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.
Abyss
Vincenzo Cohen
The artwork aims at raising public awareness through an impactful artistic message consisting in the representation of a biological composition linked to the preservation of waters. The painting aims also at the recovery of the historical tradition through the combination of different disciplines such as art of the territory, material recycling, ecology and eco-sustainability, biology, geology, history and archaeology. Historically, the marine nature describes this process of memories erosion that, resurfacing across the time from history, in the form of marine sedimentations, focuses on the sea, as a way of crossing, source of trade and crossroads of peoples. In the painting in fact the anthropic artefacts (such as rest of amphorae and wood fragments) represent the remains of a wreck lying at the bottom of the sea by testifying the passage and stratification of memories of ancient populations across the Mediterranean, their trades and traffics.
The artwork aims at raising public awareness through an impactful artistic message consisting in the representation of a biological composition linked to the preservation of waters. The painting aims also at the recovery of the historical tradition through the combination of different disciplines such as art of the territory, material recycling, ecology and eco-sustainability, biology, geology, history and archaeology. Historically, the marine nature describes this process of memories erosion that, resurfacing across the time from history, in the form of marine sedimentations, focuses on the sea, as a way of crossing, source of trade and crossroads of peoples. In the painting in fact the anthropic artefacts (such as rest of amphorae and wood fragments) represent the remains of a wreck lying at the bottom of the sea by testifying the passage and stratification of memories of ancient populations across the Mediterranean, their trades and traffics.