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.
Land Conversion and Embodied Memories
Siqi Song
Since the Anthropocene, human beings have rapidly developed urban construction and industrial production, permanently altering the structure of the land surface and the geological climate. Nowadays, humans walk on buildings wrapped in steel and concrete and under designed natural plant landscapes. So where has our nature gone? By using materials and mixed media and collage techniques, the artist applies natural and raw materials to the canvas, bringing the "real" land onto the canvas, evoking an innate, animal-like instinct and re-establishing a deep connection between humans and the earth. To express the texture of harmony, nature and industry mixed together, during the base layering process, the artist creates a real "soil structure" through splashing, sowing and piling, thereby exploring the current situation of nature being trampled, transformed and buried in the Anthropocene. The photos and collages on the collage (recorded in chronological order from ancient to modern) show the changes in the power and rights relationship between humans and nature, and also record the human emotions and memories contained in the land. 2025, 135 x 85 cm, Mix media Materials: oil paint, mineral pigment, Lime powder, rock pigment, sand, white glue, maltose, soil, charcoal, wood pulp, lithopone, hydrogenated iron, seed, roots
Since the Anthropocene, human beings have rapidly developed urban construction and industrial production, permanently altering the structure of the land surface and the geological climate. Nowadays, humans walk on buildings wrapped in steel and concrete and under designed natural plant landscapes. So where has our nature gone? By using materials and mixed media and collage techniques, the artist applies natural and raw materials to the canvas, bringing the "real" land onto the canvas, evoking an innate, animal-like instinct and re-establishing a deep connection between humans and the earth. To express the texture of harmony, nature and industry mixed together, during the base layering process, the artist creates a real "soil structure" through splashing, sowing and piling, thereby exploring the current situation of nature being trampled, transformed and buried in the Anthropocene. The photos and collages on the collage (recorded in chronological order from ancient to modern) show the changes in the power and rights relationship between humans and nature, and also record the human emotions and memories contained in the land. 2025, 135 x 85 cm, Mix media Materials: oil paint, mineral pigment, Lime powder, rock pigment, sand, white glue, maltose, soil, charcoal, wood pulp, lithopone, hydrogenated iron, seed, roots