contemporary art commissioning agency with a dedicated library, and exhibition space in Vallila, Helsinki), and Muine Bheag Arts (an artist-run project based in Carlow). This will be followed in Phase II by contributions from Jennie Moran (Luncheonette, Dublin), and Kunsthal Gent (Belgium). 

Both phases of the exhibition sit within a brand new commission by collaborative art practice Forerunner (Andreas Kindler von Knobloch, Tom Watt, and Tanad Aaron), which will feature a set of modular exhibition architecture, and an architectural intervention transforming the Pallas Projects gallery space.

In parallel, a number of works collected over the years by Pallas’s artistic directors Mark Cullen & Gavin Murphy and curator Eve Woods (often swapped, gifted or exchanged) will be introduced at intervals throughout the run of the exhibition, alongside books, printed matter and other ephemera. A series of talks, events and screenings will accompany Phase II, alongside a free exhibition publication marking 30 years of Pallas Projects. 

Funded by The Arts Council, Dublin City Council, and the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport.

Pallas 30 programme is presented in partnership with IMMA, NCAD, the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark, Dublin Modular, and Paper Visual Art.

Biographies:

Forerunner is a collaborative art practice founded by Tom Watt, Tanad Aaron and Andreas Kindler von Knobloch. Combined, their practice presents an ambitious interrogation of objects, environments and uses. Working with everyday or commonplace materials lends the works a familiarity while allowing the freedom to be re-examined in a new and unfamiliar context. This methodology often ends in work whose emphasis is on its production values, be they self-made or factory finished, and a focus on the work’s overall coherent composition. Permanent commissions exist in Dublin, Belfast, The Lake District, Paris and Japan.

Muine Bheag Arts is an artist-run organisation based in a small town in County Carlow that engages with the local context to present projects in the public realm. Guided by values of collaboration and experimentation, Muine Bheag Arts invites dialogue between artists, audiences, community and place. The programme includes exhibitions, workshops, events, residencies, publishing and radio broadcasts. These platforms provide opportunities for artists to research, test and make through close collaboration with the organisation and members of the local community. 

PUBLICS is a curatorial and contemporary art commissioning agency with a dedicated library, exhibition space and event space in Vallila, Helsinki. Under the artistic direction of curator Paul O’Neill and with program manager Annabelle Antas, PUBLICS explores a “work together” institutional model with multiple overlapping objectives, thematic strands and collaborations. As such, PUBLICS proposes the term “Public” as always plural—as a concept; as a group of people (imagined, actualized or real); and as a contested spatio-temporal location/discourse in the world.

Kunst­hal Gent is an expe­ri­men­tal inter­sec­ti­on for the pre­sen­ta­ti­on and devel­op­ment of con­tem­po­ra­ry art, loca­ted in a monu­men­tal fourteenth-cen­tu­ry Car­me­li­te monas­tery in the cen­tre of Ghent sin­ce 2018. During the week­end, Kunst­hal Gent is an exhi­bi­ti­on spa­ce. On wor­king days it is a work­pla­ce for artists and artis­tic orga­ni­sa­ti­ons, but the­re are also public acti­vi­ties: from lec­tu­res and work­shops to scree­nings and performances. Three times a year the­re is an ope­ning with a new series of exhi­bi­ti­ons. In the per­ma­nent exhi­bi­ti­on pro­gram­me End­less Exhi­bi­ti­on*, cura­tors and artists add exhi­bi­ti­ons wit­hout an end date. In addi­ti­on, Kunst­hal Gent hou­ses the devel­op­ment pro­gram­me Per­ma­nent­ly Prac­ti­sing, offe­ring six artists, col­lec­ti­ves, orga­ni­sa­ti­ons or col­la­bo­ra­ti­ve pro­jects a grant for a work peri­od each year.

Jennie Moran is a visual artist whose work explores hospitality as a creative and connective philosophy. Blending sculpture, food and performance, she founded Luncheonette, an art/hospitality project at National College of Art and Design in 2013. She lectures widely, mentors in holistic hospitality and curates discursive events. She was recently awarded a scholarship at the Getty Research Institute. Jennie is the author of "How to Soften Corners" and was named Best Emerging Voice at the Irish Food Writing Awards. 

AA Bronson formed the artists’ group General Idea with Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal in 1969 and for the next 25 years they lived and worked together, undertaking over 100 solo exhibitions, and countless group shows and temporary public art projects. They were known for their magazine FILE (1972-1989), their unrelenting production of low-cost multiples, and their early involvement in punk, queer theory, and AIDS activism. In 1974 they founded Art Metropole, Toronto, a distribution centre and archive for artists’ books, audio, video, and multiples. From 1987 through 1994, they focused their work on the subject of AIDS. Since his partners died in 1994, AA has worked and exhibited as a solo artist, often collaborating with younger generations. From 2004 to 2010 he was the Director of Printed Matter, Inc. in New York City, founding the annual NY Art Book Fair in 2005. He now lives in Berlin.

