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.
Let It Breathe
Ladislas Chachignot
This digital painting explores in a creative and visual way the immense pressure of human activities on marine ecosystems. Often through oil extraction, industrial fishing, and maritime commerce. A human arm rising in the center of the composition holds a match, symbolizing humanity’s role in “setting fire” to the natural balance. This metaphor reflects how our actions trigger a chain reaction, disrupting ecosystems. The artwork calls for urgent awareness and action to restore harmony to our oceans.
This digital painting explores in a creative and visual way the immense pressure of human activities on marine ecosystems. Often through oil extraction, industrial fishing, and maritime commerce. A human arm rising in the center of the composition holds a match, symbolizing humanity’s role in “setting fire” to the natural balance. This metaphor reflects how our actions trigger a chain reaction, disrupting ecosystems. The artwork calls for urgent awareness and action to restore harmony to our oceans.