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.
Protective Seal
Elena Knox
Artist Elena Knox took a seal-shaped robot, Paro, on a real journey from its origin in Tokyo all the way “home” to an island near the North Pole — an enormous, poignant adventure for a robot who had never even been outdoors before. Along the way, the two spoke at length with many elders living in cold-climate communities, who shared with Paro how their lands and their technologies have changed over their lifetimes. Paro’s epic homecoming is presented as a 7-channel video installation. Collaborating with roboticists and public participants, this work aims to bring social awareness to the impact of global practices on the extreme cold landscapes of our shared Earth, before it is too late and even seals are no more. It does not vilify advanced technologies, but gently places as their ambassador a small robot who realises the irony of its casting as a harp seal and sets out in concern to research its own complicity in Arctic ill health. Paro’s goal is an interspecies harmonious existence.
Artist Elena Knox took a seal-shaped robot, Paro, on a real journey from its origin in Tokyo all the way “home” to an island near the North Pole — an enormous, poignant adventure for a robot who had never even been outdoors before. Along the way, the two spoke at length with many elders living in cold-climate communities, who shared with Paro how their lands and their technologies have changed over their lifetimes. Paro’s epic homecoming is presented as a 7-channel video installation. Collaborating with roboticists and public participants, this work aims to bring social awareness to the impact of global practices on the extreme cold landscapes of our shared Earth, before it is too late and even seals are no more. It does not vilify advanced technologies, but gently places as their ambassador a small robot who realises the irony of its casting as a harp seal and sets out in concern to research its own complicity in Arctic ill health. Paro’s goal is an interspecies harmonious existence.