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.
An Arctic Intermedia Installation
Kat ROMA GREER Alan OLEJNICZAK Rachel HONNERY
Summer’s End is a 15 minute, three-channel multi-sensory, multi-disciplinary installation that transforms captured artistic responses into an immersive experience of mourning, reflection, and ecological awakening. Through a curation of Arctic visualisations, original poetry, and a bespoke commissioned musical composition, the project bridges the gap between empirical understanding and emotional comprehension of climate disruption and its effect on our oceans, including shifting of currents, contribution to ocean acidification, wildlife dependent on sea ice, perishing and disrupting coastal communities. In response to the urgent need for ocean restoration and biodiversity protection, Summer’s End engages multiple sensory modalities, bridging the gap between empirical understanding and emotional comprehension, inspiring a sustained desire for preservation and action. Tolstoy wrote: “One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken.” This work contributes to reforging that link.
Summer’s End is a 15 minute, three-channel multi-sensory, multi-disciplinary installation that transforms captured artistic responses into an immersive experience of mourning, reflection, and ecological awakening. Through a curation of Arctic visualisations, original poetry, and a bespoke commissioned musical composition, the project bridges the gap between empirical understanding and emotional comprehension of climate disruption and its effect on our oceans, including shifting of currents, contribution to ocean acidification, wildlife dependent on sea ice, perishing and disrupting coastal communities. In response to the urgent need for ocean restoration and biodiversity protection, Summer’s End engages multiple sensory modalities, bridging the gap between empirical understanding and emotional comprehension, inspiring a sustained desire for preservation and action. Tolstoy wrote: “One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken.” This work contributes to reforging that link.