Now on its sixth edition, 30 finalists have been selected for the 2023 Loewe Foundation Craft Prize by an ‘Experts Panel’ consisting of LOEWE creative director Jonathan Anderson, Japan Folk Crafts Museum Tokyo director Naoto Fukasawa, Louvre Museum art department director Olivier Gabet, Loewe Craft Prize 2022 winner Dahye Jeong, National Museum of Korea former director Hongnam Kim, Loewe Foundation Honorary President Enrique Loewe, ceramist Magdalene Odundo, Pritzker Prize winner Wang Shu, Design Museum London director Deyan Sudjic, RIBA Stirling Prize winner Benedetta Tagliabue, Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Abraham Thomas, industrial designer Patricia Urquiola, El País architecture correspondent Anatxu Zabalbeascoa (chairwoman).
Out of 2700 submissions, the 30 shortlisted works range across mediums including ceramics, woodwork, textiles, furniture, paper, basketry, glass, metal, jeweler lacquer, leather and bookbinding. The artisans’ skillful experimentation of unexpected form and material, complete with trompe-l’oeil techniques and the distortion of light, incite playful and surprising results. All works will feature in an exhibition at the Noguchi Museum in New York running from May 17th to June 18th 2023, with the winner announced on May 16th, 2023.