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.
"Nature takes back its rights"
Katia Weyher
Katia Weyher, "Nature takes back its rights", drawing, 50x70cm, ink, color pencils, paper, 2020. The drawing responds to the theme of environmental protection. The pictorial message of this drawing ,is "alarm", "Nature takes back its rights" in an ironic way, the crocodile brings the sun flower back to the earth, covered with household garbage. The trash is depicted in a realistic manner to indicate the complexity of the situation:packaging of goods, colorful and attractive, just served to please, the next moment after use, they become a poisonous substance for our planet. If we wondered every time, looking at the elegant rows of goods in the store, how all this packaging, on which designers and technologists, chemists and engineers worked, would end up in a landfill. The author wants to hope that thinking about the fleetingness of packaging life will help people want to shop in minimal packaging.
Katia Weyher, "Nature takes back its rights", drawing, 50x70cm, ink, color pencils, paper, 2020. The drawing responds to the theme of environmental protection. The pictorial message of this drawing ,is "alarm", "Nature takes back its rights" in an ironic way, the crocodile brings the sun flower back to the earth, covered with household garbage. The trash is depicted in a realistic manner to indicate the complexity of the situation:packaging of goods, colorful and attractive, just served to please, the next moment after use, they become a poisonous substance for our planet. If we wondered every time, looking at the elegant rows of goods in the store, how all this packaging, on which designers and technologists, chemists and engineers worked, would end up in a landfill. The author wants to hope that thinking about the fleetingness of packaging life will help people want to shop in minimal packaging.