Award 2021
Welcome to the Social Art Award 2021 – Online Gallery!
We are grateful for the many inspiring contributions from artists around the world. The selected works reflect a broad spectrum of contemporary social art practices and explore new relationships between humans, nature, and technology. They address themes such as ecological regeneration, climate justice, sustainable futures, social resilience, and more-than-human perspectives.
Below you will find the submissions from the Social Art Award 2021 – New Greening edition that passed the initial jury round. The Online Gallery offers public visibility to these works and encourages dialogue around their ideas and approaches; it does not replace the final jury decision.
Thank you to all artists for sharing your visionary and committed work. We invite you to explore the gallery and engage with the perspectives shaping New Greening.
Colour Blue
Marina Wittemann
Working as an artist, I started to think about the materials I work with. I did not want to buy and use materials that directly or indirectly harm the environment. Working with found objects, I sort of clean the planet and transform waste into beauty. Newspaper (paper) is a natural product that will be further recycled for reuse. But before that, there will be a long process of collection, transportation, processing, which leads to high consumption and emission of harmful substances. I collect old newspapers in my city on my own and use them to create my works. Thinking about an environment-friendly approach, I wanted to translate this into something positive for people. Get their attention and change their minds about the usage of waste in art. So the very process of ‘translating’ a newspaper into an art object (covering the surface) suggested to me the decision to work with pure colour. I use acrylic wall paints, which does not lead to additional consumption of special paints for artists. Thus it turns out ecological recycling of waste into objects of art which rhetorically mean everything can be art and beautiful - the question is how you approach it.
Working as an artist, I started to think about the materials I work with. I did not want to buy and use materials that directly or indirectly harm the environment. Working with found objects, I sort of clean the planet and transform waste into beauty. Newspaper (paper) is a natural product that will be further recycled for reuse. But before that, there will be a long process of collection, transportation, processing, which leads to high consumption and emission of harmful substances. I collect old newspapers in my city on my own and use them to create my works. Thinking about an environment-friendly approach, I wanted to translate this into something positive for people. Get their attention and change their minds about the usage of waste in art. So the very process of ‘translating’ a newspaper into an art object (covering the surface) suggested to me the decision to work with pure colour. I use acrylic wall paints, which does not lead to additional consumption of special paints for artists. Thus it turns out ecological recycling of waste into objects of art which rhetorically mean everything can be art and beautiful - the question is how you approach it.