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.
Message in A Bottle
O. Yemi Tubi
This painting was influenced by the negative reaction of some climate change denials of world leaders to the Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg’s speeches and other people who think that climate change activists are a nuisance that likes to disrupt the smooth running of their day-to-day lives by their activism. These Climate Change denials may wish to put the climate change activists in a bottle, cork it and throw the bottle in the ocean so as not to hear the ranting of the climate change activists and continue their climate-destructive habits. Take out the bottles from the ocean, uncork the bottles, uncork your ears, hearken to the message in the bottles and change the habit that causes climate change. The ocean creatures are choking and dying from pollution of humans’ waste. Cleaning up the ocean safes ocean creatures and our planet. Hearken to the urgent plea of our children- SAVE OUR PLANET.
This painting was influenced by the negative reaction of some climate change denials of world leaders to the Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg’s speeches and other people who think that climate change activists are a nuisance that likes to disrupt the smooth running of their day-to-day lives by their activism. These Climate Change denials may wish to put the climate change activists in a bottle, cork it and throw the bottle in the ocean so as not to hear the ranting of the climate change activists and continue their climate-destructive habits. Take out the bottles from the ocean, uncork the bottles, uncork your ears, hearken to the message in the bottles and change the habit that causes climate change. The ocean creatures are choking and dying from pollution of humans’ waste. Cleaning up the ocean safes ocean creatures and our planet. Hearken to the urgent plea of our children- SAVE OUR PLANET.