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.
Do Not Give Into Despair
Sophie Florence Mullins-Poole
I have been using the quantum atom, cell, and subatomic particle as a point of reference, through which to abstract and scale fundamental materialities of our worlds. Electrons in the orbit of a nucleus are bound to an insistent wandering, our fundamental atomic reality is incapable of remaining static, change and tranformation are practiced in the innate mechanics of our being. I found it deeply comforting to understand our macroscopic social processes through the formative threads that weave us, particulalrly in and amongst the catastrophising and fear-mongering that are so prevalent in the socio-poltical systems we find ourselves in. In order to care for our ecosystemic relations we cannot fall into despair or heed the fearmonger, we have to continue to act, and continue the task of hoping.
I have been using the quantum atom, cell, and subatomic particle as a point of reference, through which to abstract and scale fundamental materialities of our worlds. Electrons in the orbit of a nucleus are bound to an insistent wandering, our fundamental atomic reality is incapable of remaining static, change and tranformation are practiced in the innate mechanics of our being. I found it deeply comforting to understand our macroscopic social processes through the formative threads that weave us, particulalrly in and amongst the catastrophising and fear-mongering that are so prevalent in the socio-poltical systems we find ourselves in. In order to care for our ecosystemic relations we cannot fall into despair or heed the fearmonger, we have to continue to act, and continue the task of hoping.