LOEWE FOUNDATION is pleased to open submissions for the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2026, which will be awarded in Singapore next spring. Entries to the ninth edition of the Prize will be accepted until 30 October 2025.
The LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize was launched in 2016 to showcase and celebrate excellence, artistic merit and newness in modern craft. It seeks toacknowledge and support international artists who demonstrate an exceptional ability to create objects of superior aesthetic value. Anyone over 18 years of age,working in a craft-based profession is welcome to apply. The winner will receive 50,000 euros and the two special mentions will each receive 5,000 euros. The award aims to acknowledge the importance of craft in today’s cultureand to recognise working artists whose talent, vision and will to innovate set a standard for the future. The Prize was created as a tribute to LOEWE’s beginnings as a collective craft workshop in 1846.
Sheila Loewe, President of the LOEWE FOUNDATION, states: ‘Year on year, it gives me such pleasure to see the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize provide a platform for extraordinary talent. Through the Prize, we honour artists who dare to innovate while preserving a deep connection and reverence to their material and their culture. Craft embodies the values we want to carry forward for the next generation: care, dedication and imagination. These are the gestures that shape our future.
The 2025 edition of the Prize received over 4,600 submissions from 133 countries and regions across the globe.
An expert panel composed of artists, essayists and curators will consider all submitted works in order to select a shortlist of up to 30 submissions for the 2026 Prize. New additions to the expert panel include Scott Chaseling, glass artist; Nifemi Marcus- Bello, artist and designer; and Didi NG Wing Yin, wood artist, all of whom are finalists of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2025. The panel’s choice will be based on a number of key criteria: originality, clear artistic vision and merit, precise execution,material excellence, innovative value and a distinct authorial mark.
The shortlisted works will be exhibited in Singapore in spring 2026 and the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize Jury will select the winning piece from the exhibition. The LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2026 shortlist and further details about the location and ceremony will be announced in early 2026.
The newest members of the 2026 Jury are Kunimasa Aoki, winner of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2025, and Jack McCollough and Lázaro Hernández, new Creative Directors of LOEWE.
Kunimasa Aoki was announced as the winner of this year’s Prize on 29 May 2025, coinciding with the opening of the exhibition of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2025 at the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid.
