30 Selected Artists at LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2025

This year’s finalists were chosen by a panel of experts from over 4,600 submissions by artisans representing 133 countries and regions. The 30 finalists, representing 18 countries and regions, work across a range of mediums including ceramics, woodwork, textiles, furniture, paper, glass, metal, jewellery and lacquer. In their deliberations, the panel sought to identify the most outstanding works in terms of technical accomplishment, skills, innovation and artistic vision.

Sheila Loewe, President of the LOEWE FOUNDATION said: Year on year it gives me such pleasure to see the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize provide a platform for extraordinary talent, and change the perception of craft internationally. Over the past decade we have seen the Prize transform lives, careers, and build a global community. It is my great privilege to continue my family’s legacy.

A tribute to LOEWE’s beginnings as a collective craft workshop in 1846, the annual Craft Prize was launched by the LOEWE FOUNDATION in 2016 to celebrate excellence, artistic merit and innovation in modern craft. The award, envisioned by LOEWE Creative Director Jonathan Anderson, aims to acknowledge the importance of craft in today’s culture and to recognise artists whose talent, vision and will to innovate, promise to set a new standard for the future.

Works by the 30 finalists will go on display at Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid, home to an extensive collection spanning eight centuries that offers an encyclopaedic overview of Western art, and will be documented in an exhibition catalogue. Previous iterations of the prize have been exhibited at Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid (COAM), Madrid (2017); The Design Museum, London (2018); Isamu Noguchi’s indoor stone garden ‘Heaven’ at the Sogetsu Kaikan, Tokyo (2019); digitally in a joint presentation with Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (2021); Seoul Museum of Craft Art (SeMoCA), Seoul (2022); in Isamu Noguchi’s studio at the Noguchi Museum, New York (2023) and Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2024).

Regarding the selection process, Anatxu Zabalbeascoa, Executive Secretary of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize Expert Panel, said: The 2025 edition of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize continues to explore the various ways artists reinterpret and modernize traditions. With each edition, the exhibition seeks to showcase extraordinary craftsmanship, demonstrating how artisans work with both precious and non-precious materials — using traditional hand-tools or cutting-edge technology — to shape a contemporary culture enriched by the talent of diverse and distant creative traditions.

A jury composed of 13 leading figures from the worlds of design, architecture, journalism, criticism and museum curatorship will select the winner of the 2025 LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize. The winner will be awarded €50,000 and the announcement will be made on 29 May 2025, at the opening of the exhibition at Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum.


The selected finalists for the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2024 are:
Kobina Adusah (Ghana), Kunimasa Aoki (Japan), Akari Aso (Japan), Caroline Broadhead (United Kingdom), Scott Chaseling (Australia), Rei Chikaoka (Japan), Jessica Costa (Brazil), Philip Eglin (United Kingdom), Aspen Golann (United States of America), hors-studio x Cécile Feilchenfeldt (France), Agnes Husz (Hungary), Mikio Ishiguro (Japan), Empar Juanes (Spain), Jungin Lee (Republic of Korea), Fang Liang (People’s Republic of China), Anina Major (The Bahamas), Nifemi Marcus-Bello (Nigeria), Laura Mays (Republic of Ireland), Didi Ng (Hong Kong, SAR), Dickens Otieno (Kenya), Marie Isabelle Poirier Troyano (Spain), Margaret Rarru Garrawurra (Australia), Yeunhee Ryu (Republic of Korea), Sunyi Shin (Sunny) (Republic of Korea), Zsolt József Simon (Hungary), Studio Sumakshi Singh (India), Fumiki Taguchi (Japan), Lê Thúy (Vietnam), Matt Wedel (United States of America), Xiaodong Zhang (People’s Republic of China).


The 2025 Experts Panel that selected the 30 finalists is composed of:
- Andrew Bonacina, LOEWE Art Consultant and Independent Curator.
- Antonia Boström, former Director of Collections at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
- Hyeyoung Cho, Chairwoman of the Korea Association of Art and Design.
- Sara Flynn, ceramicist and LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2017 finalist.
- Kevin Grey, metal artist and LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2024 finalist.
- Wolfgang Lösche, former Head of Exhibition and Fairs at the Chamber of Skilled Trades, Munich.
- Ibrahim Mahama, mixed media artist.
- Juha Marttila, LOEWE Leather Goods Design Director.
- Michelle Millar Fisher, Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
- Aya Oki, glass artist and LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2024 finalist.
- Anatxu Zabalbeascoa (Executive Secretary), Architecture and Design Correspondent for El País.

The Jury that will select the winner of the 2025 Craft Prize is composed 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 at the 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 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, design, photography, poetry and dance. 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. Since Anderson’s appointment in 2013, LOEWE has initiated an important series of collaborations with artists and artisans 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 has been characteristic of LOEWE since the day it was founded.