Sarah Browne & Gareth Kennedy had a solo exhibition at Pallas in 2006 and since 2009 work together as Kennedy Browne. Solo presentations include the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin; Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois; Wilfried Lentz Gallery, Rotterdam; Limerick City Gallery of Art and Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris. Recent group exhibitions include System Arming at Luan Gallery (2025), Data Pulls at The Glucksman, Cork (2023) and Aerial Sparks, Inis Oírr, Galway (2020). Other significant presentations include Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz; Bern Biennial; Zero1 Biennial, San Jose and Kadist Foundation, Paris. Kennedy Browne co- represented Ireland at the 53rd Venice Biennale alongside their respective individual practices.

Ruth Clinton and Niamh Moriarty are collaborative artists based in the West of Ireland, working together since 2010. They make exhibitions and events that combine visual art, experimental film, music and performance to contemplate power and complicity, ecology and loss. Their recent work tests the possibility of creating a new narrative identity for Ireland and the Irish diaspora that acknowledges adversities as well as complicities in order to build capacity for solidarity. Recent projects include: ‘It Takes a Village’, 41st EVA International—Ireland’s Biennale of Contemporary Arts, 2025; and ‘The Salvage Agency’, TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, curated by Michele Horrigan. 

Brian Duggan lives and works in Dublin, at times his practice may include sculpture, film, installation, printing, publishing and sound. In 2026 and 2027 his work will be central to a major touring exhibition, in memory of a free festival, starting in Ormston House Limerick, with Alanna O'Kelly and Orla Barry.touring to Wexford Arts Centre and UILLINN West Cork. He was the original co-Founder and co-Curator and co-Director of the multi platform Pallas Heights Studios, Projects in Dublin from 1996 to 2009 with artists Mark Cullen and Gavin Murphy. His work is represented by the gallery See you next Tuesday, Basel Switzerland. 

Robert Dunne’s practice looks at visual and physical elements of the spaces we inhabit, extracting the typical from the unseen and every day. Solo exhibitions include Sculture, Theca Gallery, Milan, Italy, 2018; Revise, Pallas Projects/Studios, 2018; (the site the ruin), Kilkenny Arts Office, 2021; Linenhall Art Centre, Mayo, 2017; and Kilkenny Arts Festival, 201). Selected group shows include Contradictory Senses, Lismore Castle Arts,  2022); Far From Here, The Complex, 2019; Reviving Plains,126 Gallery, Galway, 2019; Biennale Internationale d’art non objectif, France, 2017; Combined, Gray Contemporary, Houston, Texas, 2017; ARTWORKS, Visual, Carlow, 2016.

Brendan Earley (Born 1971). Lives and works in Wicklow. After graduating from NCAD in 1995 he spent a number of years travelling before receiving the Fulbright scholarship to attend Hunter College, New York City. Graduated with a Master in Fine Art in 1999 and returned to Dublin where he exhibits regularly both nationally and internationally. He was awarded his PhD, entitled A Gothic Modernism, in 2010 by the National University of Ireland.

E.S.P. TV is a collaboration between artists Scott Kiernan and Victoria Keddie that utilizes a mobile television studio to explore the performative nature of production and televisual language . Through installations, broadcasts, and live taping events, they have built a network of artists and an extensive archive.They held over 100 international events, including their infamous TV cabaret at Pallas Projects/Studios in Dublin in 2012, and built an extensive archive. Their mobile studio, UNIT 11, was a converted news van toured across the US in 2015. They worked with major institutions including the Whitney Museum, New Museum, Museum of Arts and Design, Queens Museum, Harvard Art Museums, and Ballroom Marfa. The project was a 501(c)3 non-profit supported by Franklin Furnace, Wave Farm, and the Augustine Foundation.

Katie Holten (b. 1975) is an Irish artist and activist who represented Ireland at the 2003 Venice Biennale. Her work explores ecology, language, and the entangled relationship between humans and nature. Known for projects that blend drawing, sculpture, and public art, she has created Tree Alphabets and the "Tree Museum" in New York City. Holten has exhibited widely at institutions including the Bronx Museum and the New Orleans Museum of Art. She is a Fulbright Scholar and recipient of the Pollock Krasner Award.

Jesse Jones (1978, Ireland) is a Dublin-based artist working with film, performance and sculpture through expanded cinema. Her practice explores speculative feminisms, myth and suppressed archetypes, creating immersive installations that propose counter-narratives to dominant histories. She represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 2017 with Tremble Tremble, inspired by the Italian wages-for-housework movement of the 1970s. Her recent work, Mirror Martyr Mirror Moon (2025), combines 16mm film and sculpture in dialogue with Artemisia Gentileschi’s Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria. Jones teaches on Sherkin Island, West Cork, for TU Dublin, and is an elected member of the autonomous association of artists in Ireland, Aosdána.

