Art publishing

In 2013, Maeght Éditeur published a first edition of his works: Poésies dessinées, a collection of lithograph-printed leporello books; followed by Rubâi’yât and Ah! Sunflower, two hand-painted and hand-torn carousel books, presented in a limited edition, numbered and signed box set. Les Éditions du Livre published Bloom in 2021, followed by Village in 2025, two textless books printed in five spot colours, somewhere between an artist's book and a design object. In 2022, Atelier RLD published two series of prints, La gymnastique des objets, 45 wood engravings, and Fleurs, 3 wood engravings, in limited, numbered and signed editions. On the occasion of her exhibition at the Biennale Itinéraires Graphiques in November 2024, OK DES Paris published 4 silver silkscreen prints and a series of embossed cards printed with a gold stamp. These editions were exhibited at the Ponding Space gallery in Taiwan. Since 2016, Julie Safirstein has also been participating in Livres Pauvres, a collection of painted and handwritten books initiated by collector Daniel Leuwers and exhibited at the Musée Ronsard in Tours.

Children’s publishing

In 2013, Julie Safirstein had two memory games published by MeMo Éditions, followed by Le jour la nuit tout autour, a large-format imagier, published by Hélium. This book won the Prix Sorcières awarded by the ABF and ASLJ, and the Aide à la Création Artistique et Littéraire from the Conseil Général du Val-de-Marne. Julie Safirstein is also the author of Et j'ai rêvé le jour, published by Albin Michel Jeunesse, for which she received the Création d'Aide à l'Écriture grant awarded by the Centre National du Livre. Her next album, a large-format book with embossed pages printed in spot colours, will be released in 2026 by Les Grandes Personnes.

Exhibitions

Julie Safirstein has exhibited her studio work - drawings, paintings, paper sculptures and immersive installations - on several occasions at the La Hune Brenner gallery (Paris) and the 0fr gallery (Paris). In 2020, she created Hexacolore, an immersive installation built from six painted wooden panels, cut out and partially covered with mirrors, co-produced by the Centre Georges Pompidou and Mille forme. Hexacolore was exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and at the Centre d'art Mille formes in Clermont Ferrand. It is touring since, travelling to a number of venues in France and abroad. Julie Safirstein also designs outdoor exhibitions, such as Face à face, an exhibition on the panels of the Cours Jean-Jaurès in Moulin as part of the Biennale des Illustrateurs 2021. In 2024, she participated in the group exhibition Panorama at the Faouedic Gallery (Lorient) during the Itinéraires Graphiques biennial - curated by Sébastien Esteban Desplat, alongside artists Pierre Charpin, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Damien Poulain and Yûchi Yokohama in 2024. In 2025, she participated in the group exhibition Des designers et des jouets at Studio Fotokino (Marseille) and, as part of the exhibition, created Constellation, an installation featuring five large mobiles made of paper and painted fabric.

Scenography

As a scenographer, she created in 2019 La forêt lunaire, for the Hermès store rue de Sèvres in Paris, windows and interior. For this project, she designed the windows display, some "shelf-shapes" for the Petit h space, a monumental suspended forest, and produced paintings on leather for the placemats in the café-restaurant. Since then, she has worked regularly with Hermès on a range of scenographic projects, including Chants Grecs in 2021 for the windows display of the rue de Sèvres store in Paris, or Paysages rêvés in 2023 for the window displays of two Hermès stores at the Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport and the window display of the Hermès store at the Istanbul airport (Turkey). In 2025, she created Méditerranée, a paper and painted fabric decoration representing a greek village for the summer window displays of La Maison de Commerce, Boulevard Saint Germain in Paris.

Web serie - animated films

Julie Safirstein took part in the Centre Pompidou web series Mon petit œil, making three short animated films: Rythme Bleu, Rythme Rouge and Rythme Vert.

Object and furniture design

Hermès Petit h published Julie Safirstein first design piece in 2022, Bibliothèque Cheval, a bookcase representing a two-meter-high Trojan horse, entirely sheathed in leather and silk, as a one-off. She has since designed three other bookcases for Hermès Petit h: Bibliothèque Éléphant, Étagère Faisan and Bibliothèque Dragon. These pieces were presented during the Hermès Petit h stopovers in Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Bangkok (Thailand), Osaka (Japan) and Beijing (China).

Illustrations & Events

Julie Safirstein regularly collaborates with the press (press illustrations for Air France Magazine, novel cover illustrations for École des Loisirs) and events (menu design, place cards and illustrations for launches: Harper's Bazaar magazine at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, American Friends dinner at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, with Bureau FM-François Motte).

Textile design

Julie Safirstein collaborates with the fashion industry, creating designs and patterns for textiles brands such as Arrels Barcelona : Shapes collection in 2021 and Hellas collection in 2025 (men's swimwear, shirts, T-shirts, hoodies and trousers). She also contributes to collections of artist-designed embroidered blazons and badges published by Blazers Blasons: Cheval and Anémone in the Cheval et Botanique collection in 2023, and Coeur d'artichaut in the Poche de coeur et dos brodé collection, a four-handed project with artist Paul Cox in 2025.

Awards & Grants

• 2026, NEW HORIZONS - BolognaRaggazzi Awards for Village, pubished by Éditions du Livre

• 2026, Coup de coeur des Trophées de l’ÉditionAwards organised by Livre Hebdo for Village, published by Éditions du Livre

• 2022, Coup de coeur du Jury Awards in the Artist’s Book category of the Grand Est Book Award for Bloom, published by Éditions du Livre

• 2020, Création d’Aide à l’Écriture Grant awarded by the Centre National du Livre for Et j’ai rêvé le jour, published by Albin Michel Jeunesse

• 2013, Prix Sorcières awarded by the ABF and the ASLJ for Le jour la nuit tout autour, published by Éditions Hélium

• 2013, Aide à la Création Littéraire et Artistique du Conseil Général du Val de Marne Grant awarded for Le jour la nuit tout autour, published by Éditions Hélium. This album was given to the 20,000 newborns in the department in 2014.

Bibliography

• 2026 Paréidolie, Éditions Les Grandes Personnes

• 2025 Village, Éditons du Livre

• 2021 Et j’ai rêvé le jour, Albin Michel Jeunesse

• 2020 Bloom, Éditions du Livre

• 2017 Night and day, Princeton Architectural Press

• 2017 Ah! Sunflower, Maeght Éditeur

• 2014 Le jour la nuit tout autour, Éditions Hélium

• 2014 Rubai’yât, Maeght Éditeur

• 2013 Poisson d’avril, Maeght Éditeur

• 2013, Les papillons, Maeght Éditeur

• 2013, En sortant de l’école, Maeght Éditeur

• 2012 Mémo des fleurs, Éditions MeMo

• 2012 Mémo des feuilles, Éditions MeMo

• Depuis 2014 Collection des Livres Pauvres de Daniel Leuwers