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.
NURTURING WEEPING WATERS FOR CREATING CULTURAL CURRENTS
Jose Miguel Vasquez
My painting is a celebration of planetary healing, bursting with color, movement, and life. At the center, an Indigenous woman cradles the Earth, holding it close as if to nuture, to protect and restore it. The Earth´s oceans are deep and blue, carrying both the sorrow of past damage and the hope of renewal. Symbolism abounds in the piece art, music, acting, and dance flow through the scene, blending with nature—flowers bloom, a bee hovers, a skeleton stands as a quiet reminder of both loss and rebirth. Insects, reptiles, and a bird are integrated in painting, part of the same rhythm as the stars and moon; night versus the gloden dayligh of the sun above. Ancient architecture, astrology, literature, and drama surround the woman and the natural world, showing how culture and nature are inseparable. In the right hand corner a lap top is present, giving a wink to technology today too. The piece pulses with energy, a reminder of healing is possible when we respect, honor the Earth´s oceans and the culture which spring from a healthy, happy planet .
My painting is a celebration of planetary healing, bursting with color, movement, and life. At the center, an Indigenous woman cradles the Earth, holding it close as if to nuture, to protect and restore it. The Earth´s oceans are deep and blue, carrying both the sorrow of past damage and the hope of renewal. Symbolism abounds in the piece art, music, acting, and dance flow through the scene, blending with nature—flowers bloom, a bee hovers, a skeleton stands as a quiet reminder of both loss and rebirth. Insects, reptiles, and a bird are integrated in painting, part of the same rhythm as the stars and moon; night versus the gloden dayligh of the sun above. Ancient architecture, astrology, literature, and drama surround the woman and the natural world, showing how culture and nature are inseparable. In the right hand corner a lap top is present, giving a wink to technology today too. The piece pulses with energy, a reminder of healing is possible when we respect, honor the Earth´s oceans and the culture which spring from a healthy, happy planet .