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.
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.