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.
EMBODIMEND (video)
DANAI NIKOLAIDI KOTSAKI
The idea of a system that mimics natural intelligence through artificial means led me to create the artwork “Embodiment”. Aiming to highlight the symbiotic relationships between Nature, like algae, bacteria, plants, fish, and Technology, a functional aquaponic system is developed. This closed-loop system uses fish waste to nourish plants (lettuce and other greens), creating an ecosystem where both fish and plants thrive. The fish produce waste that provides nutrients for the plants, while the plants purify the water, which is then returned clean to the fish. Within this natural cycle, the ceramic sculptures I’ve created provide surfaces for bacteria to inhabit, playing a crucial role in the water filtration process. The installation, questions whether nature’s inherent intelligence—its capacity for evolution, balance and regeneration—can be considered as a form of “artificial intelligence” in itself.
The idea of a system that mimics natural intelligence through artificial means led me to create the artwork “Embodiment”. Aiming to highlight the symbiotic relationships between Nature, like algae, bacteria, plants, fish, and Technology, a functional aquaponic system is developed. This closed-loop system uses fish waste to nourish plants (lettuce and other greens), creating an ecosystem where both fish and plants thrive. The fish produce waste that provides nutrients for the plants, while the plants purify the water, which is then returned clean to the fish. Within this natural cycle, the ceramic sculptures I’ve created provide surfaces for bacteria to inhabit, playing a crucial role in the water filtration process. The installation, questions whether nature’s inherent intelligence—its capacity for evolution, balance and regeneration—can be considered as a form of “artificial intelligence” in itself.