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.

Periodical Review 13—Maslow’s Hammer

01/12/23—27/01/24

Sculpture documentation of drapped textile piece in blues and dusty tones.

Periodical Review (2011–ongoing) is a long-running curatorial project which sets out to consider, revisit and review current movements within contemporary art practices from around Ireland.

Part of Periodical Review

Aoibheann Greenan—The Ninth Muse

29/10/23—18/11/23

detail image of a grey and green symmetrical drawing ressembling a biological form.

The Ninth Muse speculates the creative and social ramifications of brain-machine interfacing, drawing inspiration from the Nine Muses of ancient Greek mythology.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects

inter_site–Error: /undefined

05/10/23—21/10/23

Error: /undefined interrogates interlocking issues of our current conjuncture. Environmental and corporeal breakdown are examined against systems of never ending pressure and progress under capitalism. Part of our 2023 Artist-Initiated Projects programme

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects

Banbha McCann—Domestic Bliss

14/09/23—30/09/23

White wall gallery with wooden floor, a yellow table holds a kettle made from white cloth, two pieces of white cloth one with pink details and the other with green and yellow hang in the background.

Domestic Bliss reflects on the desire for a home, and how to make one. The work in this exhibition blurs the lines between the personal and universal, image and object, memory and desire. Part of our 2023 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects

‘Freebirds M.C.C. Project’—Biddy Mulligan

27/07/23—12/08/23

A band with two guitar players, a drummer and a singer playing outside under a shelter with a blue wall behind them.

The ‘Freebirds M.C.C. Project’ is a socially-engaged project that involves twelve male members of the Freebirds Motorcycle Club from County Longford along with artist Brigid Mulligan who is a club member and little sister of the group. Part of our 2023 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects

Collective Residue—off the clock

20/07/23—23/07/23

Exhibition documentation of a white wall gallery with wooden floors and low and red lighting, a textile piece of white fabric is drapped and hung from the ceiling, photographic prints and drawings hang on the wall and a sheet of fabric painted with black ink hangs from the ceiling.

Inspired by the common experience of wearing double hats as artists and art workers at Pallas Projects/Studios: ‘residue’ expresses the spaces in-between words, roles and processes; what is visible and yet still unseen.

Part of Special Projects

Staring at the Sea: Land art and reflection symposium

06/07/23—18/07/23

Photo of a stoney beach with a man-made trail of stones placed in a line

The Staring at the sea residency at Cill Rialaig foreground was studio activity, reflection and group work alongside exploration in the open landscape; exploring dry wall stone techniques as a tool for artistic expression and site-specific practice.

Part of International Projects

Tanad Aaron—We’ll See You Now

05/07/23—15/07/23

A sculpture of a green shelf-like object, a cermaic white object ressembling a deflated ballon hangs over the edge and a fluorescent white light is attached to the back.

We’ll See You Now is the result of the cumulative research practice of Tanad Aaron, working within muddy approaches to furniture, space and object making. Part of our 2023 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects

Artist-Run Europe: Practice/ Projects/Spaces

22/06/23

An image of a grey book with 'Artist-Run Europe' written in white and 'Practice, Project, Spaces' written in black on a white background.

Part how-to manual, part history, and part socio-political critique, the second edition of Artist-Run Europe looks at the conditions, organisational models, and role of artist-led practice within contemporary art and society.

Part of Learning & Research

Bog Cottage—Queer na nÓg: 4ever young

15/06/23—24/06/23

Detail image of the top of a sculpture that ressembles a tree, orange spikes stick out from a red centre.

“The Bogs tell me about Queer na nÓg: 4ever young over a voice note. They record as they walk around Berlin, and I listen as I’m walking to a mutual friend’s house in Belfast. As they talk in-depth about the creation of this new world within Pallas, it transports me to the entrance of a magical world” Part of our 2023 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects

Art Works! 2023: Contemporary Art Auction

19/04/23—11/05/23

The Art Works! 2023: Contemporary Art Auction fundraiser will help the cutting-edge arts organisation continue their mission to support grassroots arts initiatives, emerging artists and maintaining artists studios in the city.

Part of Special Projects

Venus Patel—Monsters of the Apocalypse

13/04/23—28/04/23

A woman in a white dress with her arms raised shouting upwards in front of a white wall with green spot lights, a scroll hangs to the left and a photograph to the right.

Monsters of the Apocalypse acts as a queer reimagining of the end of the world, as well as a proposal for what a new one might look like. Using the language and presentation of radical preachers, Patel delves into the root of monstrosity. Part of our 2023 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Part of Artist-Initiated Projects