Sigg Prize 2025

Sigg Prize highlights the diverse artistic practices from the Greater China region and its diasporas. We are pleased to present interviews with the biennial award’s shortlisted artists from the 2025 edition, along with analyses and insights from contributors on the artistic landscape.

Artist Heidi Lau, with short black hair, sits at a table in an art studio, focused on crafting an intricate ceramic sculpture. In the foreground, a brick-red clay piece is visible, while large windows in the background reveal a blurry city skyline.

Heidi Lau: Touch, Memory, and Clay

3 Dec 2025 / M+ Team

Artist Heidi Lau treats clay as a collaborator. Her Sigg Prize 2025 presentation blends handbuilt forms, world-building, and robotics.

Artist Bi Rongrong, wearing glasses and a white shirt, is focused on her work in a gallery space. She is examining a piece of artwork in her hands, surrounded by various colourful art pieces displayed in the background.

Bi Rongrong: A World Woven

27 Nov 2025 / M+ Team

Artist Bi Rongrong’s woven practice reads the world as a living textile.

Artist Wong Ping, wearing a white shirt and deep blue trousers, is seen in a colourful room. He is adjusting a golf club inside a pink-and-white golf bag. The background features a variety of items, including a computer, shelving units, and plants, creating a vibrant workspace.

Wong Ping: A Light Touch

19 Nov 2025 / M+ Team

Artist Wong Ping creates playful, tension-filled animations, inviting viewers to assemble their own meaning.

Other Worlds, Weaving, and Shipwrecks: Three Perspectives on History

18 Nov 2025 / Ariadne Long

Ariadne Long, co-curator of the Sigg Prize 2025 exhibition, looks at how history and culture are reinterpreted through the works of three shortlisted artists: Heidi Lau, Bi Rongrong, and Hsu Chia-Wei.

Artist Ho Rui An walks along a pathway flanked by two tall stone pillars, which are engraved with the words ‘Faber’ and ‘Point’. In front of the pillars, vibrant green plants flourish, while trees stand in the background against a bright and clear sky.

Ho Rui An: Who Trains, Who Remembers

13 Nov 2025 / M+ Team

Artist Ho Rui An on generative AI, labour, and why protecting our shared image commons matters now.

Animation still, rendered in an isometric style, features a lone yellow parked car in front of a white building crowned by a statue of a golfer mid-swing. A large golf ball marks the building’s entrance. A golf course fills the background.

Echoes of Our Time: The Art Practices of Ho Rui An, Wong Ping and Pan Daijing

12 Nov 2025 / Pauline J. Yao

Pauline J. Yao, co-curator of the Sigg Prize 2025 exhibition, explores what it means to be a contemporary artist today through the works of Ho Rui An, Wong Ping, and Pan Daijing.

A person wearing a dark hoodie stands with their head slightly bowed, looking down. The background features a blurred landscape of grass and a road, with soft sunlight illuminating the area.

Pan Daijing: Unlearning Shortcuts

14 Oct 2025 / M+ Team

Pan Daijing builds worlds where time stretches and sound becomes space.

A person in a grey coat walks along a wooden pathway, positioned on the left half of the frame, in a covered archaeological site. Exposed soil and stone ruins are visible on either side, with metal rails on one side of the pathway. In the background, a building with a blue facade is visible.

Hsu Chia-Wei: Listening to the Past

9 Oct 2025 / M+ Team

Time, space, and sound converge in the submerged world of Hsu Chia-Wei.

Worlds Beyond Worlds: Art Making and Curating in the Sigg Prize 2025

29 Sept 2025 / Ariadne Long, Pauline J. Yao

Ariadne Long and Pauline J. Yao, curators of the Sigg Prize 2025 exhibition, offer insight into the unique curatorial challenges of creating an award exhibition and introduce the works of the six shortlisted artists.

Installation featuring an oval conference table, swivel chairs, and computer monitors, set within a white-walled room. An image on a large, suspended monitor behind the table depicts men in business attire seated around a conference table, mirroring the physical setup of the installation.

Structures of Feeling on China in the Multipolar Art World

25 Sept 2025 / Mi You

Professor Mi You examines how Chinese and Chinese diaspora artists navigate changing global currents through reflections on globalisation, representation, and the Sigg Prize.

A colour Polaroid stuck to a red brick wall shows a woman in a white dress and black leggings entering an antique shop. Her back to the camera, she opens a red door. The shop’s front window displays shelves of statues and vases.

Escaping an Objectified World: Constructing Immanence in Contemporary Art

21 Aug 2025 / Chelsea Qianxi Liu

Sigg Prize 2025 nominator and Beijing-based curator Chelsea Liu Qianxi writes about the new artistic landscape shaped by the volatile international climate of the post-COVID-19 era. She observes artists’ growing tendency to turn inward, and explores how this shift enables them to reinterpret the world from within.

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