Loewe Craft Prize 2025
Photo: Courtesy of the artists
Meet the Finalists of the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize 2025
This year’s honorees were chosen by a panel of experts from over 4,600 submissions by artisans representing 133 countries and regions
The Loewe Foundation has announced the shortlist for its 2025 Craft Prize, selecting 30 artists from 18 countries. This group of finalists will present their works in an exhibition at the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid from May 30 to June 29.
The prize winner will be chosen on May 29 and announced during the exhibition’s opening ceremony. The winner, who is selected by a 13-person jury made up of leading figures in the world of design, architecture, journalism, and museum curatorship, will receive a $52,000 award.
“Year on year, it gives me such pleasure to see the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize provide a platform for extraordinary talent and change the perception of craft internationally,” says Sheila Loewe, president of the foundation. “Over the past decade, we have seen the Prize transform lives, careers, and build a global community. It is my great privilege to continue my family’s legacy.”
Scott Chaseling, Beyond a Slippery Grip . Photo: © The artist. Courtesy LOEWE FOUNDATION
Marie-Isabelle Poirier-Troyano, Feelings . Photo: © The artist. Courtesy LOEWE FOUNDATION
Jessica Costa, Sobejos XII. Photo: © the artist. Courtesy LOEWE FOUNDATION
Kobina Adusah, I Still Face You. Photo: © The artist. Courtesy LOEWE FOUNDATION
Many of the artists employ contemporary twists on ancient craft techniques, including basketry in clay, or weaving using metal or interesting reinterpretations of traditional motifs, while others have blazed their own trail creating singular works of the future.
Founded in 2016, the annual award pays tribute to the Spanish luxury house’s origins as a collective craft workshop dating back to 1846. This year, the award received more than 4,600 applicants from 133 countries and regions. Last year, the winner was the Mexican ceramic artist Andrés Anza with his towering, bulbous ceramic sculpture, I Only Know What I have Seen (2023), which the jury said “has an arresting and almost human presence that is at once figurative and abstract.”
Philip Eglin, Rosso. Photo: © The artist. Courtesy LOEWE FOUNDATION
Xiaodong Zhang, Good Fortune #2. Photo: © The artist. Courtesy LOEWE FOUNDATION
“The 2025 edition of the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize continues to explore the various ways artists reinterpret and modernize traditions,” says Anatxu Zabalbeascoa, executive secretary of the expert panel. “With each edition, the exhibition seeks to showcase extraordinary craftsmanship, demonstrating how artisans work with both precious and non-precious materials—using traditional hand-tools or cutting-edge technology—to shape a contemporary culture enriched by the talent of diverse and distant creative traditions.”
Lê Thúy, Time, comprised of Clock Pendulum 1, Clock Pendulum2, ‘Clock Pendulum 3. Photo: © The artist. Courtesy LOEWE FOUNDATION
Laura Mays, Fluvial. Photo: © The artist. Courtesy LOEWE FOUNDATION
The full list of shortlisted artists are:
Kobina Adusah (Ghana)
Kunimasa Aoki (Japan)
Akari Aso (Japan)
Caroline Broadhead (United Kingdom)
Scott Chaseling (Australia)
Rei Chikaoka (Japan)
Jessica Costa (Brazil)
Philip Eglin (United Kingdom)
Aspen Golann (United States of America)
hors-studio x Cécile Feilchenfeldt (France)
Agnes Husz (Hungary)
Mikio Ishiguro (Japan)
Empar Juanes (Spain)
Jungin Lee (Republic of Korea)
Fang Liang (People’s Republic of China)
Anina Major (The Bahamas)
Nifemi Marcus-Bello (Nigeria)
Laura Mays (Republic of Ireland)
Didi Ng (Hong Kong, SAR)
Dickens Otieno (Kenya)
Marie Isabelle Poirier Troyano (Spain)
Margaret Rarru Garrawurra (Australia)
Yeunhee Ryu (Republic of Korea)
Sunyi Shin (Sunny) (Republic of Korea)
Zsolt József Simon (Hungary)
Studio Sumakshi Singh (India)
Fumiki Taguchi (Japan)
Lê Thúy (Vietnam)
Matt Wedel (United States of America)
Xiaodong Zhang (People’s Republic of China)
Cover: Loewe Craft Prize 2025
Photo: Courtesy of the artists
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