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.
Bodies of Water
Natsume Ono and Andrew Yu
“…As bodies of water we leak and seethe, our borders always vulnerable to rupture and renegotiation” -Astrida Neimanis Bodies of Water is a performative installation that navigates the Western world’s exploitative relationship with water. By situating the installation in environments seemingly unrelated to water and dissolving physical boundaries of the structure, we hope observers renegotiate their binary understanding between metropolitan and wild bodies of water. vimeo.com/1069393760
“…As bodies of water we leak and seethe, our borders always vulnerable to rupture and renegotiation” -Astrida Neimanis Bodies of Water is a performative installation that navigates the Western world’s exploitative relationship with water. By situating the installation in environments seemingly unrelated to water and dissolving physical boundaries of the structure, we hope observers renegotiate their binary understanding between metropolitan and wild bodies of water. vimeo.com/1069393760