Explore the Artworks of Ata Bozaci
Ata Bozaci (also known as Toast) is an outstanding reference point. His work operates at the intersection of urban art, figurative expression, typography, and space – with a clear design language that is often reduced, deliberate, yet always rooted in the urban context.
Inspired by the raw honesty of street art, the clarity of typography, and the rhythm of architecture.
Hes creative journey ranges from graffiti to digital portraits to modular letter architecture. His vision of creating buildings as legible, walk-in sculptures made of letters is unique to date—and opens up exciting perspectives on the interplay of art, space, and language. A building that, from all sides, is not just a structure but a legible landmark: this is precisely the next major step in his aesthetic exploration.
2025
TOAST Superbold
82 x 56 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2025
Letters are shapes inspired by nature. Good architecture is also based on nature. Our sense of proportion, or what we find beautiful or unattractive, comes from nature too. The human anatomy plays an important role in this. When you understand the human body, you can also understand how architecture works. That’s why letters, nature, humans, and architecture are closely connected.
Graffitecture
Pencil on paper | 2025
E-House
Graffitecture
Pencil on paper | 2025
2024
Hype Balloon, Virgin
Inflatable sculpture, PVC
Installation view,
Jetzt Kunst
Freibad Marzili, Bern
Bärengasse, Zürich | 2024
The inflated HYPE sculpture reflects the phenomenon of filling a thin and pretty shell with nothing but hot air, making it appear simple and shallow in meaning yet bold and impressive in appearance. Every 15 minutes, the HYPE inflates and then collapses again, deflating back into itself. In its rhythmic rise and fall, the sculpture becomes a metaphor for the ephemeral nature of hype culture itself – ever-changing, unstable, and ultimately hollow at its core.
Die Fliege
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2024
A small organism as an architectural masterpiece: With “The Fly”, Ata Bozaci reveals the hidden structural intelligence of nature. The finely drawn body reveals biomechanical precision – wings as supporting structures, eyes as domes. A homage to architecture in a microcosm.
2023
Die drei Muskeltiere
70 x 100 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2023
Ata Bozaci plays with the famous trio’s name and combines it with the image of physical strength – inspired by Arnold Schwarzenegger as an icon of muscle culture. The exaggerated bodies resemble architectural pillars – powerful and shaping. In this way, the “Muscle Animals” become symbols of strength and society, creating an image suspended between heroism and irony.
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FS Boardslide
FS Bluntslide
100 x 100 cm
Laser sublimation on wood | 2023
What’s left
8 x 3 m
Mixed media on mural, graffiti
Nychos Birthday Celebration
Hartberg | 2023
This small gift is intended by the artist to the community of Hartberg. Nychos, a longtime friend and graffiti artist, invited various artists to his birthday celebration. Ata Bozaci spent three days with his family in Styria, Austria and painted a completely reduced “Toast” in the entrance area of the public swimming facility.
Toast
12 x 4 m
Mixed media on mural, graffiti
Kunstby Festival,
Næstved | 2023
The Kunstby Festival in Næstved, Denmark celebrates graffiti, music, and dance. Founded by graffiti veterans CMP and Swet, it brings top names from hip-hop, graffiti, and skateboarding to the city. Even Mary, the Crown Princess of Denmark didn't miss the chance and took the can in her royal hands. This time graffiti greats like Loomit, Won ABC and others were there. As a representative for the Swiss graffiti scene Ata Bozaci (Toast) was invited to paint.
Rhythm of the desert 01 Rhythm of the desert 05
100 x 100 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2022
The series “Rhythm of a desert” was created shortly after a trip to the USA. For six weeks, the Bozaci family traveled California and the Nevada Desert in a motorhome. These are his first color abstract works.
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2022
Olya I
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper, portrait | 2022
Olya I is part the Living in a box series, exploring the complex relationship between humans and architecture in densely populated cities like Zurich. The portrait reflects feelings of confinement and limited space caused by urban density. Printed on high-quality cotton paper, the work combines digital precision with a minimalist style, focusing on the expressive gaze and posture of the subject to create an intense, intimate atmosphere.
Deepdive
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2022
At the bottom of the sea, in the endless, open space where freedom seems boundless, an opposing feeling emerges: claustrophobia. The diver – surrounded by vastness, yet dependent on the limited air in their lungs – suddenly feels the walls closing in. Apparent freedom becomes an illusion, and silence turns to pressure. Each breath is a reminder of life’s fragility – down where there is nothing but water, darkness, and time.
Ata self-portrait
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper, portrait | 2022
In his book “Fifteen seconds of fame” various friends are portrayed. For the portraits, the artist uses frontal photos as a template. With circles and straight lines he divides the face into segments. These segments are colored in until the image is complete. The interesting discovery is that practically everything organic has a similar construction plan that can be summarized in circles. These circles are connected to each other at the smallest point of contact.
2021
Darkslide
Hurricane
70 x 100 cm
Acrylic on paper,
Monotype | 2021
A monotype is a work that is printed manually and therefore each one is unique. The black paper is printed with highly pigmented silver. Silver reflects and black absorbs the light, so the contrast is particularly strong. This color combination is often used in “street bombing”.
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911 Matrix
Monotype Making of
70 x 100 cm
Monotype, ink on paper | 2021
The series “Unexpected interruption” are the first abstract works that the artist makes available to his audience. These works combine many aspects of his creation. The focus is on the fragility of large systems. 911 was a key moment that left its mark on his work. Nothing is “too big to fail”, says the artist.
