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.
Terramare
Giulia Berra
Giulia Berra, Terramare, wood, glue, sea glass, approx. 11.5x7.5x6.5 cm (glass part approx. 7.5x6.5x7.8 cm) and approx. 17.5x6x6.3 cm (glass part: approx. 6x5.2x3 cm) 2013 The fragile pile dwelling town refers to bio architecture and to a dystopian future in which humanity faces the consequences of drought, ice melting and ocean rising. Terramare recalls the Bronze Age settlements (probably collapsed because of overpopulation, dryness and depletion of natural resources) where some houses were built upon piles, and in fact the little stilts seem to wait the water, while the top, made of ice-like sea glass, reminds the action of the sea over human artefacts.
Giulia Berra, Terramare, wood, glue, sea glass, approx. 11.5x7.5x6.5 cm (glass part approx. 7.5x6.5x7.8 cm) and approx. 17.5x6x6.3 cm (glass part: approx. 6x5.2x3 cm) 2013 The fragile pile dwelling town refers to bio architecture and to a dystopian future in which humanity faces the consequences of drought, ice melting and ocean rising. Terramare recalls the Bronze Age settlements (probably collapsed because of overpopulation, dryness and depletion of natural resources) where some houses were built upon piles, and in fact the little stilts seem to wait the water, while the top, made of ice-like sea glass, reminds the action of the sea over human artefacts.