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.
'Sueño de Ipanema'
NariVida
She is not just a woman. She is the ocean. Her skin pulsates with the blue of the waves, her eyes reflect the depths where the mystery of life - and its doom - lies. Her face cracks like drying reefs, splitting between dream and reality, between hope and inevitable fate. Flowers wrap around her face like the last whisper of nature - beautiful but vulnerable. Water and flesh melt into one, but is this symbiosis or already goodbye? Does the ocean still dream of humanity, or is it slowly forgetting our names? “Sueño de Ipanema” is a picture of longing. For what is perishing. For what can still be saved.
She is not just a woman. She is the ocean. Her skin pulsates with the blue of the waves, her eyes reflect the depths where the mystery of life - and its doom - lies. Her face cracks like drying reefs, splitting between dream and reality, between hope and inevitable fate. Flowers wrap around her face like the last whisper of nature - beautiful but vulnerable. Water and flesh melt into one, but is this symbiosis or already goodbye? Does the ocean still dream of humanity, or is it slowly forgetting our names? “Sueño de Ipanema” is a picture of longing. For what is perishing. For what can still be saved.