Finalist Artists at the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2019 Exhibition in Tokyo

Artist list

Giampaolo Babetto, John Eric Byers, Giovanni Corvaja, Mi Dong, Jingfeng Fang, Michal Fargo, Sachi Fujikake, Tomonari Hashimoto, Akiko Hirai, Akiko Hirai, Henar Iglesias, Gental Ishikuza, Minhee Kim, Heeseung Koh, Youngsoon Lee, Jokum Lind Jensen, Koichi Lo, Shozo Michikawa, Harry Morgan, Junko Mori, Mayu Nakata, Masanori Nishikawa, Jim Partridge, Ruudt Peters, Sophie Rowley, Elke Sada, Kye-Yeon Son, Kazuhito Takadoi, Annie Turner, Liz Walmsley, Andrea Walsh, Deloss Webber

This year, over 2,500 submissions from over 100 countries (an increase of 44 percent) were reviewed by a panel of nine experts, who convened in Madrid for two days to identify the most outstanding works in terms of technical accomplishment, innovation, and artistic vision. As always the finalists hail from far reaches of the globe, although there is a notable quota of 10 representing Japan, eight are UK-based and there are four from Korea.

A jury composed of 11 leading figures from the world of design, architecture, journalism, criticism, and museum curatorship, including Anderson and also Jennifer Lee, winner of last year’s prize, will select the winner from the shortlist.

Each year the announcement of the winner takes place in a different city. Last year’s ceremony took place at London’s Design Museum and for the inaugural year, the announcement and exhibition took place in Loewe’s home city of Madrid. This year the jury will travel to Tokyo and the prize of 50,000 euros will be presented to the winner on 25 June at the opening of the Loewe Craft Prize 2019 exhibition, which is being held at Isamu Noguchi’s indoor stone garden Heaven at the Sogetsu Kaikan in Tokyo – a suitably tranquil setting in which to enjoy the rich diversity of hand-hewn works on display.