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.
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YU HAO
The work ING is inspired by anxiety over future career choices. In this piece, I fictionalized five childhood fantasies about future professions. Teenagers are often influenced by their parents' career planning and the mainstream standards of success in society. This "designed" life trajectory leaves them feeling pressured and confused when it comes to making actual career decisions. In career planning, young people are easily swayed by external aesthetics, which limits their choices and even "formats" them. Behind these career fantasies lies a yearning for self-awareness. Extreme sports allow people to experience the limits of body and mind, while fashion serves as a means of self-expression. Contemporary youth seek, through these fields, brief moments of self-recognition and release in the midst of confusion.
The work ING is inspired by anxiety over future career choices. In this piece, I fictionalized five childhood fantasies about future professions. Teenagers are often influenced by their parents' career planning and the mainstream standards of success in society. This "designed" life trajectory leaves them feeling pressured and confused when it comes to making actual career decisions. In career planning, young people are easily swayed by external aesthetics, which limits their choices and even "formats" them. Behind these career fantasies lies a yearning for self-awareness. Extreme sports allow people to experience the limits of body and mind, while fashion serves as a means of self-expression. Contemporary youth seek, through these fields, brief moments of self-recognition and release in the midst of confusion.