M+, Hong Kong, has jointly awarded the 2025 Sigg Prize to Heidi Lau and Wong Ping. This marks the first time the prize was awarded to two separate artists. They were selected from a shortlist also including Bi Rongrong, Ho Rui An, Hsu Chia-Wei and Pan Daijing.
Lau and Wong will each receive HKD 300,000, while each shortlisted artist will receive HKD 100,000.
The jury of the 2025 edition is chaired by Suhanya Raffel, director of M+, Hong Kong, and composed of Maria Balshaw, director of Tate, UK; Gong Yan, director and artistic director of Power Station of Art, Shanghai; Mami Kataoka, director of Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Glenn D. Lowry, former director of MoMA, New York; Uli Sigg, collector and member of the M+ Board, Switzerland and Xu Bing, artist, Beijing.
Heidi Lau, born in Oakland and based in New York and Macau, received her BFA from New York University. Her work draws on ancient mythology and Taoist philosophy to suggest alternate configurations of time and space through her ceramic practice. For the Sigg Prize, she presented the large-scale ceramic sculpture installation Pavilion Procession (2025) featuring kinetic spiders and inspired by mythologies of Shanhaijing and the artist’s experience of grief. Writing in ArtReview Asia, Aaina Bhargava described how Lau’s work ‘grounds the magical and spiritual in her ceramics, speaking to the connection between the earthly and the divine’.
Born and based in Hong Kong, Wong Ping received his BFA from Curtin University in Perth. Through animations, graphic design and installations he creates vivid, dreamlike worlds that reflect modern society and allude to social and political issues. For the Sigg Prize, he presented Debts in the Wind (2025), a video installation taking the shape of a golf course and presenting a satirical narrative. In her review, Bhargava described how the artist connects ‘golf’s associations with the wealthy and elite… to local/social incidents, including a land dispute related to the building of a new golf course in Hong Kong during the 2010s, to reflect and comment on social inequalities and touchy subjects that range from politics to sex.’
The work of all shortlisted artists is on view at M+, Hong Kong, through 4 January.
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