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.
Paper Whale
Claudio Acuna Jimenez
The 'Paper Whales' project erects ephemeral monuments on the Chilean coast, life-size sculptures that commemorate the devastating whale hunt. Each whale, folded with the precision of origami, is a tribute to their beauty and vulnerability, and a denunciation of the persistent whaling. The series of whales built can be seen on the page https://cetaceosdeciudad.cl
The 'Paper Whales' project erects ephemeral monuments on the Chilean coast, life-size sculptures that commemorate the devastating whale hunt. Each whale, folded with the precision of origami, is a tribute to their beauty and vulnerability, and a denunciation of the persistent whaling. The series of whales built can be seen on the page https://cetaceosdeciudad.cl