LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize Call for Applications
These are the final weeks to apply for the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize 2026. Applications for the ninth edition of the prize will be accepted until October 30, 2025.
Applications for the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2026 are now being accepted until October 30th, 2025. There will be an award ceremony and exhibition of the 30 short-listed artists in Singapore in the spring of 2026. The winner of the prize will receive €50,000. To learn how to apply, visit their website.
The LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize was founded in 2016 with a mission of showcasing and celebrating excellence, artistic merit and newness in modern craft. Now in its ninth edition, it has become one of the most anticipated prizes of the year across art, design and craft. With its rigorous approach to selecting finalists, its global reach and diverse vision, along with its generous promotion of the winners, through exhibitions and financial awards, the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize is an important acknowledgement about craft culture today. The winner will receive 50,000 euros and the two special mentions will each receive 5,000 euros.
The Jury for this edition will be made up of: Kunimasa Aoki, winner of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2025, Minsuk Cho, architect and winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Frida Escobedo, essayist and architect, Naoto Fukasawa, designer and Director of the Japan Folk Crafts Museum, Tokyo, Olivier Gabet, Director of the Department of Decorative Arts, Louvre Museum, Paris, Sheila Loewe, Chairwoman and President of the LOEWE FOUNDATION, Jack McCollough and Lázaro Hernández, LOEWE Creative Directors, Magdalene Odundo, ceramicist, Wang Shu, architect and Pritzker Prize winner, Deyan Sudjic, essayist and Director Emeritus of the Design Museum, London, Abraham Thomas, Curator of Modern Architecture, Design and Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Patricia Urquiola, architect and industrial designer, Anatxu Zabalbeascoa, Architecture and Design Correspondent for El País.
The Expert Panel will be composed of: Antonia Boström, former Director of Collections at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Scott Chaseling, glass artist and LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2025 finalist, Hyeyoung Cho, Chairwoman at the Korea Association of Art and Design, Michelle Millar Fisher, Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Sara Flynn, ceramicist and Craft Prize 2017 finalist, Satoko Fujiwara, LOEWE VP Leather Goods Merchandising & Buying Strategy, Amy Greenspom, LOEWE Art Advisor and independent curator, Wolfgang Lösche, former Head of Exhibition and Fairs at the Chamber of Skilled Trades, Munich, Nifemi Marcus-Bello, artist and designer and Craft Prize 2025 finalist, Ibrahim Mahama, mixed media artist, Didi NG Wing Yin, wood artist and Craft Prize 2025 finalist.
The panel’s choice will be based on a number of key criteria: originality, clear artistic vision and merit, precise execution, material excellence, innovative value and a distinct authorial mark.
On May 29th, Kunimasa Aoki was announced as the 2025 winner at the opening of the exhibition of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2025, which took place at the Thyssen Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid. Aoki’s ceramic work, ‘Realm of Living Things’ (2024) is a striking, anamorphic ceramic sculpture that explores the ways in which clay cracks and distorts when force is applied. In addition, two special mention awards went to: Nifemi Marcus-Bello for his ‘TM Bench with Bowl’ (2023) and to Studio Sumakshi Singh for ‘Monument’ (2024).
In addition to the Craft Prize, the LOEWE FOUNDATION has created The Room, a digital platform dedicated to showcasing works by the artists nominated for the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize. This thoughtfully conceived platform enables the artists to share their work with a global audience and offer the opportunity to discover, research and collect art by some of the world’s most innovative craftspeople working today.
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