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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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.

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.

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.

Artist-Initiated Projects
IADT Degree Students—In the making: Mud Between the Toes
20/02/25—01/03/25
Two sheer stockings with pink and orange cat faces painted onto them, resembling makeshift masks.

In the making presents a taste of the future. For three weeks in February-March 2025, Pallas Projects provides an exciting platform for emerging art practices, hosting three consecutive exhibitions of new work by degree year students from IADT’s BA in Art.

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Earthbound Tales
30/01/25—02/02/25

In the making presents a taste of the future. For three weeks in February-March 2025, Pallas Projects provides an exciting platform for emerging art practices, hosting three consecutive exhibitions of new work by degree year students from IADT’s BA in Art.

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One must imagine Sisyphus happy
21/11/24—23/11/24

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Artist-Initiated Projects
Dublin Modular—Chosen Family
27/06/24—10/07/24
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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Periodical Review 14—A Language to Shout In
12/06/24—25/01/25

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

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