Sigg Prize 2023: Shortlisted Artists and Insights into Contemporary Chinese Art

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Jes Fan: Beyond Appearances

Jes Fan’s sculptures fuse human-made and organic elements, inviting visceral responses that question binary thinking

A person standing in a studio space, facing the camera, with wooden sculptural artworks in the background.

Miao Ying: Pixelated Pasts

Miao Ying explores Chinese internet culture through installations and simulations that challenge our perceptions

A person standing in front of a cloth artwork featuring three 'no U-turn' symbols on a black background.

Wang Tuo: Time Refracted

Wang Tuo’s films blend interviews, reality shows, and theatre, exposing society’s absurdities and intertwining histories

A waist-up photograph of a man looking directing into the camera. Artworks lean against the wall in the background.

Xie Nanxing: The Painted Struggle

Xie Nanxing’s radical paintings challenge tradition, using humour and absurdity to reflect on isolation and environmental neglect

A waist-up portrait of a man standing on a rooftop in Hong Kong. The background features green mountains.

Trevor Yeung: Hanging in Limbo

Trevor Yeung’s mixed media works delve into human relations, artificial nature, and emotional scenarios

A waist-up portrait of a woman wearing a dark baseball cap, taken outdoors as she gazes directly into the camera.

Yu Ji: Materials in Motion

Yu Ji’s sculptures and installations evoke eerie disengagement, exploring complex relationships between people and things

A person stands in a darkened gallery space. In the background, there are display screens of moving image artworks.

The Endless Marathon: Sigg Prize Winner Wang Tuo on Making Art

Wang Tuo, winner of the 2023 Sigg Prize, discusses the inspiration behind the interconnected storylines in his moving image oeuvre and his thoughts on winning the 2023 prize

An image of palm trees in the foreground with a multistory building in the background. The building has a sign along the top that reads ‘For a brighter future’.

Visual Aftershocks: The Works of Trevor Yeung, Wang Tuo, and Miao Ying in the Sigg Prize 2023 Exhibition

Ariadne Long examines the works by Trevor Yeung, Wang Tuo, and Miao Ying in the Sigg Prize 2023 exhibition to see how they have captured these visual materials and incorporated them into narratives and works that relate to the past, present, and future.

In a spacious gallery with white walls and bamboo flooring, there are several free-standing sculptures. Within the room, two individuals are present. One of them directs their attention towards an artwork concealed behind a wall, which remains hidden from our view.

Exploring and Expanding Representations of the Body with Yu Ji, Xie Nanxing, and Jes Fan

When does a representation of the body reveal deeper human truths?

A person stands in front of an L-shaped exhibition wall in blue, printed with the words 'Sigg Prize 2023' in white. On the wall are five screens playing videos.

Sigg Prize 2023: Looking within and Moving On

Isabella Tam, curator of the Sigg Prize 2023 exhibition, gives insight into the practices of the six shortlisted artists and their presented works

Two videos are played on two screens in a darkened gallery space. Cushions are placed on the floor for viewers. The left screen shows a man smoking against a blue background and the right screen shows a gathering of revolutionaries wearing white.

Fission and Isolation: Two Forces that Shaped the Development of Contemporary Chinese Art since 2019

Yang Zi, Beijing-based and one of the Sigg Prize 2023 nominators, shares his insights on how international developments from 2019 to the present have impacted artistic creation and how Chinese artists are moving forward in a society shaken by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Aerial view of the Mekong River flowing across a territory. The water is brown with sediment and the two banks, which occupy the top and bottom of the image, are lined with small, rectangular settlements or wells that are either white or brown in colour. Further from the river, the land is sparse with green vegetation.

Fluid Borders: Place and Belonging in Contemporary Art

Magdalena Magiera, Curator and Research Associate at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore and a nominator for Sigg Prize 2023, writes about how art can make space for communal sharing and experiences.

With his arms crossed, a man in blue blazer stands in front of a small white sculpture, which is next to a metal structure with silk cloth on. Another man wearing a light blue scarf stands in the back of him.

Art Awards and the Present —To the Finalists of Sigg Prize 2023

Artist Xu Bing writes about the importance of art prizes to inspire artists to continue their creative practices in today’s complex global context.

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