Heidi Lau and Wong Ping Share 2025 Sigg Prize as M+ Awards Dual Winners for First Time

On December 16, the M+ museum in Hong Kong announced that Heidi Lau and Wong Ping will be sharing the 2025 Sigg Prize, marking a first for co-recipients. Each artist will receive HKD 300,000 (about USD 38,600). Additionally, four other nominees—Bi Rongrong, Ho Rui An, Hsu Chia-Wei, and Pan Daijing—will each get HKD 100,000 (around USD 12,900). The jury, led by M+ director Suhanya Raffel, commended the artists for their unique approaches that reflect important aspects of contemporary life. Lau’s work, Pavilion Procession (2025), features a large ceramic installation, while Wong presents Debts in the Wind (2025) in a miniature theater format. The exhibition showcasing all six finalists runs until January 4, 2026. Established in 2018, the prize aims to promote contemporary artists from Greater China and its diasporas, with jurors including Maria Balshaw from Tate, London, and Uli Sigg, a board member of M+.