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.
Flourishing-in-symbiosis
Ryo Kajitani
This explores the complexity of Computational Nature, where algorithms generate order from noise/chaos. This dense jungle, created via digital collage using woodcut methods—an analogy for physical carving introducing digital resistance—explores creative, ambivalent tension between controlled algorithms & unpredictable natural energy. Anchored in material reality by the giclée print, this garden offers a thinking/prayer space & circuit for self-encounter to navigate the future's hope and anxiety, prompting thought on our algorithms-interconnected future.
This explores the complexity of Computational Nature, where algorithms generate order from noise/chaos. This dense jungle, created via digital collage using woodcut methods—an analogy for physical carving introducing digital resistance—explores creative, ambivalent tension between controlled algorithms & unpredictable natural energy. Anchored in material reality by the giclée print, this garden offers a thinking/prayer space & circuit for self-encounter to navigate the future's hope and anxiety, prompting thought on our algorithms-interconnected future.