Welcome to the Social Art Award 2025 – Online Gallery!
🌊 Dear friends of art and transformation, 🌊
A heartfelt thank you to all artists and creatives who submitted their powerful works for this year’s Social Art Award under the theme: “Planetary Healing – Blue Tribes for Ocean Health.” Your inspiring visions speak to ocean restoration, biodiversity, and reimagining our coexistence with all life forms on Earth.
After receiving 922 submissions from across all continents, and concluding a very active public voting phase, the Social Art Award now enters its next chapter:
🔹 What’s next?
The professional jury panel is currently reviewing and selecting the TOP 100 entries that will be featured in the official Social Art Award 2025 book. In parallel, the two public voting winners will move forward as wildcards into the final jury round.
🔹 Coming up:
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Shortlisted artists (TOP 10) will be announced by mid-June.
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Winners of the Social Art Award 2025 will be revealed at our Online Award Ceremony on July 2, 2025.
We invite you to stay connected as we celebrate the power of Social Art to drive dialogue, awareness, and collective transformation.
Let’s continue to amplify art as a force for Planetary Healing.
Between changing and being changed
guojun tian
With the development of society and the comprehensive construction and coverage of industrialization and the digital era, the available land for humans is gradually shrinking. To meet the needs of construction and development, we have had to take certain "measures" for expansion. However, in this process of rapid development, we have also overlooked the delayed "drawbacks" caused by these methods. On this ancient and biologically diverse planet, our old "friends" are quietly disappearing — species extinction caused by habitat destruction, human hunting, and the inability to survive due to environmental changes. According to incomplete statistics, nearly 40,000 species worldwide are currently facing the threat of extinction. Meanwhile, just like humans, these species fear death but are forced to confront reality. This work aims to reflect on the relationship between humans and biodiversity. When our "friends" eventually all pass away, we are left facing a single answer — death. Just as when we gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back at us. The television placed in the wooden box is set below the conventional range of sight, requiring viewers to bend down or squat to see inside. This design choice is intended to convey the idea that humans and other species on Earth exist in a state of "equality" or near-equality, rather than at the "top" of a pyramid. It also subtly suggests the true position of humans within nature.
With the development of society and the comprehensive construction and coverage of industrialization and the digital era, the available land for humans is gradually shrinking. To meet the needs of construction and development, we have had to take certain "measures" for expansion. However, in this process of rapid development, we have also overlooked the delayed "drawbacks" caused by these methods. On this ancient and biologically diverse planet, our old "friends" are quietly disappearing — species extinction caused by habitat destruction, human hunting, and the inability to survive due to environmental changes. According to incomplete statistics, nearly 40,000 species worldwide are currently facing the threat of extinction. Meanwhile, just like humans, these species fear death but are forced to confront reality. This work aims to reflect on the relationship between humans and biodiversity. When our "friends" eventually all pass away, we are left facing a single answer — death. Just as when we gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back at us. The television placed in the wooden box is set below the conventional range of sight, requiring viewers to bend down or squat to see inside. This design choice is intended to convey the idea that humans and other species on Earth exist in a state of "equality" or near-equality, rather than at the "top" of a pyramid. It also subtly suggests the true position of humans within nature.