The Sigg Prize 2025 has been awarded jointly to Hong Kong animator Wong Ping and Macau-raised artist Heidi Lau, marking the first time the contemporary art prize has been shared between two artists since it was first awarded in 2019.
The announcement was made on December 16 by M+, the museum in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District that organises the biennial competition named after the collector Uli Sigg.
“We were deeply impressed by the works presented and decided to award two winners in this edition,” said Suhanya Raffel, museum director of M+ and chairwoman of the prize, in a statement. “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.”
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The winners were selected after their commissioned projects were presented at the museum in September, together with works by four other shortlisted artists: Bi Rongrong, Ho Rui An, Hsu Chia-wei and Pan Daijing.
It has been nearly 15 years since Wong, born in 1984, began weaving his dark, explicit fairy tales in the form of cutesy cartoons and the flat aesthetics of early video games.
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