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.
dead aluminum blossom meadow - living, growing natural...
Gabriela Drees-Holz
Description Processed (cut, folded, crushed) parts of aluminum coffee capsules are glued to a black primed ball. The color scheme is cheerful and colorful as well as dark to black. At one point (approx. 20x15cm) "grow" out of it, different green and different lengths of plastic tubes. Impact generated The capsules are very appealing with their intense metallic colors. They also look happy and positive, as they are folded and cut in a very diverse range of flower shapes. So you can say that the ball looks aesthetically pleasing, cheerful, colorful, mysterious, but also threateningly dark in places. The green tubes loosen the “meadow” of flowers and point to change, a new beginning, to vegetal growth, to movement outwards, into the sky, a better future. Humans have created a new "better" world, with the well-known destruction and poisoning of the environment. Along with aluminum production, this includes the mining of bauxite, which has led to soil and water and even human poisoning. This work shows: the world of aluminum blossoms seems beautiful. But it is hostile to life, artificial, destroys nature more and more. But there are many movements that raise awareness of nature and still want to redirect the boat. I would like to represent that with the green plant seedlings that are growing. There is green hope. Let us nourish them and care for them and water them.
Description Processed (cut, folded, crushed) parts of aluminum coffee capsules are glued to a black primed ball. The color scheme is cheerful and colorful as well as dark to black. At one point (approx. 20x15cm) "grow" out of it, different green and different lengths of plastic tubes. Impact generated The capsules are very appealing with their intense metallic colors. They also look happy and positive, as they are folded and cut in a very diverse range of flower shapes. So you can say that the ball looks aesthetically pleasing, cheerful, colorful, mysterious, but also threateningly dark in places. The green tubes loosen the “meadow” of flowers and point to change, a new beginning, to vegetal growth, to movement outwards, into the sky, a better future. Humans have created a new "better" world, with the well-known destruction and poisoning of the environment. Along with aluminum production, this includes the mining of bauxite, which has led to soil and water and even human poisoning. This work shows: the world of aluminum blossoms seems beautiful. But it is hostile to life, artificial, destroys nature more and more. But there are many movements that raise awareness of nature and still want to redirect the boat. I would like to represent that with the green plant seedlings that are growing. There is green hope. Let us nourish them and care for them and water them.