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.
Precarity
Max Wolf
An amalgamation of masked audiovisual captures of water whose translucences intimate its indispensability and its luster while veiling a more sinister implication; sharp, searing noise clashes with metallic rendering atop the obscured video imagery amidst a grayscale-dominant landscape which invokes infected water, invokes mercury, invokes the scathing deterioration of all that makes life sacred under the nefarious spectre of capital and within the insatiable belly of empire. A reel of dysphonic residual excrement amidst societal collapse.
An amalgamation of masked audiovisual captures of water whose translucences intimate its indispensability and its luster while veiling a more sinister implication; sharp, searing noise clashes with metallic rendering atop the obscured video imagery amidst a grayscale-dominant landscape which invokes infected water, invokes mercury, invokes the scathing deterioration of all that makes life sacred under the nefarious spectre of capital and within the insatiable belly of empire. A reel of dysphonic residual excrement amidst societal collapse.