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.
Riding the wave, together
Pooja Kumar
‘Riding the wave, together’ corrects the scale of the world in which different species struggle to survive in 2025. It re-centers the more-than-human world, to make it impossible to ignore. It compresses human settlement and places that off-center, to clarify that humans have to reduce their footprint if they are to live in concert with individual members of other species. It shows that it is possible to respect the more-than-human world even if we do not understand how everything works.
‘Riding the wave, together’ corrects the scale of the world in which different species struggle to survive in 2025. It re-centers the more-than-human world, to make it impossible to ignore. It compresses human settlement and places that off-center, to clarify that humans have to reduce their footprint if they are to live in concert with individual members of other species. It shows that it is possible to respect the more-than-human world even if we do not understand how everything works.