Welcome to the Social Art Award 2025 – Online Gallery!
🌊 Dear friends of art and transformation, 🌊
A heartfelt thank you to all artists and creatives who submitted their powerful works for this year’s Social Art Award under the theme: “Planetary Healing – Blue Tribes for Ocean Health.” Your inspiring visions speak to ocean restoration, biodiversity, and reimagining our coexistence with all life forms on Earth.
After receiving 922 submissions from across all continents, and concluding a very active public voting phase, the Social Art Award now enters its next chapter:
🔹 What’s next?
The professional jury panel is currently reviewing and selecting the TOP 100 entries that will be featured in the official Social Art Award 2025 book. In parallel, the two public voting winners will move forward as wildcards into the final jury round.
🔹 Coming up:
-
Shortlisted artists (TOP 10) will be announced by mid-June.
-
Winners of the Social Art Award 2025 will be revealed at our Online Award Ceremony on July 2, 2025.
We invite you to stay connected as we celebrate the power of Social Art to drive dialogue, awareness, and collective transformation.
Let’s continue to amplify art as a force for Planetary Healing.
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 This diptych composition serves as both a historical document and an environmental warning, transforming Heyerdahl's haunting words 'I started out this voyage to get a glimpse into man's past, but I got just as much of a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.