Craft Prize 2026

About the Open Call

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. The prize involves a digital exhibition presenting shortlisted pieces, artists' insights, and studio tours. Finalists' works span mediums like ceramics, woodwork, textiles, furniture, paper, glass, metal, jewellery, and lacquer.

What is Offered

The winner receives a 50,000 Euros cash award. The prize also includes participation in a digital exhibition for finalists and the opportunity for international recognition.

Requirements

All participants must be professional artisans 18 years or older. Entries may be made by an individual or collective. All nationalities are welcome. The work must demonstrate artistic intent and technical proficiency, be an original piece (handmade or partly handmade), recently created (in the last five years), one-of-a-kind, not previously won any prizes, be innovative in updating tradition, and fall within applied arts categories such as ceramics, bookbinding, enamelwork, jewellery, lacquer, metal, furniture, leather, textiles, glass, paper, wood, etc.

How to Apply

Read the Rules of Entry and make sure you comply with all requirements. Complete the online registration in English, providing 2 to 5 photographs of the work (or series) and optionally a video, along with a brief conceptual statement about the work. Submit your application by 30 October 2025.