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.
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"Taurus"
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Title:
"Taurus"
"Taurus"
Author:
Ruth Biller
Ruth Biller
Description:
Between the stones the stars The project deals with processes between humans and nature in our time. Is there nature in the cities and what does it look like? What kind of relationship does they have with nature today? What is artificial nature? Is the creative process comparable to growth and development in nature? (Image1“Evas Cloud“) Where does wilderness begin for us? There are often fluid transitions, niches and parallel worlds that can only be discovered through careful observation. The question is deliberately aimed at sustainability. As an artist, I want to visually explore the fragility of ecosystems, and translate landscape, seasonal and climate-influenced changes into my own visual language using the means of painting."Between the stones the stars" poses the question of the poetry of the landscape and the origin of cultural, regional formal language. The search in the structures of the remains, historical, material and immaterial.What nature leaves us is a natural archive: traces and forms of topographical features in the landscape (image3 „Taurus“). For example, old arms of the formerly meandering river landscape. Protected floodplains. Abandoned industrial areas reclaimed by plants and animals. The main focus of research is the microcosm of the remains. What man, civilization, leaves behind is an archive of intervention: abandoned paths, dead agricultural land, landfills, former war sites,… The aim of the project is an exhibition of the works in connection with the contemporary questions posed, with a focus on sustainability. It is openly planned to present the works within cultural podiums in Germany and a neighboring country or in Bulgaria. There should be an open studio day. Using the means of painting and within my own visual language, I would like to question whether there are fundamental patterns between humans and nature(image2“Top Mountain“) that have a lasting effect beyond a visual archive. From the catastrophe of Pompeii to the present day, finds and remains have a fascinating effect on art. The value of our natural resource and its fragility should be illustrated in the project. Ruth Biller, Artist, Berlin
Between the stones the stars The project deals with processes between humans and nature in our time. Is there nature in the cities and what does it look like? What kind of relationship does they have with nature today? What is artificial nature? Is the creative process comparable to growth and development in nature? (Image1“Evas Cloud“) Where does wilderness begin for us? There are often fluid transitions, niches and parallel worlds that can only be discovered through careful observation. The question is deliberately aimed at sustainability. As an artist, I want to visually explore the fragility of ecosystems, and translate landscape, seasonal and climate-influenced changes into my own visual language using the means of painting."Between the stones the stars" poses the question of the poetry of the landscape and the origin of cultural, regional formal language. The search in the structures of the remains, historical, material and immaterial.What nature leaves us is a natural archive: traces and forms of topographical features in the landscape (image3 „Taurus“). For example, old arms of the formerly meandering river landscape. Protected floodplains. Abandoned industrial areas reclaimed by plants and animals. The main focus of research is the microcosm of the remains. What man, civilization, leaves behind is an archive of intervention: abandoned paths, dead agricultural land, landfills, former war sites,… The aim of the project is an exhibition of the works in connection with the contemporary questions posed, with a focus on sustainability. It is openly planned to present the works within cultural podiums in Germany and a neighboring country or in Bulgaria. There should be an open studio day. Using the means of painting and within my own visual language, I would like to question whether there are fundamental patterns between humans and nature(image2“Top Mountain“) that have a lasting effect beyond a visual archive. From the catastrophe of Pompeii to the present day, finds and remains have a fascinating effect on art. The value of our natural resource and its fragility should be illustrated in the project. Ruth Biller, Artist, Berlin
Description:
Between the stones the stars The project deals with processes between humans and nature in our time. Is there nature in the cities and what does it look like? What kind of relationship does they have with nature today? What is artificial nature? Is the creative process comparable to growth and development in nature? (Image1“Evas Cloud“) Where does wilderness begin for us? There are often fluid transitions, niches and parallel worlds that can only be discovered through careful observation. The question is deliberately aimed at sustainability. As an artist, I want to visually explore the fragility of ecosystems, and translate landscape, seasonal and climate-influenced changes into my own visual language using the means of painting."Between the stones the stars" poses the question of the poetry of the landscape and the origin of cultural, regional formal language. The search in the structures of the remains, historical, material and immaterial.What nature leaves us is a natural archive: traces and forms of topographical features in the landscape (image3 „Taurus“). For example, old arms of the formerly meandering river landscape. Protected floodplains. Abandoned industrial areas reclaimed by plants and animals. The main focus of research is the microcosm of the remains. What man, civilization, leaves behind is an archive of intervention: abandoned paths, dead agricultural land, landfills, former war sites,… The aim of the project is an exhibition of the works in connection with the contemporary questions posed, with a focus on sustainability. It is openly planned to present the works within cultural podiums in Germany and a neighboring country or in Bulgaria. There should be an open studio day. Using the means of painting and within my own visual language, I would like to question whether there are fundamental patterns between humans and nature(image2“Top Mountain“) that have a lasting effect beyond a visual archive. From the catastrophe of Pompeii to the present day, finds and remains have a fascinating effect on art. The value of our natural resource and its fragility should be illustrated in the project. Ruth Biller, Artist, Berlin
Between the stones the stars The project deals with processes between humans and nature in our time. Is there nature in the cities and what does it look like? What kind of relationship does they have with nature today? What is artificial nature? Is the creative process comparable to growth and development in nature? (Image1“Evas Cloud“) Where does wilderness begin for us? There are often fluid transitions, niches and parallel worlds that can only be discovered through careful observation. The question is deliberately aimed at sustainability. As an artist, I want to visually explore the fragility of ecosystems, and translate landscape, seasonal and climate-influenced changes into my own visual language using the means of painting."Between the stones the stars" poses the question of the poetry of the landscape and the origin of cultural, regional formal language. The search in the structures of the remains, historical, material and immaterial.What nature leaves us is a natural archive: traces and forms of topographical features in the landscape (image3 „Taurus“). For example, old arms of the formerly meandering river landscape. Protected floodplains. Abandoned industrial areas reclaimed by plants and animals. The main focus of research is the microcosm of the remains. What man, civilization, leaves behind is an archive of intervention: abandoned paths, dead agricultural land, landfills, former war sites,… The aim of the project is an exhibition of the works in connection with the contemporary questions posed, with a focus on sustainability. It is openly planned to present the works within cultural podiums in Germany and a neighboring country or in Bulgaria. There should be an open studio day. Using the means of painting and within my own visual language, I would like to question whether there are fundamental patterns between humans and nature(image2“Top Mountain“) that have a lasting effect beyond a visual archive. From the catastrophe of Pompeii to the present day, finds and remains have a fascinating effect on art. The value of our natural resource and its fragility should be illustrated in the project. Ruth Biller, Artist, Berlin