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.
Glimpse into the future
Mamieieva Yelyzaveta
“Glimpse of future” This artwork juxtaposes two pivotal maritime journeys that, despite sharing similar routes, tell contrasting stories about humanity's relationship with oceans. Inspired by Thor Heyerdahl's prophetic observation during his Kon-Tiki expedition and the later journey of The Plastiki, the piece is deliberately split into two temporal dimensions. The left side depicts the pure waters of the past, featuring the historic Kon-Tiki boat sailing through thriving marine ecosystems. All marine animals featured in the artwork are now critically endangered species, facing extinction due to ocean pollution and other human activities. In sharp contrast, the right side reveals our plastic-plagued present and looming future, showing The Plastiki - a catamaran built from 12,500 recycled plastic bottles - navigating through waters choked with debris. This diptych composition serves as both a historical document and an environmental warning, transforming Heyerdahl's haunting words 'I started out this voyage to get a glimpse into man's past, but I got just as much of a glimpse into man's future' into a visual narrative that challenges viewers to confront the devastating evolution of ocean's health.
“Glimpse of future” This artwork juxtaposes two pivotal maritime journeys that, despite sharing similar routes, tell contrasting stories about humanity's relationship with oceans. Inspired by Thor Heyerdahl's prophetic observation during his Kon-Tiki expedition and the later journey of The Plastiki, the piece is deliberately split into two temporal dimensions. The left side depicts the pure waters of the past, featuring the historic Kon-Tiki boat sailing through thriving marine ecosystems. All marine animals featured in the artwork are now critically endangered species, facing extinction due to ocean pollution and other human activities. In sharp contrast, the right side reveals our plastic-plagued present and looming future, showing The Plastiki - a catamaran built from 12,500 recycled plastic bottles - navigating through waters choked with debris. This diptych composition serves as both a historical document and an environmental warning, transforming Heyerdahl's haunting words 'I started out this voyage to get a glimpse into man's past, but I got just as much of a glimpse into man's future' into a visual narrative that challenges viewers to confront the devastating evolution of ocean's health.