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.
Nets
Orna Hodara Hatzor
"Nets" is an installation composed from three large sheets of paper made from poured kozo poured pulp on a 80x180 mesh mould covered with fish nets. The kozo pulp was mixed with seaweeds and dyed with various blue textile pigments. A small ceramic shaped boat is placed on plastic crates with the latin statement; Quid Tum, that loosely means "so what", with the addition of a question mark - Quid Tum? = So What? Within the small boat is a collage of massacred individuals from around the world. The work "Nets" addresses the effect of overfishing around the world, that has been exploiting the diverse richness of the underwater life of our oceans for economic profits. The small boat signifies the endangered livelihoods and well being of indigenous fishermen, their families and their communities. The writing on the boat "Quid Tum?" with the hidden collage of slaughtered individuals, against the background of the nets, questions the unethical exploits of our oceans, which has become a norm.
"Nets" is an installation composed from three large sheets of paper made from poured kozo poured pulp on a 80x180 mesh mould covered with fish nets. The kozo pulp was mixed with seaweeds and dyed with various blue textile pigments. A small ceramic shaped boat is placed on plastic crates with the latin statement; Quid Tum, that loosely means "so what", with the addition of a question mark - Quid Tum? = So What? Within the small boat is a collage of massacred individuals from around the world. The work "Nets" addresses the effect of overfishing around the world, that has been exploiting the diverse richness of the underwater life of our oceans for economic profits. The small boat signifies the endangered livelihoods and well being of indigenous fishermen, their families and their communities. The writing on the boat "Quid Tum?" with the hidden collage of slaughtered individuals, against the background of the nets, questions the unethical exploits of our oceans, which has become a norm.