Welcome to the Social Art Award 2025 – Online Gallery!
🌊 Dear friends of art and transformation, 🌊
A heartfelt thank you to all artists and creatives who submitted their powerful works for this year’s Social Art Award under the theme: “Planetary Healing – Blue Tribes for Ocean Health.” Your inspiring visions speak to ocean restoration, biodiversity, and reimagining our coexistence with all life forms on Earth.
After receiving 922 submissions from across all continents, and concluding a very active public voting phase, the Social Art Award now enters its next chapter:
🔹 What’s next?
The professional jury panel is currently reviewing and selecting the TOP 100 entries that will be featured in the official Social Art Award 2025 book. In parallel, the two public voting winners will move forward as wildcards into the final jury round.
🔹 Coming up:
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Shortlisted artists (TOP 10) will be announced by mid-June.
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Winners of the Social Art Award 2025 will be revealed at our Online Award Ceremony on July 2, 2025.
We invite you to stay connected as we celebrate the power of Social Art to drive dialogue, awareness, and collective transformation.
Let’s continue to amplify art as a force for Planetary Healing.
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