Loewe Craft Prize 2026
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Submissions for the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2026 are now open.
Closing date: 30 Oct 2025
Launched in 2016, the award celebrates excellence, artistic merit, and newness in modern craft. It recognises uniquely talented artisans whose aesthetic vision, technical skill, and determination to innovate set new standards for the future of creativity on a global scale.
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 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.
