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.
WE HAVE A CHOICE’
Ulyana Zavyalova
Title: ‘WE HAVE A CHOICE’ Materials: Encaustic & mixed media collage on wood Size: 80cm x 60cm x 2cm Year: 2021 We can’t predict the future, but scenarios allow us to explore possible futures and the courses of action that could bring them about. We have a choice: to live and build the truly sustainable future or to exist in technological dystopia. Art reflects and creates social realities. This is why artists share a responsibility for that which is socially perceived as normal. That concerns especially the question of how we interact with each other and with our natural livelihoods – both in our direct surroundings as well as globally. As a member of Fridays for future and Artists for future movements I try to raise awareness about the importance of rational use of natural resources and human damage to the environment as a result of uncontrolled consumption.
Title: ‘WE HAVE A CHOICE’ Materials: Encaustic & mixed media collage on wood Size: 80cm x 60cm x 2cm Year: 2021 We can’t predict the future, but scenarios allow us to explore possible futures and the courses of action that could bring them about. We have a choice: to live and build the truly sustainable future or to exist in technological dystopia. Art reflects and creates social realities. This is why artists share a responsibility for that which is socially perceived as normal. That concerns especially the question of how we interact with each other and with our natural livelihoods – both in our direct surroundings as well as globally. As a member of Fridays for future and Artists for future movements I try to raise awareness about the importance of rational use of natural resources and human damage to the environment as a result of uncontrolled consumption.