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.
ARTRESEARCH
Barbara Ekstrom
Art, research, science and the creative mind needs to be in every process that concerns urban planning and the development of society. A routine for art- and researchbased methods in the official structures of exploiting land and planning processes secure sustainability for the planet and a healthier future for life on earth. This might seem obvious but today there is no structural routine that integrates art and science in urban planning witch results in decision based on short-term monetary gains, dense environments lacking green areas, weak ecosystem care and the use of not refundable recourses. As a result of this the urban population – more half of the worlds population (4.4 billion people) live their lives in areas that resembles to climate hostile traps. Artist, scientists, architects and designers of all kinds should be and integrated part of planningprocesses in order to create a healthy and climatfriendly cities and societies.
Art, research, science and the creative mind needs to be in every process that concerns urban planning and the development of society. A routine for art- and researchbased methods in the official structures of exploiting land and planning processes secure sustainability for the planet and a healthier future for life on earth. This might seem obvious but today there is no structural routine that integrates art and science in urban planning witch results in decision based on short-term monetary gains, dense environments lacking green areas, weak ecosystem care and the use of not refundable recourses. As a result of this the urban population – more half of the worlds population (4.4 billion people) live their lives in areas that resembles to climate hostile traps. Artist, scientists, architects and designers of all kinds should be and integrated part of planningprocesses in order to create a healthy and climatfriendly cities and societies.