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.
Brotes de Jilotes
Benjamin Stephenson
Brotes de Jilotes is a site-specific, time-based sculptural installation composed of melting ice sculptures inspired by Olmec iconography. Installed in a bed of soil, these ephemeral forms slowly dissolve, revealing seeds embedded within the earth. The work is a meditation on climate change, cultural heritage, and the cycles of loss and renewal. By referencing ancient Mesoamerican aesthetics and employing a material as impermanent as ice, the piece invites viewers to reflect on the fragility of both ecological and cultural systems. As the sculptures melt, they become active agents in the transformation of their environment—watering the soil and symbolically nurturing the next generation of growth. Rooted in my ongoing exploration of humanity’s relationship with the natural world, Brotes de Jilotes speaks to themes of ephemerality, resilience, and memory. It is part of a wider practice using raw, natural materials to create immersive works that respond to place, history, and myth. As a public, time-sensitive intervention, the piece offers an embodied experience of impermanence and regeneration in a rapidly changing world.
Brotes de Jilotes is a site-specific, time-based sculptural installation composed of melting ice sculptures inspired by Olmec iconography. Installed in a bed of soil, these ephemeral forms slowly dissolve, revealing seeds embedded within the earth. The work is a meditation on climate change, cultural heritage, and the cycles of loss and renewal. By referencing ancient Mesoamerican aesthetics and employing a material as impermanent as ice, the piece invites viewers to reflect on the fragility of both ecological and cultural systems. As the sculptures melt, they become active agents in the transformation of their environment—watering the soil and symbolically nurturing the next generation of growth. Rooted in my ongoing exploration of humanity’s relationship with the natural world, Brotes de Jilotes speaks to themes of ephemerality, resilience, and memory. It is part of a wider practice using raw, natural materials to create immersive works that respond to place, history, and myth. As a public, time-sensitive intervention, the piece offers an embodied experience of impermanence and regeneration in a rapidly changing world.