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.
Evolution
HuangYue
Evolution is an AI-generated video artwork that profoundly explores the impact of marine plastic pollution on the biosphere. The narrative is set against the backdrop of oceanic plastic waste, envisioning an extreme scenario: as pollution intensifies, marine life is gradually displaced by garbage, which "evolves" into new biological forms that colonize the oceans. The video begins with the initial emergence of plastic waste in the sea, gradually depicting the extinction of marine organisms due to contamination, and culminates in the reorganization of garbage into structures that replace the original ecosystem.
Evolution is an AI-generated video artwork that profoundly explores the impact of marine plastic pollution on the biosphere. The narrative is set against the backdrop of oceanic plastic waste, envisioning an extreme scenario: as pollution intensifies, marine life is gradually displaced by garbage, which "evolves" into new biological forms that colonize the oceans. The video begins with the initial emergence of plastic waste in the sea, gradually depicting the extinction of marine organisms due to contamination, and culminates in the reorganization of garbage into structures that replace the original ecosystem.