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.
Echoes of the Drowned
Maryna Gradnova
2025. Ink on paper. 420mm x 295mm. A powerful visual narrative of vanished coastal communities and lost biodiversity, portrayed through a fusion of ghostly human figures interwoven with marine species. These spectral beings—fishermen, children, coral reefs—float in the depths, their outlines dissolving into water. Ink drips like oil spills, forming a dialogue between destruction and resilience. Bioluminescent accents illuminate symbols of rebirth, from new coral growth to rising kelp forests. « What vanishes, lingers. This piece reminds us of what we have lost and what we still have the power to protect ».
2025. Ink on paper. 420mm x 295mm. A powerful visual narrative of vanished coastal communities and lost biodiversity, portrayed through a fusion of ghostly human figures interwoven with marine species. These spectral beings—fishermen, children, coral reefs—float in the depths, their outlines dissolving into water. Ink drips like oil spills, forming a dialogue between destruction and resilience. Bioluminescent accents illuminate symbols of rebirth, from new coral growth to rising kelp forests. « What vanishes, lingers. This piece reminds us of what we have lost and what we still have the power to protect ».