Loewe Opens Submissions For The Next Edition Of The Loewe Foundation Craft Prize
LOEWE is pleased to open submissions for the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2023, which will take place in New York in spring next year. Entries to the sixth edition of the prize will be accepted until 25 October 2022.
The 2022 edition of the prize received over 3,100 total submissions from 115 countries and regions across the globe; potential candidates for next year’s edition are invited to submit work at loewecraftprize.com.
The LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize was launched in 2016 to showcase and celebrate excellence, artistic merit and originality in modern craftsmanship. It seeks to acknowledge and support international artists who demonstrate an exceptional ability to create objects of superior aesthetic value, with the winner receiving 50,000 Euros.
The award, which was conceived by LOEWE’s creative director Jonathan Anderson, aims to acknowledge the importance of craft in today’s culture and to recognise working artists whose talent, vision and will to innovate set a standard for the future. The incentive for the prize goes back to LOEWE’s beginnings as a collective craft workshop in 1846.
Jonathan Anderson states: ‘craft is always going to be modern. It is about creating objects that have a formula of their own and speak their own language, creating a dialogue that didn’t exist before. It is about newness as much as it is about tradition.’
An expert panel composed of artists, essayists, curators, and designers will consider all submitted works in order to select a shortlist of up to 30 submissions. New additions to the expert panel this year include, Andile Dyalvane (ceramist and finalist of the Craft Prize 2022), Myungtaek Jung (furniture artist and finalist of the Craft Prize 2022), Wolfgang Lösche (Head of Exhibition and Fairs at the Chamber of Skilled Trades, Munich) and Mary Savig (Curator of Craft at the Smithsonian American Art Museum Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.). 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.
The shortlisted works will then form the basis of an exhibition due to go on display in New York, United States from which the Prize’s Jury will select the winning piece. The newest member of the 2023 Jury is Dahye Jeong, the winner of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2022.
Jeong was announced as the winner of this year’s prize on 30 June 2022, coinciding with the opening of the exhibition of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2022 at the Seoul Museum of Craft Art and digitally on https://craftprizeexhibition.loewe.com. The physical exhibition is open until 31 July 2022.
The winner of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2023 will be announced in New York in spring 2023.
Expert Panel
Paula Aza, LOEWE Director of Architecture and Visual Merchandising. Antonia Boström, Director of Collections at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Hyeyoung Cho, Secretary General at the Korea Craft and Design Foundation. Andile Dyalvane, ceramist and finalist of the Craft Prize 2022.
Sara Flynn, ceramist and finalist of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2017. Myungtaek Jung, furniture artist and finalist of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2022.
Wolfgang Lösche, Head of Exhibition and Fairs at the Chamber of Skilled Trades, Munich.
Juha Marttila, LOEWE Leather Goods Design Director. Mary Savig, Curator of Craft at the Smithsonian American Art Museum Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Anatxu Zabalbeascoa (Executive Secretary), architecture and design correspondent for El País.
Jury
Jonathan Anderson, LOEWE Creative Director.
Naoto Fukasawa, designer and Director of the Japan Folk Crafts Museum, Tokyo. Olivier Gabet, Director of the Art Department at the Louvre Museum, Paris Dahye Jeong, Winner of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2022.
Hongnam Kim, Former Director of the National Museum of Korea. Enrique Loewe, LOEWE FOUNDATION Honorary President.
Magdalene Odundo, ceramicist.
Wang Shu, architect and Pritzker Prize winner.
Deyan Sudjic, essayist and Director Emeritus of the Design Museum, London. Benedetta Tagliabue, architect and RIBA Stirling Prize winner.
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 (Chairwoman), architecture and design correspondent for El País.
The LOEWE FOUNDATION
The LOEWE FOUNDATION was established as a private cultural foundation in 1988 by Enrique Loewe, a fourth-generation member of LOEWE’s founding family. Today, under the direction of his daughter Sheila Loewe, the Foundation continues to promote creativity, organise educational programs and protect cultural heritage in the fields of poetry, dance, photography, design, art and craft. The Foundation was awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts by the Spanish government in 2002.
LOEWE & Culture
With the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize the house reasserts its longstanding commitment to creativity in all forms and disciplines. Culture is a pillar of the brand. Reflecting fashion’s vital link to contemporary life, a strong emphasis on art, design and craftsmanship has been a cornerstone of Jonathan Anderson’s rebuilding of the house. In the past years, LOEWE has initiated an important series of collaborations with artists who reinterpret and expand the brand’s values. Apart from showcasing the many facets of LOEWE, these cultural projects reflect the transfer of knowledge and the cooperative spirit that have been characteristic of LOEWE since the day it was founded.
Dahye Jeong, Republic of Korea
‘A Time of Sincerity’, horsehair, 375 x 290 x 270 mm.
2021
Andile Dyalvane, South Africa
‘Cornish Wall’, glazed stoneware clay, 340 x 340 x 450 mm.
2019
Julia Obermaier, Germany
‘Verborgen’, rock crystal, resin, pigment and stainless steel, various dimensions.
2021
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