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.
Tulip breaking, and the way how we know the sea.
Yvonne Yu
My inspiration comes from the tulips. Right, the tulips shipped to my hometown, in a local park, with crowds coming from the city in the spring. For only 8 weeks, then the tulips will be gone. Living in an inland city, people do not know the sea well. We know the sea from our food, from the zoo, and maybe from the shopping apps. On those apps, for example, we have human-made fishes, shrimps, and crabs, in blue shades, lovely. But why TULIPS? When the Tulip Mania happened centuries ago in The Netherlands, there were also marine trades, and that is why we see tulips here in Nanjing, China...Do not forget the history of the sea, the economic bubble, and how we connect — by the sea.
My inspiration comes from the tulips. Right, the tulips shipped to my hometown, in a local park, with crowds coming from the city in the spring. For only 8 weeks, then the tulips will be gone. Living in an inland city, people do not know the sea well. We know the sea from our food, from the zoo, and maybe from the shopping apps. On those apps, for example, we have human-made fishes, shrimps, and crabs, in blue shades, lovely. But why TULIPS? When the Tulip Mania happened centuries ago in The Netherlands, there were also marine trades, and that is why we see tulips here in Nanjing, China...Do not forget the history of the sea, the economic bubble, and how we connect — by the sea.