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.
A piece of violece
Lea Hohn
The installation is made up of old Christmas trees hanging upside down from the ceiling. The trees are found with their arms cut off. A red line is stretched between the stubs of the trees. It resembles a crime pin board. An image of a perpetrator and a victim is created. The red coloured string symbolises the urgency and importance of the continued discourse. The installation is not in the setting of the average white cube, the surrounding of the trees is unclear, which leads the viewer to make their own references. The work shows an act full of violence performed by humans against nature. As the red string shows that the discourse of biodiversity has to be brought up every day, so the dots between environmental damages and sustainability can be connected. The installation inspires for a change to be made by human-beings.
The installation is made up of old Christmas trees hanging upside down from the ceiling. The trees are found with their arms cut off. A red line is stretched between the stubs of the trees. It resembles a crime pin board. An image of a perpetrator and a victim is created. The red coloured string symbolises the urgency and importance of the continued discourse. The installation is not in the setting of the average white cube, the surrounding of the trees is unclear, which leads the viewer to make their own references. The work shows an act full of violence performed by humans against nature. As the red string shows that the discourse of biodiversity has to be brought up every day, so the dots between environmental damages and sustainability can be connected. The installation inspires for a change to be made by human-beings.