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:
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Shortlisted artists (TOP 10) will be announced by mid-June.
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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.
Mykobütten Spores
Tanja Major
In my pioneering work as a paper artist, I explore the innovative transformation of 100% mushrooms into paper fibers. Handmade mushroom paper, colored with mushroom pigments – I call it "mycopaper." I use various techniques of handmade papermaking, such as the Japanese washi technique. I create these from mushrooms using my experiences, ideas, and new design possibilities. Mushrooms, including polypores, trametes, and many more, are the essential and primary substance in my creative process. Their pigments expand my expressiveness. They provide me with a natural material that is very vibrant and inspiring. This creates unusual structures and haptics, sometimes rough, creamy, padded, stable, but also brittle or parchment-like. My works depict microscopically large-scale structures from the mycological world – the world of fungi.
In my pioneering work as a paper artist, I explore the innovative transformation of 100% mushrooms into paper fibers. Handmade mushroom paper, colored with mushroom pigments – I call it "mycopaper." I use various techniques of handmade papermaking, such as the Japanese washi technique. I create these from mushrooms using my experiences, ideas, and new design possibilities. Mushrooms, including polypores, trametes, and many more, are the essential and primary substance in my creative process. Their pigments expand my expressiveness. They provide me with a natural material that is very vibrant and inspiring. This creates unusual structures and haptics, sometimes rough, creamy, padded, stable, but also brittle or parchment-like. My works depict microscopically large-scale structures from the mycological world – the world of fungi.