EVENT DESCRIPTION
This exhibition brings together new and recent works by six artists shortlisted for the Sigg Prize 2025. Established in 2018 by M+, this prestigious prize is open to artists born or working in the Greater China region and its diasporas. It aims to recognise important artistic practices in the region and to promote the strength and diversity of Chinese artists on an international platform. For the third edition, M+ will showcase the works of six leading contemporary artists, including Bi Rongrong, Ho Rui An, Hsu Chia-Wei, Heidi Lau, Pan Daijing, and Wong Ping. All born in the 1980s and 1990s, these artists represent the youngest and most diverse cohort of finalists to date. Working across mediums from ceramics and textiles to virtual reality and AI, their works explore cultural memory, history, and technology.
The six finalists were selected by an international jury chaired by Suhanya Raffel (Museum Director, M+, Hong Kong), with members Maria Balshaw (Director, Tate, United Kingdom), Mami Kataoka (Director, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo), Gong Yan (Director, Power Station of Art, Shanghai), Glenn D. Lowry (The David Rockefeller Director, Museum of Modern Art, New York), Uli Sigg (collector and member of the M+ Board, Switzerland), and Xu Bing (artist, Beijing).
The winner of the Sigg Prize 2025 will be announced in December 2025.
ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER
Bi Rongrong (born 1982, Ningbo, works Shanghai) received her MA in traditional Chinese landscape painting at Sichuan University in 2008, followed by an MFA in painting from the Frank Mohr Institute in the Netherlands. In recent years, her creative approach has involved collecting and extracting patterns from nature, architecture, and everyday objects. Working across various mediums, from painting and textile to animation and installation, Bi seeks out new ways to create organic connections between materials. She was a resident at TaDA – Textile and Design Alliance in 2024 and participated in the 4th Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art at the Zhejiang Art Museum in 2022.Ho Rui An (born 1990, Singapore, works Singapore) holds a BA in fine art and art history from Goldsmiths University and an MA in anthropology from Columbia University. Known for his lecture performances, Ho recently expanded his practice to installation and film. He often maps and traces the forces that shape geopolitics, globalisation, and media production. He has held a solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2021), and his work has been presented in the Centre Pompidou, Paris (2024); Centre for Heritage, Arts & Textile, Hong Kong (2024); 14th Shanghai Biennale (2023); and Singapore Art Museum (2022).
Hsu Chia-Wei (born 1983, Taichung, works Taipei and Maastricht) graduated from Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in 2016. As an artist, filmmaker, and curator, Hsu works primarily in moving image, exploring transregional history and memory as well as the connections between humans, materials, and places overlooked in dominant historical narratives. In 2018, he held a feature screening exhibition at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. His work has been presented in the Hong Gah Museum, Taipei (2024); 3rd Thailand Biennale, Chiang Rai (2023); 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane (2021); and esea contemporary, Manchester (2019).
Heidi Lau (born 1987, Oakland, works New York and Macau) received her BFA from New York University. Drawing inspiration from ancient mythology and Taoist philosophy, Lau proposes alternate configurations of time and space through her ceramic practice, channelling generative diasporic perspectives through ritual, grief, and memory. She has held solo exhibitions at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn (2022) and the Macau-China Collateral Exhibition at the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2019). Her work has been presented in the 14th Shanghai Biennale (2023); UCCA Dune, Beijing (2022); and Shanghai Museum of Glass (2020).
Pan Daijing (born 1991, Guiyang, works Berlin) is an artist and composer whose artistic practice lies at the intersection of visual art and music. Informed by her background as a composer, musician, and performer, Pan engages primarily with sound, film, performance, installation, and choreography. Pan has held solo exhibitions at the Haus der Kunst, Munich (2024); Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2021); and Tate Modern, London (2019), with an upcoming exhibition at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, in 2025. Her work has been presented in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (2023) and 13th Shanghai Biennale (2021).
Wong Ping (born 1984, Hong Kong, works Hong Kong) received his BFA from Curtin University in Perth. An animator and graphic designer, Wong creates vivid, dreamlike worlds that reflect modern society while alluding to social and political issues. He has held solo exhibitions at the Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna (2023); New Museum, New York (2021); and Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (2019). His work has been presented at Somerset House, London (2024), and Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul (2022).
