Announcing the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2026 finalists

Following deliberations in Madrid, our Expert Panel has selected the 30 finalists for the ninth edition of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize.

How to participate

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; has been recently created (in the last five years), is 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.

Expert Panel

The Expert Panel considers 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 craft.
Watch a conversation on modern craft here.

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Satoko Fujiwara
LOEWE VP Leather Goods Merchandising & Buying Strategy

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Scott Chaseling
Glass artist and LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2025 finalist

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Nifemi Marcus-Bello
Artist and designer and LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2025 finalist

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Didi NG Wing Yin
Wood artist and LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2025 finalist

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Anatxu Zabalbeascoa (Executive Secretary)
Architecture and design correspondent for El País

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Antonia Boström
Director of Collections at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London

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Michelle Millar Fischer

Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Hyeyoung Cho
Secretary General at the Korea Craft and Design Foundation

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Sara Flynn
Ceramist and finalist of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2017

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Ibrahim Mahama
Mixed media artist

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Wolfgang Lösche
Head of Exhibition and Fairs at the Chamber of Skilled Trades, Munich