Open Call Loewe Foundation Craft Prize 2025. 8th edition

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The LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize seeks to acknowledge and support international artisans whose work reinterprets existing knowledge and makes it relevant for today, whilst simultaneously reflecting its maker’s personal language and distinct hand. The Craft Prize is a showcase of the evolving contribution of craft to the culture of our times.

The winning work is selected by a Jury composed of leading experts and distinguished figures from the worlds of design, art, architecture, journalism and curatorship.

The winner collects a prize of €50,000. There are also two special mentions who receive €5,000 each.

The winner and special mentions will feature alongside the shortlisted finalists in an exhibition and accompanying catalogue in Madrid in Spring 2025.

The LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize is open to artists of all ages (over 18) and nationalities, regardless of experience or reputation. The Prize is judged on the strength of the work and values those who are pushing the boundaries of craft.

How to participate
Read the Rules of Entry and make sure you comply with all requirements. All participants must be professional artisans 18 years or older. Entries may be made by an individual or collective (as a ‘group submission’). All nationalities are welcome.

Make sure the work: demonstrates artistic intent in addition to technical proficiency is an original piece, handmade or partly handmade is recently created (in the last five years), and one-of-a-kind, and has not won any prizes previously is innovative, in the sense that it updates tradition falls within an area of the applied arts, such as ceramics, bookbinding, enamelwork, jewellery, lacquer, metal, furniture, leather, textiles, glass, paper, wood, etc.
Complete the online registration in English: you need 2 to 5 photographs of the work (or series) and optionally a video. Write a brief conceptual statement about the work. Submit your application by 30 October 2024.

The shortlisted works will be exhibited at the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid. The prize’s Jury will select the winning piece from the exhibition and the winner of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2025 will be announced in a ceremony at the museum in spring 2025.
The newest members of the 2025 Jury are Andrés Anza winner of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2024, and Frida Escobedo, essayist and architect.
Andrés Anza was announced as the winner of this year’s Prize on 14 May 2024, coinciding with the opening of the exhibition of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2024 at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris. An exhibition of 2024’s shortlisted works can be found online: craftprizeexhibition.loewe.com

>> Link to Rules of Entry 2025.
>> Faq's Loewe Craft Price 2025.

All entries should
- fall within an area of applied arts, such as ceramics, bookbinding, enamelwork, jewellery, lacquer, metal, furniture, leather, textiles, glass, paper, wood, etc.
- be an original work, handmade or partly handmade
- have been created in the last five years
- be one-of-a-kind
- have won no prizes previously
- demonstrate artistic intent.

Expert Panel
An Expert Panel will shortlist up to 30 Works from among all the entries submitted. These finalists (hereafter called the ‘Finalists’) will be then submitted to the Jury for their final decision. In this call, the Expert Panel will be composed of:
— Andrew Bonacina, LOEWE Art Advisor and independent curator.
— Antonia Boström, Director of Collections at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
— Hyeyoung Cho, Chairwoman at the Korea Association of Art and Design.
— Michelle Fisher, Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
— Sara Flynn, ceramicist and finalist of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2017.
— Kevin Grey, metal artist and finalist of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2024.
— Wolfgang Lösche, Head of Exhibitions and Fairs at the Chamber of Skilled Trades, Munich.
— Ibrahim Mahama, mixed media artist.
— Juha Marttila, LOEWE Leather Goods Design Director.
— Aya Oki, glass artist and finalist of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2024.
— Anatxu Zabalbeascoa (Executive Secretary), architecture and design correspondent for El País.

Jury
The Jury for this call will be made up of:
— Jonathan Anderson, LOEWE Creative Director.
— Andrés Anza, winner of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2024.
— 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.
— 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.

About the 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 craftsmanship. The LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize recognises artists who have made fundamentally important contributions to the development of contemporary craft, including ceramics, jewelry, textiles, woodwork, glass, metalwork, furniture, papercraft and lacquer. The Prize functions as a multigenerational snapshot of the utmost excellence in craft today.
The award, which was envisioned by LOEWE creative director Jonathan Anderson, aims to acknowledge the importance of craft in today’s culture and recognise working artists 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.