Welcome to the Social Art Award 2025 – Online Gallery!
We are grateful for the many powerful contributions from artists across the globe. The selected works reflect the diversity of contemporary social art practices and address urgent issues such as climate and water crises, social and economic inequality, migration, conflict, discrimination, and the protection of human and more-than-human life.
Below you will find the submissions from the edition of 2024/2025 that passed the initial jury round. The Online Gallery offers public visibility to these works and supports dialogue around their themes; it does not replace the final jury decision.
Thank you to all artists for sharing your inspiring and committed work. We invite you to explore the gallery and engage with the perspectives shaping the Social Art Award 2025.
The Intricate Ways That Are Leading To Freedom
Ladislas Chachignot
This canvas painting uses symbolism to portray humanity’s connection to the aquatic world: a dress of waves, jellyfish-like hair. The figure’s passive pose reflects the inaction of some societies toward the environmental crisis. Animals and marine species are restrained by threads and locks, symbolizing how human inaction traps them in a cycle of harm. This work invites viewers to reflect on their role in breaking these chains to protect our oceans.
This canvas painting uses symbolism to portray humanity’s connection to the aquatic world: a dress of waves, jellyfish-like hair. The figure’s passive pose reflects the inaction of some societies toward the environmental crisis. Animals and marine species are restrained by threads and locks, symbolizing how human inaction traps them in a cycle of harm. This work invites viewers to reflect on their role in breaking these chains to protect our oceans.