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.
Ramie variation
Hongziyi Zhang
In order to construct a critical and more-than-human experience, a traditional rope making technique similar to make ramie yarn is used to make accessories for drinking. The steam wet the ramie fiber and irretate the ramie’ s scent diffusing. The scent becomes a key non-verbal message to make people to rethink the human-nature relationship: what is ramie ‘s meaning of life in its own view ? What about the meaning of our own life? How we co-exist with nature?
In order to construct a critical and more-than-human experience, a traditional rope making technique similar to make ramie yarn is used to make accessories for drinking. The steam wet the ramie fiber and irretate the ramie’ s scent diffusing. The scent becomes a key non-verbal message to make people to rethink the human-nature relationship: what is ramie ‘s meaning of life in its own view ? What about the meaning of our own life? How we co-exist with nature?