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.
Fragments
Xiaoping Yu
Fragments explores the paradox of brokenness wholeness, while metaphorically reflecting the collapse and reshaping of marine ecosystems. The texture of the piece resembles the eroded structures of marine organisms, as if coral is bleaching, with plastic fragments and sea waves intertwining to form a scene that is both natural and heterogeneous. The visual effects of corrosion, dissolution, and reorganization symbolize how pollution erodes ecosystems, while also hinting at how nature seeks a new balance amidst destruction.
Fragments explores the paradox of brokenness wholeness, while metaphorically reflecting the collapse and reshaping of marine ecosystems. The texture of the piece resembles the eroded structures of marine organisms, as if coral is bleaching, with plastic fragments and sea waves intertwining to form a scene that is both natural and heterogeneous. The visual effects of corrosion, dissolution, and reorganization symbolize how pollution erodes ecosystems, while also hinting at how nature seeks a new balance amidst destruction.