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.
Bowhead, Whale and Beluga in Arctic Ocean
Daria Koshkina
Bowhead, Whale, and Beluga in the Arctic Ocean This data art image represents the movements of three Arctic Ocean marine species: Walrus, Bowhead whale, and Beluga Whale. In the abstract wholeness of the ocean, we see a polar projection of their movements, where each dot represents the place wherethe Happywhales team spotted the animal. Data Happywhale - BHappywhale. 2024. Happywhale - Bowhead in Arctic Ocean. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1769) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Happywhale.com. https://doi.org/10.15468/rfb6ep accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-03-06. https://www.gbif.org/dataset/1e5e5948-c599-47ae-b6a2-f1bbf749c3a7 Happywhale. 2024. Happywhale - Beluga in Arctic Ocean. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1724) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Happywhale.com. https://doi.org/10.15468/a6kdag accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-03-11. Happywhale. 2022. Happywhale - Walrus in Arctic Ocean. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2013) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Happywhale.com. https://doi.org/10.15468/9vzwfv accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-03-11. More images of the series can be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10TA5oCCitZ_ISCgOjEBwyDkRzgdCcuuE?usp=sharing
Bowhead, Whale, and Beluga in the Arctic Ocean This data art image represents the movements of three Arctic Ocean marine species: Walrus, Bowhead whale, and Beluga Whale. In the abstract wholeness of the ocean, we see a polar projection of their movements, where each dot represents the place wherethe Happywhales team spotted the animal. Data Happywhale - BHappywhale. 2024. Happywhale - Bowhead in Arctic Ocean. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1769) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Happywhale.com. https://doi.org/10.15468/rfb6ep accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-03-06. https://www.gbif.org/dataset/1e5e5948-c599-47ae-b6a2-f1bbf749c3a7 Happywhale. 2024. Happywhale - Beluga in Arctic Ocean. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1724) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Happywhale.com. https://doi.org/10.15468/a6kdag accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-03-11. Happywhale. 2022. Happywhale - Walrus in Arctic Ocean. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2013) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Happywhale.com. https://doi.org/10.15468/9vzwfv accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-03-11. More images of the series can be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10TA5oCCitZ_ISCgOjEBwyDkRzgdCcuuE?usp=sharing