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.
Wonder Theater of the Sea
nanjun_ge
This project is based on the concept of a"digital Wunderkammer"; and explores the theme of the ocean through historical marine life depicted in the Wunderkammer books of “Schloss Gottorf”. The exhibition presents a collage-like narrative animation that weaves together corals, fish, algae, historical illustrations, documentary footage, and my voice. By merging historical archives with digital simulations, it creates new dimensions of time and space, showcasing the dynamic transformations of the ocean. While traditional “Wunderkammern” preserved specimens in a static manner, the digital realm endows "collection" with fluidity and vitality. To some extent, the project also challenges the traditional Wunderkammer concept and seeks a more open artistic expression, encouraging the audience to reflect on the digital ocean, posthumanism, and power structures. At its core, the exhibition portrays the ocean as a repository of memories—memories that no longer rely on physical objects but exist as a collection of images, sounds, and data. However, in reality, marine ecosystems are rapidly disappearing, and many of the organisms depicted in the exhibition may no longer exist in the future. Today, "collecting" is not just about preservation; it is also about protection, warning, and reflection.
This project is based on the concept of a"digital Wunderkammer"; and explores the theme of the ocean through historical marine life depicted in the Wunderkammer books of “Schloss Gottorf”. The exhibition presents a collage-like narrative animation that weaves together corals, fish, algae, historical illustrations, documentary footage, and my voice. By merging historical archives with digital simulations, it creates new dimensions of time and space, showcasing the dynamic transformations of the ocean. While traditional “Wunderkammern” preserved specimens in a static manner, the digital realm endows "collection" with fluidity and vitality. To some extent, the project also challenges the traditional Wunderkammer concept and seeks a more open artistic expression, encouraging the audience to reflect on the digital ocean, posthumanism, and power structures. At its core, the exhibition portrays the ocean as a repository of memories—memories that no longer rely on physical objects but exist as a collection of images, sounds, and data. However, in reality, marine ecosystems are rapidly disappearing, and many of the organisms depicted in the exhibition may no longer exist in the future. Today, "collecting" is not just about preservation; it is also about protection, warning, and reflection.