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.
Become a Worm
Babette van Gerwen
Become a Worm reflects on sensitivity, social conditioning and existing in the Anthropocene. It explores embodiment as a tool to help us connect to the existence of other life forms and imagine living beyond human constraints. I'm an artist and PhD researcher exploring the human-nature connectedness through experimentation, embodiment and community participation. I'm interested in what non-human nature reveals to us about human nature, and how we can learn from the non human lives in our everyday environment to live more compassionate, interconnected existences. Currently I create with paint, film, costume and community-focused workshops. My work with ecotherapy gardening at the Forest Farm Peace Garden is important inspiration for my practice.
Become a Worm reflects on sensitivity, social conditioning and existing in the Anthropocene. It explores embodiment as a tool to help us connect to the existence of other life forms and imagine living beyond human constraints. I'm an artist and PhD researcher exploring the human-nature connectedness through experimentation, embodiment and community participation. I'm interested in what non-human nature reveals to us about human nature, and how we can learn from the non human lives in our everyday environment to live more compassionate, interconnected existences. Currently I create with paint, film, costume and community-focused workshops. My work with ecotherapy gardening at the Forest Farm Peace Garden is important inspiration for my practice.