The LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2025

When

30 May – 29 June, 2025.

Where

Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum

See the works in person at Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum,

Conceived in 2016, the annual LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize celebrates excellence, artistic merit, and newness in modern craftsmanship. Emphasising the importance of craft in contemporary culture, it also honours LOEWE’s beginnings as a collective craft workshop in 1846.

The eighth edition of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize presents a plurality of artisanal excellence that explores new material and creative possibilities. Chosen by a panel of experts from over 4,600 submissions by artisans representing 133 countries and regions, the showcase of 30 finalists spans 18 countries and regions.

An amalgamation of the palpable, the intuitive, and the time-worn, each of the finalists’ works reimagines tradition in ways that are playful and poignant. This year, each piece expresses a timely yearning for new models, systems, and sentiments.

The result is a spirited expansion of craft that opens new multidisciplinary frontiers.

Digital exhibition

Explore 30 shortlisted works alongside information about the shortlisted artists and their processes, as well as exclusive studio tours.

Lê Thúy'Time'

Devastated by the felling of 6700 old trees in Hanoi, the artist channels a spirit of memoriam in these polychromatic lacquer works. The concentric wood rings are created using traditional techniques, embracing meta-movements to mark the passage of time and imploring onlookers to preserve nature’s fragile vibrancy and reconsider acts of irreversible loss.