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.
Moss Signs
Gilbert Geister
A mixture of moss and nutrient solution is fixed to the back side of traffic signs. After some weeks vertical moss carpets emerge, which form aesthetic surfaces. Even though moss is very undemanding it improves the air quality clearly. As there are about 20 million! traffic signs only in Germany this project is well suited to be combined with guerrilla art strategies. ‘Moss Signs’ is both an artistic and an ecological statement and it could have a significant effect on oxygen production and reduction of pollution in inner cities.
A mixture of moss and nutrient solution is fixed to the back side of traffic signs. After some weeks vertical moss carpets emerge, which form aesthetic surfaces. Even though moss is very undemanding it improves the air quality clearly. As there are about 20 million! traffic signs only in Germany this project is well suited to be combined with guerrilla art strategies. ‘Moss Signs’ is both an artistic and an ecological statement and it could have a significant effect on oxygen production and reduction of pollution in inner cities.