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.
Statue of Liberty’s Last Tide: A Call for Planetary...
Sanyam Bajaj
The future hinges on the choices we make today. The Statue of Liberty, a timeless emblem of hope and resilience, stands against a fiery sunset—her silhouette unwavering yet haunted by encroaching waves of smoke and shadow. This uneasy juxtaposition of beauty and foreboding speaks to the fragile state of our world. What we see is not just the fading light of a day but the dimming of a future that hangs in the balance. From the deck of the Staten Island Ferry—where movement and connection shape our perspective—the waters remain calm for now. But how long until they rise beyond control, swallowing not just the shores of New York but the ideals this monument embodies? The dark waves swelling in the sky serve as a spectre of climate change, a warning of floods, pollution, and rising tides that threaten to consume our past, our present, and our collective future.
The future hinges on the choices we make today. The Statue of Liberty, a timeless emblem of hope and resilience, stands against a fiery sunset—her silhouette unwavering yet haunted by encroaching waves of smoke and shadow. This uneasy juxtaposition of beauty and foreboding speaks to the fragile state of our world. What we see is not just the fading light of a day but the dimming of a future that hangs in the balance. From the deck of the Staten Island Ferry—where movement and connection shape our perspective—the waters remain calm for now. But how long until they rise beyond control, swallowing not just the shores of New York but the ideals this monument embodies? The dark waves swelling in the sky serve as a spectre of climate change, a warning of floods, pollution, and rising tides that threaten to consume our past, our present, and our collective future.