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.
MEET 8.
Adrien Ujhazi
Meet 8 is an ambiental installation, which presents a new hybrid life form created from yeasts and bacterias. This artist-cultivated biological entity, manifested in cellulose, provides unique insights into our environment and its intricate processes. The material co-exists in a new habitat, which includes other microbes and organism. Due to various external influences, this work questions the next step of evolution and the coexistence of other life forms and creation. The installation is a speculative narrative, which steps into the hypothetical 8th day or era of creation, introducing both biological and artificial hybrids. It serves as a platform to ponder the possibility of new microbial life evolving symbiotically with humans for future protection. - http://adriennujhazi.com/projects/meet-8-2022/
Meet 8 is an ambiental installation, which presents a new hybrid life form created from yeasts and bacterias. This artist-cultivated biological entity, manifested in cellulose, provides unique insights into our environment and its intricate processes. The material co-exists in a new habitat, which includes other microbes and organism. Due to various external influences, this work questions the next step of evolution and the coexistence of other life forms and creation. The installation is a speculative narrative, which steps into the hypothetical 8th day or era of creation, introducing both biological and artificial hybrids. It serves as a platform to ponder the possibility of new microbial life evolving symbiotically with humans for future protection. - http://adriennujhazi.com/projects/meet-8-2022/