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.
Hydrate - The lab
Peter Trukenbrod
Nature is the source of all chemistry. Exploitation of the recourses of earth and industrial production has turned chemical compounds to a main cause of violation of the environments in the oceans, harmful to the Blue Tribes. The chemical procedure that nature itself produces is the very base of conditions for life. In the lab of nature humans are cooperating with the chemistry that once gave birth to mankind and life on earth. The artwork suggest that the work in this lab should be done on natures own terms. This idea is symbolized by a number of chemical flasks created from pieces of glass collected from sea. The shards have been carried back to the shore by the waves and then carefully put together again to new shapes and forms created by the human hand.
Nature is the source of all chemistry. Exploitation of the recourses of earth and industrial production has turned chemical compounds to a main cause of violation of the environments in the oceans, harmful to the Blue Tribes. The chemical procedure that nature itself produces is the very base of conditions for life. In the lab of nature humans are cooperating with the chemistry that once gave birth to mankind and life on earth. The artwork suggest that the work in this lab should be done on natures own terms. This idea is symbolized by a number of chemical flasks created from pieces of glass collected from sea. The shards have been carried back to the shore by the waves and then carefully put together again to new shapes and forms created by the human hand.