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.
“Marine Fisheries and Consumerists”
Siqi Song
2025, 135 x 85 cm, oil on canvas The artificial swimming pool-like mosaic seabed seems to have turned the entire ocean into a dining table, available for humans to pick from and enjoy eating at will. In the painting, humans are divided into two groups: diners sitting at the table enjoying seafood and free-diving fishermen collecting and catching fish underwater. Through this common consumption-supply relationship, the essence that there is no consuming no killing. The work exposes the situation that humans are accustomed to exploiting natural resources and arbitrarily transforming natural systems. Visually, the artist focuses on creating a liquid and flowing visual effect. By adjusting the brushstrokes, the shapes of the graphics, and the dryness and wetness of the brush, and optimizing the technique of water and oil separation when painting with acrylic, a natural liquid-like feeling is presented.
2025, 135 x 85 cm, oil on canvas The artificial swimming pool-like mosaic seabed seems to have turned the entire ocean into a dining table, available for humans to pick from and enjoy eating at will. In the painting, humans are divided into two groups: diners sitting at the table enjoying seafood and free-diving fishermen collecting and catching fish underwater. Through this common consumption-supply relationship, the essence that there is no consuming no killing. The work exposes the situation that humans are accustomed to exploiting natural resources and arbitrarily transforming natural systems. Visually, the artist focuses on creating a liquid and flowing visual effect. By adjusting the brushstrokes, the shapes of the graphics, and the dryness and wetness of the brush, and optimizing the technique of water and oil separation when painting with acrylic, a natural liquid-like feeling is presented.