Welcome to the Social Art Award 2025 – Online Gallery!
🌊 Dear friends of art and transformation, 🌊
A heartfelt thank you to all artists and creatives who submitted their powerful works for this year’s Social Art Award under the theme: “Planetary Healing – Blue Tribes for Ocean Health.” Your inspiring visions speak to ocean restoration, biodiversity, and reimagining our coexistence with all life forms on Earth.
After receiving 922 submissions from across all continents, and concluding a very active public voting phase, the Social Art Award now enters its next chapter:
🔹 What’s next?
The professional jury panel is currently reviewing and selecting the TOP 100 entries that will be featured in the official Social Art Award 2025 book. In parallel, the two public voting winners will move forward as wildcards into the final jury round.
🔹 Coming up:
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Shortlisted artists (TOP 10) will be announced by mid-June.
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Winners of the Social Art Award 2025 will be revealed at our Online Award Ceremony on July 2, 2025.
We invite you to stay connected as we celebrate the power of Social Art to drive dialogue, awareness, and collective transformation.
Let’s continue to amplify art as a force for Planetary Healing.
Be Yourself
Ozlem Mehder
‘’Be Yourself’’ is a work that advises us to find our inner strength even in the worst conditions. This work tries to convey this message by taking inspiration from nature. The image of dried soil in the work symbolizes a lake whose water has been drained. I drew the female figure by taking inspiration from myself. The wave pattern covering the woman’s entire body reflects the water of this lake. I think that even in conditions that we consider very difficult, we can still find details in ourselves that will remind us of ourselves. Perhaps the waves on the woman will give life to this dried lake again in time. I believe that nature is a very important key that will help us find the power within us. Because we are all a part of nature. However, we are rapidly moving away from nature under the name of modernization. Most of us spend our days among concrete. The age we live in makes us mechanical. We are forced to deny the roots of our existence among concrete. We need nature: We have to protect it.
‘’Be Yourself’’ is a work that advises us to find our inner strength even in the worst conditions. This work tries to convey this message by taking inspiration from nature. The image of dried soil in the work symbolizes a lake whose water has been drained. I drew the female figure by taking inspiration from myself. The wave pattern covering the woman’s entire body reflects the water of this lake. I think that even in conditions that we consider very difficult, we can still find details in ourselves that will remind us of ourselves. Perhaps the waves on the woman will give life to this dried lake again in time. I believe that nature is a very important key that will help us find the power within us. Because we are all a part of nature. However, we are rapidly moving away from nature under the name of modernization. Most of us spend our days among concrete. The age we live in makes us mechanical. We are forced to deny the roots of our existence among concrete. We need nature: We have to protect it.