Projects

Pallas Projects collaborates with artists and groups, placing a particular emphasis on early-career, emerging artists and recent graduates, experimental or overlooked practices.

Our gallery programming is centred around our open-submission Artist-Initiated Projects. Selected projects are presented in the context of a gallery space with a dedicated tradition towards the professional development of artists in a peer-led, supportive environment and are supplemented with artists’ talks, texts, workshops, performances, artists' interviews, and gallery visits by colleges and local schools.

This core programme is contextualised alongside collaborative, curated, and international projects.

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Reuben Brown—€URODANC€
19/06/25—05/07/25

€URODANC€ explores the shifting terrain of club-spaces of the past, present and imagined future, where the dance floor becomes both sanctuary and spectacle, resistance and release. Through moments of belonging, betrayal, break-up, revenge, recovery and renewal, it delves into how the sensory experience of clubbing, its sounds, sparkling lights and pulsating rhythms, mirrors the emotional contours of queer love, longing and loss.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Niamh Coffey—Siúnta
22/05/25—07/06/25

Siúnta weaves together disparate narratives into imagined ecological relationships. Forms of flesh, fur, flower and feather mingle and merge.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Michella Perera—Entangled in the History of the Idea
24/04/25—10/05/25

Entangled in the History of the Idea invites viewers into a speculative world built from an archive of shared storytelling, particularly within South Asian immigrant communities.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Artist-Initiated Projects 2025
27/03/25—22/11/25

Pallas Projects/Studios are delighted to announce the participating artists in our Arts Council funded programme of Artist-Initiated Projects 2025.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Cillian Finnerty—Several Small Motors
27/03/25—12/04/25
Detail of work by Cillian Finnerty. Several lamps with custom shades made from newspaper and magazine pages.

Several Small Motors is an exhibition featuring sequences of works that overlap in their concerns, tracing a number of thematic vectors which circle one another, eclipsing or intersecting so that the exhibition takes on the form of something like a game, a puzzle, or rebus which is open to multiple, potentially contradictory, readings or interpretations.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Conan McIvor—THE ESTATE
30/10/24—16/11/24

The Estate is an immersive virtual game experience that draws on elements of visual installation, theatre, social media, pop culture, music and dance in exploring the ideas and values surrounding young working class men in Belfast.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Luke van Gelderen—Romeo Save Me
03/10/24—19/10/24
An image of a man wearing a full face black latex mask projected on a suspended screen, black curtains in background and wooden floor at the bottom of the photo.

'Romeo Save Me' is an installation confronting the challenges of self-perception in an era dominated by incessant streams of digital content. Part of our 2024 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Neva Elliott—Notes on Being Human
12/09/24—28/09/24
A close up image of three dark gray spherical large clay beads with organic forms strung together with beige rope on a white background.

Notes on Being Human brings together reparative acts of making as part of the post-bereavement healing process through the artist’s own experiences of loss. Part of our 2024 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Siobhán McGibbon—Netflix and Disintegrate into Nothing and Everything
18/07/24—03/08/24
Detail of "Catshark, dogfish, rough-hound, morgay, what?" Multi-coloured life-cast of catshark and a object resembling a remote control hovering above an assembly of blankets, cushions.

The sculptural installation; Netflix and Disintegrate into Nothing and Everything (part 1), is an invitation to engage in intimate relations, beyond the species and the sexual. Part of our 2024 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Karen Conway—Papaver Somniferum
06/06/24—22/06/24
A pencil drawing of an old fashioned judge holding a staff with a flag with a cross om it. Behind is a modern sign in dutch

Karen Conway’s Papaver Somniferum is a drawing installation that tells a story in three parts, each part connected to the Netherlands. Part of our 2024 Artist-Initiated Projects programme

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
NAMACO—Mega Dreoilín
09/05/24—25/05/24

NAMACO’s interactive installation Mega Dreoilín emerges from a decaying Dublin to unleash bizarre edutainment products on unsuspecting landlords. Part of our 2024 Artist-Initiated Projects programme

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects
Lee Welch—In Praise of Idleness
18/04/24—04/05/24
Painting of a plant in a vase on a stool, on the left a drawers, a small white statue outline and paintings on the wall. Muted sandy colours.

In Praise of Idleness invites viewers to explore the nuanced intersections of idleness, introspection, emotion and the complexities of the human condition. Part of our 2024 Artist-Initiated Projects programme

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects