Do It Together
Pallas Projects 1996–2026

Do It Together 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 Pallas’ long-running and ongoing advocacy, research and publishing on artist-run practices, the programme draws on, 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).

This major 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, with new or restaged works by 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, Venus Patel, and Paul O’Neill, alongside invited contributions by artist-run projects and spaces over 2 phases.

Phase I shares the work of PUBLICS (a curatorial and contemporary art commissioning agency with a dedicated library, and exhibition space in Vallila, Helsinki), and Muine Bheag Arts (an artist-run project based in Carlow). This will be followed in Phase II by contributions from Jennie Moran (Luncheonette, Dublin), and Kunsthal Gent (Belgium). 

Both phases of the exhibition sit within a brand new commission by collaborative art practice Forerunner (Andreas Kindler von Knobloch, Tom Watt, and Tanad Aaron), which will feature a set of modular exhibition architecture, and an architectural intervention transforming the Pallas Projects gallery space.

In parallel, a number of works collected over the years by Pallas’s artistic directors Mark Cullen & Gavin Murphy and curator Eve Woods (often swapped, gifted or exchanged) will be introduced at intervals throughout the run of the exhibition, alongside books, printed matter and other ephemera. A series of talks, events and screenings will accompany Phase II, alongside a free exhibition publication marking 30 years of Pallas Projects. 

Funded by The Arts Council, Dublin City Council, and the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport.

Pallas 30 programme is presented in partnership with IMMA, NCAD, the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark, Dublin Modular, and Paper Visual Art.