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M+, Asia’s global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, announces Heidi Lau and Wong Ping as joint winners of the Sigg Prize 2025. This is the first time the prize has honoured two artists whose contrasting approaches offer equally profound reflections on contemporary life. Their works are featured in the Sigg Prize 2025 exhibition in The Studio, presented with pieces by four other shortlisted artists, including Bi Rongrong, Ho Rui An, Hsu Chia-Wei, and Pan Daijing, with free entry until 4 January 2026.
The Sigg Prize jury comments on both winners: ‘Heidi Lau’s Procession Pavilion manifests visceral energy and intricate references to mythology and hybridity, which she reimagines using clay as a medium and metaphor for mourning. Her spatial arrangement of fragile ceramic objects invites viewers to reconsider conventional standards of beauty and imperfection. The work is both emotionally resonant and conceptually rigorous, offering a compelling reflection on the human capacity to embrace sorrow and grief as a powerful source of creativity.
Wong Ping’s Debts in the Wind creates a whimsical mise en scène that juxtaposes fantastical elements and real-life situations. Through a set of loosely connected narratives centred on a golf course, all voiced by Wong himself, he forms a poetic, stream-of-consciousness way of storytelling. What stood out is his sophisticated blend of mesmerising visuals and dark humour that informs his acute observation and sensitivity to mundane life.’
The third edition of the Sigg Prize is chaired by Suhanya Raffel (Museum Director, M+, Hong Kong). Members of the international jury include Maria Balshaw (Director, Tate, United Kingdom); Gong Yan (Director and Artistic Director, Power Station of Art, Shanghai); Mami Kataoka (Director, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo); Glenn D. Lowry (the former David Rockefeller Director, The Museum of Modern Art, New York); Dr Uli Sigg (collector and member of the M+ Board, Switzerland); and Xu Bing (artist, Beijing).
Established in 2018, the Sigg Prize celebrates outstanding contemporary artists from Greater China and its diasporas, spotlighting the region’s vibrant cultural landscape. Each edition awards HKD 1,000,000 in total, with HKD 100,000 allocated to each shortlisted artist and the remaining amount granted to the winner.
The exhibition is co-curated by Ariadne Long (Associate Curator, Visual Art, M+, Hong Kong) and Pauline J. Yao (Guest Curator); assisted by Mankit Lai (Curatorial Assistant, M+, Hong Kong). It is generously supported by Lead Sponsor Cathay and Hotel Partner Rosewood Hong Kong.
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About Heidi Lau
Heidi Lau (born 1987, Oakland, works New York and Macau) received her BFA from New York University. Drawing on ancient mythology and Taoist philosophy, Lau proposes alternate configurations of time and space through her ceramic practice, channelling generative diasporic perspectives through ritual, grief, and memory. She has held solo exhibitions at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn (2022), and the Macau-China Collateral Exhibition at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019). Her work has been presented in the Shanghai Biennale (2023); UCCA Dune, Beijing (2022); and the Shanghai Museum of Glass (2020).
About Wong Ping
Wong Ping (born 1984, Hong Kong, works Hong Kong) received his BFA from Curtin University in Perth. An animator and graphic designer, Wong creates vivid, dreamlike worlds that reflect modern society while alluding to social and political issues. He has held solo exhibitions at the Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna (2023); the New Museum, New York (2021); the Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2019), and Camden Art Centre, London (2019). His work has been presented at Somerset House, London (2024), and Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul (2022).
