Craft Prize 2026
The LOEWE FOUNDATION launched the international annual LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize in 2016 to showcase and celebrate newness, excellence and artistic merit in modern craft. With a €50,000 award for the winning entry, the prize aims to celebrate and support working artists whose talent, vision and will to innovate promise to set a new standard for the future.
Digital exhibition 2025
Explore the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize through our digital exhibition, which presents the 30 shortlisted pieces alongside insights into the artists and their processes, as well as exclusive studio tours. The 2025 finalists showcased works spanning a wide range of mediums, including ceramics, woodwork, textiles, furniture, paper, glass, metal, jewellery and lacquer.
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 2025.
From the shortlist, a jury composed of 13 leading figures from the world of design, architecture, journalism, criticism and museum curatorship, including Kunimasa Aoki, winner of the 2025 LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize, will select the winner of the 2026 Craft Prize.
The prize awarded to the winner is 50,000 Euros in cash and the announcement will be made in the spring of 2026.
The Expert Panel will consider all works presented and submit to the Jury a shortlist of 30 one-off works which they consider most outstanding, representing excellence, newness, innovation and artistic vision in modern craftsmanship.
Watch a conversation on modern craft here.
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