Spanish artist Empar Juanes is one of the 30 international finalists for the prestigious LOEWE Foundation Craft Prize 2025. Her submitted work AURA is currently on display at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid.
The award recognises international craftspeople and artists aged 18 and over who reinterpret traditional techniques with their personal design language and high aesthetic quality. The aim of the award is to make the cultural value of contemporary craftsmanship visible and to emphasise its relevance for our time.
The award is endowed with prize money of €50,000 and is one of the most prestigious honours in the field of applied art. The aim of the LOEWE FOUNDATION is to make the creative contribution of arts and crafts visible and to offer innovative positions an international platform.
AURA is a series of brooches and necklaces that moves between sculpture and jewellery. With reduced, architectural forms, Juanes explores the boundaries between body and space - some pieces nestle, others float, creating emptiness and movement.
Stone is her central material - discovered during an exchange semester at the Gemstone and Jewellery Campus in Idar-Oberstein. Since then, it has characterised her work as a medium of expression between weight and lightness.
Empar Juanes (1990, lives in Alfarb, Spain) studied architecture in Valencia and art/design in Maastricht. Her work has been exhibited internationally and was most recently honoured with the Herbert Hofmann Prize 2024.
The Craft Prize exhibition can be seen free of charge in Madrid until 29 June 2025.
You can find more information about Empar Juanes here.
Further information on the LOEWE Craft Prize can be found here.
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