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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Periodical Review 14—A Language to Shout In

Selected by Miguel Amado, Valeria Ceregini, Mark Cullen & Gavin Murphy. Featuring work by Basil Al-Rawi, Kian Benson Bailes, Ceara Conway, Sarah Durcan, Farouk858, Shane Hynan, Sarah Long, Samir Mahmood, Riki Matsuda, Yvonne McGuinness, NAMACO (Han Hogan and Donal Fullam), Yuri Pattison, Amanda Rice, Sonia Shiel, Laura Skehan, Pádraig Spillane, Frank Sweeney, Anne Tallentire, Kathy Tynan, Amna Walayat. Essay by Diana Bamimeke

Periodical Review
One must imagine Sisyphus happy

One must imagine Sisyphus happy presents the work of Croatian artists Mia Maraković, Pavle Pavlović and Rada Iva Sibila and explores how individuals cope with a pervasive sense of impending doom while embracing ritual, absurdity and transformation.

International
Conan McIvor—THE ESTATE

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
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
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
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
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

Collaboration
Karen Conway—Papaver Somniferum
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

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
Pallas for Palestine—Fundraising exhibition
Poster for the fundraising exhibition 'Pallas for Palestine' the poster has a green and red square mosaic in the centre and has the logos for the Arts Council, Pallas Projects/Studios and the Digital Hub at the bottom.

Pallas for Palestine is a fundraising exhibition featuring the work from artists in residence at the studios, the sale of which directly benefits our chosen charities; Médecins Sans Frontières and UNRWA

Special
Lee Welch—In Praise of Idleness
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
Building societies—architecture in Irish artists’ film
Film still showing a building being demolished with the subtitles 'does such an empty building deserve to be maintained'

Coinciding with the exhibition the necessity of ruins (Films 2021-2023), artist Gavin Murphy has selected film works by four Irish Artists for a special screening and Artist’s talk presented in collaboration with aemi and Pallas Projects.

International