30 years ago, Pallas Studios first opened its doors in a run-down former knitwear factory on Dublin’s Foley Street… Over the subsequent 30 years Pallas has navigated Dublin’s city centre, from building to building, space to space, providing desperately needed artists’ studio spaces and organising hundreds of art projects, exhibitions and events, supporting the practices of generations of emerging, early-career and established artists.
To celebrate, Pallas Projects presents an ambitious programme of exhibitions, commissions, events and collaborations with Irish and international artists, artist-run spaces, projects and institutions.
The programme explores the impact and legacy of artist-run community-making: the role of the artist-led in creating communities of artists, and of working in and with their community settings. The artists, groups, projects and spaces invited by Pallas to take part, each within their different set of circumstances, show us how artists come together as an alternative to commercial self-interest, to propose ways of being and care that reimagine civic, social and cultural futures. Drawing on a 30-year history of supporting and developing Irish art and artist-run practices, the programme also reflects and responds to the legacy and impact of artist-run antecedents AA Bronson (General Idea, Art Metropole, Printed Matter), and Gordon Matta-Clark (a pioneer of 112 Greene Street – one of New York's first alternative, artist-run venues, and co-founder of the artist-run restaurant Food).
Pallas 30 is a programme of exhibitions, commissions, events and collaborations celebrating 30 years of the artist-run space Pallas Projects/Studios. Culminating in an exhibition Do it Together in September 2026, the programme explores the impact and legacy of artist-run community-making, with invited Irish and international artists, artist-run spaces and projects.
Do It Together is a major exhibition in 2 phases over September–October, with invited contributions from Muine Bheag Arts (an artist-run project based in Carlow), Jennie Moran (Luncheonette, Dublin), Kunsthal Gent (an artist-run space in Belgium), and PUBLICS (a curatorial and contemporary art commissioning agency with a dedicated library, and exhibition space in Vallila, Helsinki). Its centrepiece will be newly commissioned exhibition architecture by collaborative art practice Forerunner (Andreas Kindler von Knobloch, Tom Watt, and Tanad Aaron), alongside a screening programme of works by Hito Steyerl (Germany), and a very special collaboration with the estate of Gordon Matta-Clark.
The exhibition features work by artists representing significant moments in Pallas's 30 year history, from its early days in Foley Street to the present day: Katie Holten, Brendan Earley, Jesse Jones, Brian Duggan, Sarah Browne & Gareth Kennedy, John Smith, Ruth Clinton & Niamh Moriarty, E.S.P. TV (Scott Kiernan and Victoria Keddie), Robert Dunne, and Venus Patel. In parallel, works collected by Pallas’s artistic directors Mark Cullen & Gavin Murphy and curator Eve Woods (often swapped, gifted or exchanged) will be introduced to the exhibition at intervals throughout the run of the exhibition, alongside books, printed matter and other ephemera.
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Pallas Open Projects
To coincide with our year celebration, a new multi-purpose gallery/venue/micro-cinema – POP – will open in Newmarket Yards. This new space will allow Pallas to present workshops, screenings and lectures, alongside collaborative and community-focused projects by artists and groups, presenting partnerships with arts organisations such as Dublin Fringe Festival and The Complex, and regular workshops and events throughout the year programmed by resident collective Dublin Modular.
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