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.
Bioremediating Missile
Jos Volkers
In 2020, 75 years following World War II, Ecological Space Engineering transported the Bioremediating Missile (Brm. 1.) from Romania to The Netherlands, a 2100km Journey. A remarkable event, not least because the Brm. 1., is an exact replica of the V-2 rocket. In this case, the V-2 rocket is made of biodegradable materials such as wood, jute, clay, and loam, and packs a payload of essential seeds, spores, water and nutrients. We’re talking the world’s largest seed bomb, one that will be able to renew the ecology of the European continent following imminent catastrophe.
In 2020, 75 years following World War II, Ecological Space Engineering transported the Bioremediating Missile (Brm. 1.) from Romania to The Netherlands, a 2100km Journey. A remarkable event, not least because the Brm. 1., is an exact replica of the V-2 rocket. In this case, the V-2 rocket is made of biodegradable materials such as wood, jute, clay, and loam, and packs a payload of essential seeds, spores, water and nutrients. We’re talking the world’s largest seed bomb, one that will be able to renew the ecology of the European continent following imminent catastrophe.