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.
Open Air
Stephen Glassman
Open Air is an artwork that re-imagines and transforms billboards — a prime symbol of urban commercial messaging — into beautiful, suspended, living bamboo gardens, networked environmental monitors, and a water generation system serving as an urban spring. It is literally a gesture that simultaneously disrupts and serves – a living public clarion call for the most pressing issue of our time. Open Air is taking an infrastructure that’s only providing a vehicle for advertising, and turning it into something that contributes to the city. Once you get this right, technically, environmentally — this is the kind of thing that can be rolled out anywhere.
Open Air is an artwork that re-imagines and transforms billboards — a prime symbol of urban commercial messaging — into beautiful, suspended, living bamboo gardens, networked environmental monitors, and a water generation system serving as an urban spring. It is literally a gesture that simultaneously disrupts and serves – a living public clarion call for the most pressing issue of our time. Open Air is taking an infrastructure that’s only providing a vehicle for advertising, and turning it into something that contributes to the city. Once you get this right, technically, environmentally — this is the kind of thing that can be rolled out anywhere.