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Kunimasa Aoki Captures 2025 Loewe Craft Prize with Anamorphic Terracotta Sculpture

Finalist works highlighted innovations in traditional techniques at Madrid’s Thyssen-Bornemisza museum, remaining on view through June 29.

Loewe Craft Prize 2025
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‘Monument’ (2024), by Studio Sumakshi Singh, is a life-size reimagining of a column from a 12th-century colonnade in Delhi, made using copper zari, a metallic thread

Overview

  • Kunimasa Aoki received the top award and €50,000 prize for his sculpture Realm of Living Things 19, an anamorphic terracotta piece built coil by coil.
  • The jury praised Aoki’s work for its “honest expression of the ancestral coil process” and its exploration of gravity, time and pressure in raw clay.
  • Nigerian artist Nifemi Marcus-Bello earned a special mention for TM Bench with Bowl and Studio Sumakshi Singh was honored for her Monument installation.
  • The 10th edition of the prize drew over 4,500 submissions from 132 countries, with 30 finalists selected by a 12-member expert panel.
  • Established in 2016 by Jonathan Anderson, the prize has grown into a global community of more than 240 artisans and will remain on view through June 29.