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.
Telltales of Tide and Terra
Azra Aksamija
This installation creates a visual dialogue between human collective wisdom and plant intelligence across ocean (Tide) and land (Terra) ecosystems. Using traditional shibori indigo dyeing techniques—representing ancestral human knowledge of working with nature—each textile becomes a conversation between human craft intelligence and plant adaptive strategies. Each textile documents the regenerative intelligence systems of marine plants—seagrasses that purify water, algae that sequester carbon, coral symbionts that build reefs—alongside terrestrial flora's complementary healing strategies. The flowing indigo patterns, created through collaborative community dyeing workshops, represent how coastal "Blue Tribes" have historically learned from and honored these plant networks as guardians of planetary well-being. By combining traditional textile techniques with scientific visualization of plant communication systems, the installation honors the "Blue Tribes"—both human communities and plant networks—that maintain ocean health through their interconnected intelligence. This living archive invites viewers to recognize themselves as part of this collaborative healing network spanning tide and terra.
This installation creates a visual dialogue between human collective wisdom and plant intelligence across ocean (Tide) and land (Terra) ecosystems. Using traditional shibori indigo dyeing techniques—representing ancestral human knowledge of working with nature—each textile becomes a conversation between human craft intelligence and plant adaptive strategies. Each textile documents the regenerative intelligence systems of marine plants—seagrasses that purify water, algae that sequester carbon, coral symbionts that build reefs—alongside terrestrial flora's complementary healing strategies. The flowing indigo patterns, created through collaborative community dyeing workshops, represent how coastal "Blue Tribes" have historically learned from and honored these plant networks as guardians of planetary well-being. By combining traditional textile techniques with scientific visualization of plant communication systems, the installation honors the "Blue Tribes"—both human communities and plant networks—that maintain ocean health through their interconnected intelligence. This living archive invites viewers to recognize themselves as part of this collaborative healing network spanning tide and terra.