30 Selected Artists at LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2025

LOEWE FOUNDATION announces the 30 artists shortlisted for the 2025 edition of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize. The finalists’ works will be exhibited at Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid from 30 May until 29 June 2025.

The works selected for the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize shortlist will go on display at Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid from 30 May to 29 June 2025. Many of the works in this year’s shortlist innovatively transpose ancient craft techniques from their traditional medium to new materials, such as basketry to clay and weaving on the loom to metal, while elsewhere traditional motifs have been reimagined and reinterpreted. Oral tradition, ritual and knowledge passed through generations are expressed in works that pay reverence to this rich inheritance. While in other works, the artist has forged their own path, creating unique sculptural forms that offer a new direction. Some of these new forms conjure a sense of whimsy and the fantastical, while in others, the artist’s hand is felt more strongly through a gestural treatment of surface.