LOEWE FOUNDATION Opens Submissions For LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2026
LOEWE FOUNDATION is pleased to open submissions for the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2026, which will be awarded in Singapore next spring. Entries to the ninth edition of the Prize will be accepted until 30 October 2025. Potential candidates 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 newness in modern craft. It seeks to acknowledge and support international artists who demonstrate an exceptional ability to create objects of superior aesthetic value. Anyone over 18 years of age working in a craft-based profession is welcome to apply. The winner will receive 50,000 euros and the two special mentions will each receive 5,000 euros. The award 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 Prize was created as a tribute to LOEWE’s beginnings as a collective craft workshop in 1846.
Sheila Loewe, President of the LOEWE FOUNDATION, states: ‘Year on year, it gives me such pleasure to see the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize provide a platform for extraordinary talent. Through the Prize, we honour artists who dare to innovate while preserving a deep connection and reverence to their material and their culture. Craft embodies the values we want to carry forward for the next generation: care, dedication and imagination. These are the gestures that shape our future.’
The 2025 edition of the Prize received over 4,600 submissions from 133 countries and regions across the globe.
An expert panel composed of artists, essayists and curators will consider all submitted works in order to select a shortlist of up to 30 submissions for the 2026 Prize. New additions to the expert panel include Scott Chaseling, glass artist; Nifemi Marcus-Bello, artist and designer; and Didi NG Wing Yin, wood artist, all of whom are finalists of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2025. 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 be exhibited in Singapore in spring 2026 and the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize Jury will select the winning piece from the exhibition. The LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2026 shortlist and further details about the location and ceremony will be announced in early 2026.
The newest members of the 2026 Jury are Kunimasa Aoki, winner of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2025, and Jack McCollough and Lázaro Hernández, new Creative Directors of LOEWE.
Kunimasa Aoki was announced as the winner of this year’s Prize on 29 May 2025, coinciding with the opening of the exhibition of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2025 at the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid. An exhibition of 2025’s shortlisted works can be found online: craftprizeexhibition.loewe.com.
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Expert Panel
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 LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2017 finalist.
Satoko Fujiwara, LOEWE VP Leather Goods Merchandising & Buying Strategy.
Amy Greenspon, 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 LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2025 finalist.
Ibrahim Mahama, mixed media artist.
Anatxu Zabalbeascoa (Executive Secretary), Architecture and Design Correspondent for El País.
Didi NG Wing Yin, wood artist and LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2025 finalist.
Jury
Kunimasa Aoki, winner of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2025.
Minsuk Cho, architect and winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2014.
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), 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.
Applications
Anyone over 18 years of age working in a craft-based profession is welcome to apply.
About LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize
The LOEWE FOUNDATION launched the international annual LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize in 2016 to showcase and celebrate newness, excellence and artistic merit in modern craft. The LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2025 recognises the shortlisted artists as having made fundamentally important contributions to the development of contemporary craft and spans ceramics, jewellery, textiles, woodwork, glass, metalwork, furniture, papercraft and lacquer. The Prize functions as a multigenerational snapshot of the utmost excellence in craft today. The award aims to acknowledge the importance of craft in today’s culture and recognise working artisans whose talent, vision and will to innovate set a standard for the future.
The incentive for the Prize was inspired by LOEWE’s beginnings as a collective craft workshop in 1846, reflecting fashion’s vital link to culture and the importance of advanced, specialised knowledge to the field. Art, craft and design remain fundamental cornerstones to the house’s present chapter. Any professional artisan aged over 18 can apply for the award, with the sole requirement that the submitted work combine an innovative application of its craft with an original artistic concept.
About 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 craft, art, design, photography, poetry and dance. The Foundation was awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts by the Spanish government in 2002.
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About 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. LOEWE’s history of important collaborations with artists and artisans who reinterpret and expand the brand’s values reflects fashion’s vital link to contemporary life, with a strong emphasis on art, design and craftsmanship. 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.
About The Room
The Room is a digital platform dedicated to showcasing works by the artists nominated for the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize, enabling them to share their work with a global audience and giving visitors the opportunity to discover, research and collect art by some of the world’s most innovative craftspeople working today.
Find out more at theroom.loewe.com.
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