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.
Repopulate our streets
BERO Berenice Garnier
One alarming consequence of human activity is the disappearance of insects, precious for biodiversity. To bring awareness, I decided to symbolically repopulate one of Berlin's most grey and impersonal neighborhoods with a series of clay insects: bumblebees, beetles, ladybugs, and firebugs. Ceramics and urban hacking, Berlin, 2019-2020 I believe in the power of urban hacking to reach out to a local community and deliver a message because putting art in the urban space makes it accessible to anybody and potentially to a large audience. Small or bigger interventions can all have an impact at different scales: intrigue people, make them think, or even invite the public to participate and be a part of a larger movement such ad a new greening.
One alarming consequence of human activity is the disappearance of insects, precious for biodiversity. To bring awareness, I decided to symbolically repopulate one of Berlin's most grey and impersonal neighborhoods with a series of clay insects: bumblebees, beetles, ladybugs, and firebugs. Ceramics and urban hacking, Berlin, 2019-2020 I believe in the power of urban hacking to reach out to a local community and deliver a message because putting art in the urban space makes it accessible to anybody and potentially to a large audience. Small or bigger interventions can all have an impact at different scales: intrigue people, make them think, or even invite the public to participate and be a part of a larger movement such ad a new greening.