Julian Voss-Andreae

Julian Voss-Andreae (b. 1970, Hamburg) is a German-born sculptor based in Portland, Oregon. He started out as a painter, then studied quantum physics and philosophy in Berlin, Edinburgh and Vienna. As a graduate student in Anton Zeilinger's group at the University of Vienna he was part of the small team whose 1999 experiment sent C60 "buckyball" molecules through a grating and recorded an interference pattern. At the time they were the largest objects shown to behave as quantum waves. He moved to the United States in 2000 and earned a BFA in sculpture from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2004. His work turns scientific data and concepts into sculpture: protein structures in folded steel, and figures built from parallel slabs that look solid from one angle and almost vanish from another, a metaphor for wave–particle duality. His 2009 exhibition "Quantum Objects" at the American Center for Physics was reviewed in Nature, and his public and private commissions stand at sites including CERN and Google.