Ella Safi
Info
Light as material 







































































Design - Art direction


Ella Safi is a designer and artist based in Oslo exploring objects, space, and experiences through light and material. Her work consists of studies of form, material, light, space, and interaction.


Experience
Product Designer - Material artist
Ella Safi Studio - Oslo
2025 - present  

Founder - Researcher
Design Zeitgeist - Oslo
2025 - present

Interaction Designer
Visma - Oslo
2023 - present  

Automotive Interior Designer 
Cherry Europe - Frankfurt
2022 

Hospitality Assistant
The Thief - Oslo
2020 - 2022

Furniture Designer - intern
Anderssen & Voll - Oslo
2020 

Co-founder - Visual Designer 
04 Studio - Tehran
2016 - 2019

Musician &  Teacher
Saveh, Iran
2005 - 2010


Education
MA Product Design
OsloMet
2022

BA Industrial Design
Art University of Isfahan
2016



Press
Interiør & Møbler
Brasil­ia
2022

Tuvie
SS17 04 Studio
2017

Designboom
Photography
2016


Peter Fischli and David Weiss
Installation view
Monika Sprüth Galerie, 
Cologne, May 5–July 29, 1995
Carl Andre
Margit Endormie
Photo: Ronald Amstutz
Dia Art Foundation, New York
1989
Tony Cragg
Element plane
Mixed Materials
120 x 150 x 150 cm
Photo: Salvatore Licitra
1983
Joseph Beuys
Silver Broom and Broom without Bristles
Wood and horsehair encased in a sheet, with solid copper and felt.
Measurements: 130.00 x 51.00 cm
1972
Carl Andre
Wood Saw-Cut Exercise
Wood
61 × 8.9 × 8.9 cm
1958
Joseph Beuys
Fat Chair
Wooden chair, wax, fat, and wire
Martin Kippenberger
Not to Be the Second Winner
Aldo Rossi chair on base
1987
Joseph Beuys
Room 2
Hessischen Landesmuseum Darmstadt
Tony Cragg
Mortar and Pestle
Mixed media, 1985
225 x 120 x 350cm
Bruce Nauman
Untitled
Fibreglass
15 x 26 x 197cm
1967
Tony Cragg
George and the Dragon
1984
Blinky Palermo
installation view
Zigzag Incisions at CRAC Alsace
2017
Carl Andre
Angle - Element Series
Two element timber piece
1960
Wolfgang Laib
The Five Mountains Not to Climb On (Die fünf unbesteigbaren Berge) 
Hazelnut pollen, height: approximately 2 3/4 inches
1984
Peter Fischli and David Weiss
Ehre Mut Zuversicht 
Mixed media installation
variable dimensions
1985
Wolfgang Laib
Für einen anderen Körper (For Another Body)
Beeswax, brick construction, stucco
11 ½ × 5 ¼ × 13 feet
1988
Joseph Beuys
Gelose-Objekt
Gelatin, Wax, Transformer Part
20 cm x 35 cm x 35 cm
1969
Foto: Mario Gastinger
Carl Andre
Pyramid (Square Plan)
68 7/8 x 31 x 31 in
1959
Carl Andre
Philemon
Wood (western red cedar)
91 × 91 × 91 cm
1981
Joseph Beuys
Silver Broom and Broom without Bristles
Wood and horsehair encased in a sheet, with solid copper and felt.
Measurements: 130.00 x 51.00 cm
1972
Wolfgang Laib
Ohne Titel/Untitled
1987
Peter Fischli and David Weiss
Installation view
Monika Sprüth Galerie, 
Cologne, May 5–July 29
1995

Michelangelo Pistoletto
Division and Multiplication of the Mirror
Installation view of the P.S. 1 exhibition
October 2–November 27
1988























Email
Instagram
Pinterest
Are.na