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.
HOMEM CAGANDO PRO MUNDO SENTADO EM SEU TRONO PERFEITO
FRANCIMAR BARBOSA PINTO
"Man shitting on the world sitting on his perfect throne" is a painting (126cm x 90cm) with technique: Acrylic on canvas that addresses the theme of exploitation and degradation that the planet has been suffering since the Industrial Revolution when a drastic transformation began in the relationship between human beings and nature. The painting shows a man calmly reading a newspaper as if nothing was happening, with information about: air pollution, rivers and oceans, deforestation, fires, contamination by pesticides, denialism, among others. Defecating on the planet, sitting on a golden toilet, referring to his life priorities, generating wealth and earning more money, but at the cost of the survival of the living beings on this planet.
"Man shitting on the world sitting on his perfect throne" is a painting (126cm x 90cm) with technique: Acrylic on canvas that addresses the theme of exploitation and degradation that the planet has been suffering since the Industrial Revolution when a drastic transformation began in the relationship between human beings and nature. The painting shows a man calmly reading a newspaper as if nothing was happening, with information about: air pollution, rivers and oceans, deforestation, fires, contamination by pesticides, denialism, among others. Defecating on the planet, sitting on a golden toilet, referring to his life priorities, generating wealth and earning more money, but at the cost of the survival of the living beings on this planet.