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.
Keren Anavy, BrainStorming, 2025, ultramarine pigment,...
Keren Anavy
The installation explores how oceans and water channels shift identities and objects across borders. BrainStorming reflects on our relationship with nature, urging viewers to consider the history of waterways and their role in a rapidly changing world. A video shows a crab in the Red Sea (near the artist's birthplace in Israel) crawling over coral, seemingly in search of a home while carrying its shell- both protection and burden. On the floor rests a used canoe filled with ultramarine blue pigment. The canoe, collected with help from locals, marks a meaningful moment in Anavy’s journey as an immigrant artist connecting with the Long Island Sound community. In the installation, the canoe becomes a symbolic vessel rich with American history and personal narrative, yet stripped of function, while the blue pigment speaks to the artist's painterly identity.
The installation explores how oceans and water channels shift identities and objects across borders. BrainStorming reflects on our relationship with nature, urging viewers to consider the history of waterways and their role in a rapidly changing world. A video shows a crab in the Red Sea (near the artist's birthplace in Israel) crawling over coral, seemingly in search of a home while carrying its shell- both protection and burden. On the floor rests a used canoe filled with ultramarine blue pigment. The canoe, collected with help from locals, marks a meaningful moment in Anavy’s journey as an immigrant artist connecting with the Long Island Sound community. In the installation, the canoe becomes a symbolic vessel rich with American history and personal narrative, yet stripped of function, while the blue pigment speaks to the artist's painterly identity.