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.
Echoes of the Deep: A Cosmic Embrace for Ocean Healing
Arefa Jahan
Echoes of the Deep is an acrylic painting that blends the vastness of space with the ocean’s depths, using deep blues to evoke both. A red flower symbolizes fragile marine ecosystems, while a blue guardian—representing the ocean’s spirit—reaches for a human figure, symbolizing unity. An astronaut, inspired by Vladimir Komarov’s sacrifice, floats tethered, reflecting humanity’s sacrifices for exploration and now for ocean restoration. Set against a glowing moon, this work embodies the Blue Tribes’ mission to foster harmony and heal the planet through interconnectedness.
Echoes of the Deep is an acrylic painting that blends the vastness of space with the ocean’s depths, using deep blues to evoke both. A red flower symbolizes fragile marine ecosystems, while a blue guardian—representing the ocean’s spirit—reaches for a human figure, symbolizing unity. An astronaut, inspired by Vladimir Komarov’s sacrifice, floats tethered, reflecting humanity’s sacrifices for exploration and now for ocean restoration. Set against a glowing moon, this work embodies the Blue Tribes’ mission to foster harmony and heal the planet through interconnectedness.