Heidi Lau and Wong Ping Win M+’s 2025 Sigg Prize
70Dec. 18, 2025
M+ contemporary art museumin Hong Kong has namedHeidi LauandWong Pingas the recipients of the 2025Sigg Prize. Their win marks the first time that two artists have shared the biennial prize since its 2018 inception. The Oakland, California–born Lau, who lives and works between New York and Macau, won on the strength ofPavilion Procession, 2025, a large-scale installation exploring the collective experience of mourning and featuring a kinetic spider constructed from ceramic and mechanical components. Wong, who lives and works in his native Hong Kong, was honored for his 2025 video installationDebts in the Wind, incorporating a miniature theater-cum–miniature golf course to explore “themes of violence, power, desire, and absence,” per his gallery, Kiang Malingue.
“Heidi Lau and Wong Ping, in their own compelling ways, demonstrate bold possibilities for expression through their distinctive use of medium and mature artistic languages, offering profound insights into the complexities of our shared experience,” said M+ director Suhanya Raffel, and chairwoman of theSigg Prize, in a statement.
The Sigg Prize celebrates contemporary artists from greater China and its diaspora. In addition to Raffel, this year’s jury comprised Maria Balshaw, director of London’s Tate; Gong Yan, director and artistic director of Shanghai’s Power Station of Art; Mami Kataoka, director of the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Glenn D. Lowry, former director of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Switzerland-based collector Uli Sigg, a member of the M+ board; and Beijing-based artist Xu Bing.
Lau and Wong were chosen from among a list of six shortlisted artists, additionally including Bi Rongrong, Ho Rui An, Hsu Chia-Wei, and Pan Daijing. Lau and Wong will each receive HKD 300,000 (about $39,000), while each of the shortlisted artists will be awarded HKD 100,000 (about $13,000). The work of all six is currently on view at M+ in the 2025 Sigg Prize exhibition, which runs through January 4, 2026.