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.
Plant me a Garden
Studio Flyaway
These miniature gardens are reused, repurposed and up-cycled polystyrene (styrofoam) debris collected from the Gulf of Mexico. Each piece of polystyrene is planted with lettuce, providing a vessel for growing that insulates, reflects heat, holds water and is reusable while keeping the material out of landfills and waterways. Creating gardens with polystyrene could help create greener cities by providing free, light weight gardening materials for container gardening. This could be a great benefit to city dwellers short on space and protect the environment at the same time.
These miniature gardens are reused, repurposed and up-cycled polystyrene (styrofoam) debris collected from the Gulf of Mexico. Each piece of polystyrene is planted with lettuce, providing a vessel for growing that insulates, reflects heat, holds water and is reusable while keeping the material out of landfills and waterways. Creating gardens with polystyrene could help create greener cities by providing free, light weight gardening materials for container gardening. This could be a great benefit to city dwellers short on space and protect the environment at the same time.