Paul O’Neill is an Irish curator, artist, writer, and educator, and is Artistic Director of PUBLICS: a curatorial agency, contemporary art commissioner, event and exhibition space with a dedicated library in Helsinki. Between 2013–17, he was Director of the Graduate Program at the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS), Bard College, New York. Paul has co-curated over 80 exhibitions across the world, and is the author and editor of many books on theories and histories of the Curatorial including: The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s), (MIT Press, 2012), Beyond Caring: Para-hosting as Curatorial Escape (Floating Opera Press, Berlin, 2025), and Not Going it Alone: Collective Curatorial Curating (Apexart, New York, 2024), and CURIOUS (Open Editions, London, 2024) co-edited with Gerrie van Noord. The Paul O’Neill Archives (1993–2024) are part of the Irish Museum of Modern Art Collection, Dublin.

Thomas Min (b. 1992, Leuven) and Egon Van Herreweghe (b. 1985, Ghent) first collaborated in 2016 (An Ideal Husband) and again in 2019 (Crisis of Masculinity). Their joint projects are often large-scale or long-term, and draw on their immediate surroundings and personal experiences. Recurring themes include masculinity, sculptural machismo, and machines.

Venus Patel is a monster – part woman, part cardboard, part Indian, part Salvadorian, part cat, and part trash. Across performance, film, and sculpture, she proposes the deconstruction of boundaries and the unleashing of hidden and erased histories. She embraces failure, DIY aesthetics, and hybridity to puncture the structures that uphold society. Her work relies on the absurd, the fantastical, and the abject to create speculative realities for Queer/POC liberation. She has exhibited and performed across Ireland and N.Ireland and has screened film work across Europe and the US.

John Smith’s film, video and installation works have been shown at museums and art galleries around the world, and awarded major prizes at international film festivals. Known for their formal ingenuity, subversive wit and oblique storytelling, his films blur the perceived boundaries between documentary, fiction, representation and abstraction, playfully exploring and exposing the language of cinema. Recent solo exhibitions include Secession, Vienna (2025); Kate MacGarry, London (2025) and Kunstmuseum Magdeburg (2022). Smith received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists in 2011, and in 2013 he was the winner of Film London’s Jarman Award. Retrospectives of his films have been presented at international film festivals in 16 countries, and his work is held in numerous public collections including Tate Gallery, and MoMA, New York.

Hito Steyerl (b. 1966, Munich) is a German filmmaker, visual artist, and writer whose work critically examines the politics of images, digital technology, and globalised power structures. A professor at the Berlin University of the Arts, Steyerl blends documentary, essay, and satire to interrogate how images circulate and shape reality. Her influential essay films tackle themes of representation, political memory, economic collapse, and the material conditions of media. Steyerl has represented Germany at the Venice Biennale and her work has been exhibited internationally at major institutions including Documenta, Tate Modern, and the Museum of Modern Art. Her current solo exhibition, The Island, is on view at Fondazione Prada's Osservatorio in Milan until 30 October 2026. Her exhibition 2 films by 2 artists—Manon de Boer and Hito Steyerl, took place at Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin, 2009. 

The Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark is a small, private, family-run artist estate that was Founded by Jane Crawford, the artist’s widow, after Matta-Clark's untimely death in 1978 at the age of 35. In 2012 Crawford’s daughter, Jessamyn Fiore, officially joined as Co-Director of the Estate and became Director in 2025. In 2002, the Estate moved the archive of Gordon Matta-Clark to the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, officially gifting it to the institution in 2011. Since 1998, the Estate has been represented by the David Zwirner Gallery. In addition to facilitating exhibitions, publications and projects about Gordon Matta-Clark, the Estate also supports the generation of new work by contemporary artists and other creatives in conversation with Matta-Clark's practice and legacy. 

Jessamyn Fiore is the Director of the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark as well as a curator and writer. She was the Director of Thisisnotashop, a nonprofit gallery space in Dublin, Ireland, from 2007–2010. She received a Masters Degree in contemporary art theory, practice, and philosophy from The National College of Art and Design, Dublin, in 2009. She curated ‘112 Greene Street: The Early Years (1970–1974)’ at David Zwirner in New York (2011), editing the critically acclaimed catalogue, published by David Zwirner and Radius Books (2012). She recently co-curated Gordon Matta-Clark: Graffiti Archive 1972/73 with Roger Gastman of Beyond the Streets for White Columns gallery, New York City (March 2025) and is the curator of an upcoming Gordon Matta-Clark exhibition at the MAXXI Museum (Rome, Italy) in November 2026.

Dublin Modular is a queer-run artist collective experimenting with contemporary arts environments by leveraging unconventional spaces. Through community-focused events, they create opportunities to learn, listen, and move with the arts. Dublin Modular fosters exploration, collaboration, and knowledge-sharing around live electronic music, installation and performance, creating inclusive spaces for audiences to interact and experiment. Their work plays with the boundaries between music, visual arts, technology and movement, contributing to Ireland's evolving experimental, underground and multidisciplinary arts scene.