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.
Human Diary
Elmar Hess
"Human Diary" is an interdisciplinary installation of films, photographs, and fictional artifacts. The work is a reflection of the present, described from the perspective of a child who fears for his future: the consequences of environmental destruction seem to be putting all existence and ultimately the survival of humankind themselves into perspective. The project reflects the child's fate in his family situation. Worn down by frequent conflicts between his parents, the child takes refuge in a fantasy world, a game between fact and fiction, which makes family life appear in a more global dimension: In the child's imagination, the private conflicts become social controversies that underlie current political, social and ecological dilemmas. The ongoing destruction of the ecosystem is demonstrated in the installation project through a performance. It focuses on the development of the child and a great passion that it has: dancing. Through the child's dance, the work symbolically conveys the fate of the earth through the expansion of humanity.
"Human Diary" is an interdisciplinary installation of films, photographs, and fictional artifacts. The work is a reflection of the present, described from the perspective of a child who fears for his future: the consequences of environmental destruction seem to be putting all existence and ultimately the survival of humankind themselves into perspective. The project reflects the child's fate in his family situation. Worn down by frequent conflicts between his parents, the child takes refuge in a fantasy world, a game between fact and fiction, which makes family life appear in a more global dimension: In the child's imagination, the private conflicts become social controversies that underlie current political, social and ecological dilemmas. The ongoing destruction of the ecosystem is demonstrated in the installation project through a performance. It focuses on the development of the child and a great passion that it has: dancing. Through the child's dance, the work symbolically conveys the fate of the earth through the expansion of humanity.