OPEN SUBMISSIONS: LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2020
LOEWE is pleased to open submissions for the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2020, and to announce that it will take place in Paris at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Submissions for the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2020 will be accepted until 30 October 2019.
The 2019 edition of the prize received over 2,500 submissions from 100 countries across the globe; potential candidates for this year’s edition are invited to study the guidelines and submit work at loewecraftprize.com.
The LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize was launched in 2016 to showcase and celebrate excellence, artistic merit and originality in modern craftsmanship. It seeks to acknowledge and support international artisans who demonstrate an exceptional ability to create objects of superior aesthetic value, with the winner receiving 50,000 Euros.
The award, which was conceived by LOEWE’s creative director Jonathan Anderson, aims to acknowledge the importance of craft in today’s culture and recognise working artisans whose talent, vision and will to innovate set a standard for the future. The incentive for the prize goes back to LOEWE’s beginnings as a collective craft workshop in 1846.
Jonathan Anderson states ‘the fourth edition of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize promises to build on the high standard set by our previous editions. It has been gratifying to see how the Prize has been recognised as an important platform for craft and its role in today’s culture.’
An expert panel composed of artists, artisans, essayists, curators and designers will consider all submitted works in order to select a shortlist of up to 30 submissions. New additions to the expert panel this year include, Hyeyoung Cho (Secretary General at the Korea Craft and Design Foundation), Rodman Primack (Global Ambassador for Design Miami), Koichi Io (metal artist and finalist of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2019) and Sylvie Vandenhoucke, glass artist and finalist of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2017. 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.
These shortlisted works will then form the basis of an exhibition due to go on display at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, from which the Prize’s Jury will select thewinning piece. The Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris was founded in 1882 to promote the applied arts and develop links between industry and culture. New members of the jury for 2020 include Olivier Gabet, (Director of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris), and Genta Ishizuka (Winner of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2019).
The winner of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize this year, Genta Ishizuka, was announced on 25 June 2019 during the opening ceremony of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2019 exhibition at the Sogetsu Kaikan, Tokyo.
The winner of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2020 will be announced in Paris in Spring 2020.
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