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.
wait and sea
Anja Witt
As an artist and former oceanographer, I find it frightening how long it takes to translate research findings into political and human action. The warming of the oceans as a result of man-made global warming has an enormous impact on the ecology and circulation of the oceans. Although we know the connections, we are failing to change our thinking. Waiting and sitting it out is not a solution, but I would like to dramatize this with my object. Small figures sit on the edge of an ice floe in everyday clothes, what are they waiting for? Object is made of wood box, styrofoam, model figures, acrylic paint. Height 12 cm, width 15 cm, depth 15 cm, 2025
As an artist and former oceanographer, I find it frightening how long it takes to translate research findings into political and human action. The warming of the oceans as a result of man-made global warming has an enormous impact on the ecology and circulation of the oceans. Although we know the connections, we are failing to change our thinking. Waiting and sitting it out is not a solution, but I would like to dramatize this with my object. Small figures sit on the edge of an ice floe in everyday clothes, what are they waiting for? Object is made of wood box, styrofoam, model figures, acrylic paint. Height 12 cm, width 15 cm, depth 15 cm, 2025