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.
Algologies: Microscopy
Anna C Dumitriu
"Algologies" explores our intricate relationship with seaweed, the foundational organisms underpinning ocean health and planetary climate regulation. Victorians called the study of seaweed and seaweed collecting algology but in fact this means the study of pain and phycology is the study of algae. The title of the work therefore plays with these dual meanings at a time of global crisis. Developed through collaborations with scientists, this project investigates algae's dual role: impacted by pollution and climate change yet offering vital pathways for Planetary Healing. It highlights their potential in carbon capture, oxygen production, bioremediation, and as sustainable resources for biotechnology (biofuels, bioplastics, food). The artwork uses microscopy to reveal their often-overlooked beauty and critical ecological importance of seaweed.
"Algologies" explores our intricate relationship with seaweed, the foundational organisms underpinning ocean health and planetary climate regulation. Victorians called the study of seaweed and seaweed collecting algology but in fact this means the study of pain and phycology is the study of algae. The title of the work therefore plays with these dual meanings at a time of global crisis. Developed through collaborations with scientists, this project investigates algae's dual role: impacted by pollution and climate change yet offering vital pathways for Planetary Healing. It highlights their potential in carbon capture, oxygen production, bioremediation, and as sustainable resources for biotechnology (biofuels, bioplastics, food). The artwork uses microscopy to reveal their often-overlooked beauty and critical ecological importance of seaweed.