LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2025
LOEWE FOUNDATION is proud to launch the eighth edition of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize. The annual international award celebrates excellence in craftsmanship seeks to recognise uniquely talented artisans whose artistic vision and will to innovate will set a new standard for the future of craft.
The winning entry will receive a € 50,000 prize, chosen by a jury from a shortlist of 30 artists whose works will form a finalists’ exhibition in Madrid in spring 2025.
Find out more about the prize rules and how to submit your entry at loewecraftprize.com. Submissions are open until 30 October 2024.
Conditions of Entry All participants must be professional artisans of 18 years or older at the time of the submission of entries. Entries may be made by an individual or collective (as a ‘group submission’). Businesses and mercantile companies of any kind are excluded. All nationalities are welcome. Each participant can present either one single piece of work or one series of works, understood as a number of objects considered as a single artistic creation (henceforth, ‘the Work’).
This should fall within an area of the applied arts and, as a guide, within the following categories: ceramics, bookbinding, enamelwork, jewellery, lacquer, metal, furniture, leather, textiles, glass, wood, paper, etc. Materials and products outside the categories listed are not excluded; they may be accepted by the Experts Panel if they comply with the aim and requirements of the competition. Dangerous, prohibited or alive materials are excluded.
All Works must:
— Be owned by the participant, at all times, since its creation until the end of the License period,
— Be an original one-off piece, handmade or partly handmade by the participant,
— Have been recently created (in the last five years),
— Have won no prizes previously,
— Be innovative, in the sense that it updates tradition,
— Demonstrate artistic intent,
— Be able to travel and be installed by LOEWE and/or the LOEWE FOUNDATION.
