2025 prize winners

The artist duo Bigert & Bergström are the 2025 recipients of the Art for the Globe Award.

The climate is crucial to the survival of our planet. But climate is also a core part of every nation’s identity. As the climate now changes rapidly, something is also shifting within us as humans. We develop a conflicted relationship with things like snow. One day, we mourn the lack of snow during a mountain holiday, and the next we curse the heavy snowfall in the city as we dig out our cars. 

Since 1986, Bigert & Bergström have observed these changes and transformed them into powerful art—ranging from sculptures and installations to performances and moving images. But above all, Mats Bigert and Lars Bergström have sparked reflection in their audiences. With humor, creativity, and a near-scientific precision, they visualize the societal issues we often prefer to ignore. Suddenly, reality becomes visible. The global temperature is rising. Glaciers are melting. The Freeze (2015) drapes an emergency thermal blanket over the summit of Sweden’s shrinking Kebnekaise. The upcoming project Wasteland Climate Action exposes the consequences of urbanization.

Where alarmist reports and political statements too often fall on deaf ears, Bigert & Bergström succeed in reaching new audiences with the most urgent issue of our time. It is with great pride that we present the 2025 Art for the Globe Award to the artist duo Bigert & Bergström.