Projects

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

Artist-Initiated Projects (AIP) is a highly accessible open-submission programme, presented in a peer-led, supportive environment. It is designed to be dynamic, quick and responsive to reflect what artists are currently making. Periodical Review (2011–present) sets out to consider, revisit and review current movements within contemporary art practices from around Ireland to facilitate and encourage new readings, collaboration, crossover and debate.

This core programme is contextualised alongside collaborative and international projects.

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Dublin Modular—Chosen Family
Outdoor party, people standing at a railing dancing in front of dj decks.

Dublin Modular's exhibition and event celebrates the theme of Chosen Family, a concept central to the queer community. It includes a series of work by local queer artists, panel discussions and closed by their 2024 Pride Yard Party

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Chronic Collective
A group of people wearing face masks posing for a picture, four stand in the back, in front of them one person sits and another kneels beside them, in the background is a white wall covered in post-it notes in pastel purple, pink, green and blue surround the text 'Chronic Collective' written in a neon pink.

Chronic Collective, an initiative by artists Áine O'Hara and Tara Carroll who have developed a landmark series of events around art, illness, and disability. These events are by and for sick and disabled artists as well as anyone who wants to create with accessibility in mind, or participate in an accessible art project.

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Qaleidoscope— Queer Film and Performance on Tour
Peformance documenation, a person wearing headphones is standing hunched over in front of a buliding, their two hands reach around holding the red brick framing the window.

Qaleidoscope will feature Canadian and international film and performance art by Queer and QTIBPOC artists that explore, question and play with notions of identity and utilize queer artistic expression to propose and investigate diverse ways of looking at sexuality, gender, race and film and performance art itself.

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Bealtaine Festival—LIVESTOCK: Viral—performance by Day Magee

This is the first of a series of three live streamed performance art events with leading artists Olivia Hassett, Day Magee and El Putnam, exploring the vulnerability of the human body as part of an ecology both human and animal.

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PhotoIreland Festival: Gerry Balfe Smyth—Last Breath

Gerry Balfe Smyth’s first solo exhibition Last Breath is a series of photograph’s documenting life in the south inner-city flats complex of St. Teresa’s Garden’s in Dublin’s Liberties area. Part of PhotoIreland Festival 2018.

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PhotoIreland–Recount of Conflict

The Recount of Conflict presents projects focused on the disruption of the everyday life of individuals, families, communities, organisations, countries, etc. The artists selected for the exhibition are Anna Ehrenstein, Demetris Koilalous, Jasper Bastian, Marcus Haydock, Mark McGuinness, Martin von den Driesch, and Sascha Richter.

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Alex Martinis Roe—Genealogies; Frameworks for Exchange

Genealogies; Frameworks for Exchange explores experimental formats for discourse that have the potential to both open up and create affirmative ways to historicise genealogies of authorship - especially female genealogies.

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We are never at home—The Model, Sligo

We are never at home addresses the structural, formal, discursive and metaphysical contexts of the ongoing Pallas project via a two-way temporal engagement with our future, present, and past programming.

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Stephanie Syjuco—Unsolicited Fabrications: Shareware Sculptures

Syjuco’s installation of hand-made sculptures is based on a shared database of “artworks” created by users of SketchUp, a 3-D modelling software made by Google.

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By Diverse Means We Arrive at the Same End

This is a different kind of art exhibition. This is not meant as an egotistical statement, for what makes it different is not the result of an exhaustive and elaborate set of ideological criteria that has been met, or the culmination of a curator's taste, status, perspective or target-audience.

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Offside Live—Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane

These were two nighttime extensions to OFFSIDE co-programmed by Fergus Byrne featuring audiovisual performances that responded to the classical architecture of the Hugh Lane

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Offside—Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane

When asked by Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane to programme the main galleries for the summer, we wanted to take stock of the various artists we have worked with in the past and others that we hoped to work with in the future.

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