Ulla von Brandenburg has been named as one of five artists who will compete for the prestigious Faber-Castell International Drawing Award 2015, alongside Ed Atkins (London), Anastasia Ax (Athens/Stockholm ), Aleksandra Chaushova (Brussels) and Julia Haller (Vienna).

In July 2015, the Faber-Castell International Drawing Award – a cooperation between the Neues Museum in Nuremberg and Faber-Castell – will be presented for the second time at the Neues Museum in Nuremberg. The prize is awarded to an international artist aged up to around 40 who works primarily in the medium of drawing and whose innovative practice demonstrates exceptional potential for future development. The broad range of contemporary approaches to drawing serves to illustrate the autonomy and continuing relevance of this medium, and the submitted artworks may also span multiple media. The prize includes a monetary award of €15,000. The Faber-Castell International Drawing Award was first presented in 2012, and the winner of the inaugural award was the American artist Trisha Donnelly.

The members of the panel on this occasion were Dr Marion Ackermann, Director of the Stiftung Kunstsammlung Nord rhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf; Prof Dr Daniel Birnbaum, Director of the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Karola Kraus, Director of Mumok, Vienna; Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director of the Serpentine Gallery, London; and Dirk Snauwaert, Director of Wiels, Brussels.

Works by all five nominated artists will be presented in a joint exhibition at the Neues Museum in Nuremberg this summer. Prior to the opening of the exhibition, a second international jury of experts will select the award winner from these five contenders. The official prize-giving ceremony will be held in conjunction with the exhibition opening on 16 July 2015.