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LOEWE opens submissions for 2024 LOEWE Foundation craft prize

LOEWE have announced open submissions for the LOEWE Foundation craft prize 2024, which will take place in Paris in spring next year. Entries to the seventh edition of the prize will be accepted until October 25.

According to the organizers, the 2023 edition of the prize received over 2,700 total submissions from over 100 countries and regions across the globe; potential candidates for next year’s edition are invited to submit work on their website.

The LOEWE FOUNDATION craft prize was launched in 2016 to showcase excellence, artistic merit and newness in modern craftsmanship. It seeks to acknowledge and support international artists who demonstrate an exceptional ability to create objects of superior aesthetic value, with the winner receiving 50,000 euros and two special mentions receiving 10,000 euros.

Conceived by creative director Jonathan Anderson, the award aims to acknowledge the importance of craft in today’s culture. In celebrating the joy of making things with your hands and recognising working artists whose talent, vision and will to innovate set a standard for the future, the prize pays tribute to LOEWE’s own beginnings as a collective craft workshop in 1846.

Jonathan Anderson stated “Craft is always going to be modern. It is about creating objects that have a formula of their own and speak their own language, creating a dialogue that didn’t exist before. It is about newness as much as it is about tradition.”

An expert panel composed of artists, essayists, curators and designers will consider all submitted works in order to select a shortlist of up to 30 submissions. New additions to this year’s expert panel include glass artist and 2023 finalist, Keeryong Choi; metal artist and 2023 Craft Prize finalist, Kaori Juzu. The panel’s choice will be based on a number of key criteria: originality, clear artistic vision and merit, precise execution, material excellence, innovative value, and a distinct authorial mark.

The shortlisted works will then form the basis of an exhibition due to go on display in Paris, from which the prize jury will select the winning piece. This year, new jury members include president of the LOEWE FOUNDATION, Sheila Loewe, who joins as the new chairwoman, architect Minsuk Cho and winner of the LOEWE FOUNDATION craft prize 2023, Eriko Inazaki.

Inazaki was announced as this year’s winner on May 16 at the opening of the 2023 LOEWE FOUNDATION craft prize exhibition at Isamu Noguchi’s studio at The Noguchi Museum, New York, alongside a digital exhibition opening.
The winner of the LOEWE FOUNDATION craft prize 2024 will be announced at the opening ceremony in Paris.

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