Serie 1 13
30 x 40 cm
Ink on paper, Monotype | 2021
Serie 1 23
30 x 40 cm
Ink on paper, Monotype | 2021
No letters at all
Animation | 202
“Spoken words are fleeting. Some meaningful, many not. Words disintegrate into letters and letters disintegrate into nothing. An experiment,” says the artist.
2020
Installation view,
4478 m ü. m., Zürich | 2020
The Matterhorn is the most famous mountain in Switzerland. Here it is represented in a geometrical language. This work was created with a groundbreaking laser technology that vaporizes the material instead of cutting it — a world first. The MDF panels were lasered in their raw state or with a white or gray coating. The differences in height give the work a three-dimensional appearance. The movement of the viewer brings the work to life.
4478 M brown
100 x 70 cm
Laser sublimation on wood | 2020
4478 M grey
100 x 70 cm
Laser sublimation on wood | 2020
Forest
6.6 × 1.98 m
Laser sublimation on wood panel
Apartment House Eisvogel, Andermatt | 2020
This laser-sublimated landscape consists exclusively of lines at two angles. The different depths of the sublimation give the forest its dimension. This geometric reduced work looks incredibly alive and organic from a distance.
Waste bag
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2020
Waste Bag belongs to the series of works “Living in a box”. The contents of a waste bag give more information about oneself than one would like.
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Hase
ink on paper | 2020
2019
Falkert
200 x 100 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2019
The Falkert is probably one of the most popular ski resorts of the Austrians. It seems that this mountain was accidentally hurt by God's little finger. This work was a gift from the artist to his loyal Austrian collectors.
Herz orange
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2019
This heart was created in collaboration with the company Studer in Thun. The heart should reflect the passion and craftsmanship of the company. The constructed heart which consists of circles and lines takes a direct reference to the products produced by the company Studer for medicine and technology.
Heringe blau
Heringe rot
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2019
“Living in a box” is a theme that has accompanied the artist since 2013. Living together in the smallest space and the activities that have become routine are depicted by means of daily objects.
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Egli
ink on paper | 2017
Startschuss
70 x 100 cm
Acyrlic on paper, stencil | 2019
Springer
70 x 100 cm
Acyrlic on paper, stencil | 2019
Haubentaucher trifft Rotfeder
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2019
Flügeli
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2019
2018
Immersion
12 x 3.8 m
Mixed media on wood panel, graffiti
Berufsbildungszentrum IDM, Thun | 2018
“A person is also just a swimmer.” This statement is fitting for the digital development of our society. This artwork thematizes the immersion in a matter or in the digital world.
Der Kuss einer Forelle
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2018
Ass bomb
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2018
Refugees at Limmat
240 x 100 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2018
This dark chapter in the history of refugees happens right under the artist's nose in Zurich. Several refugees drown while trying to escape from the police.
Dufourspitze
190 x 140 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2018
2017
Alicia
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper, portrait | 2017
This is a work from the Heiniger family portrait series. Alicia is the daughter of the entrepreneur Stefan Heiniger.
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Alexandra
140 x 100 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper, portrait | 2017
Alexandra is a French model who lives in Zurich. She posed for the series “Living in a box”. The work is privately owned by the Gubelmann family.
Astronaut
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2017
The work “Astronaut” raises questions. Many questions that the artist wants to leave open.
Skull cream
70 x 100 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2017
Skeleton sixpack white
70 x 100 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2017
Skeleton sixpack black
70 x 100 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2017
2016
Online
23 x 6 m
Mixed media on mural, Jardin Orange, Shenzhen | 2016
The “Online baby” was created during the development of the artist residency Jardin Orange in 2016. Six years earlier, the artist traveled with his longtime friend Fouad (Ceet) Ben Allal to various cities in China to exhibit. Ceet stayed and organized different events including this residency and exhibition in Shenzhen. Various international artists were invited to transform the newly emerging settlement into an open air gallery. This colorful work is the main work of the series “Living in a box”.
Perfect baby
Family
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2016
Who doesn't hope that their offspring will enter the world healthy and strong? No one wants to raise a disabled child. Medicine offers us more and more possibilities to give birth in a controlled way. Is the pursuit of a perfect baby legitimate or immoral? And where does this thought drive us? The artist asked himself these and similar questions after the miscarriage of his son (Marley Bozaci R.I.P.).
view in shop
2015
Installation view, Fifteen seconds of fame
Galerie Soon, Bern
Trace Gallery Zürich | 2015
With an air of cultivated nonchalance, today’s hipster snaps a selfie with his smartphone, posts it on Facebook instantly and awaits the virtual thumbs-up from his friends across the globe. Exhibtionism to this degree was inconceivable before the birth and subsequent popularity of social media. When Andy Warhol exclaimed in 1968 that everyone would get their “fifteen seconds of fame” in the future, he could not have imagined today’s fast-paced world of micro-moments. Our attention span has shrunk so dramatically since Warhol’s time that his fifteen minutes have been shortened to fifteen seconds of fame.
His portraits emphasize an iconic aspect of social media culture, the portrait photographs serving as user profile pictures on social media sites. Using full-frontal portrait shots to focus on his subjects’ facial features, the artist has successfully assembled a gallery of faces, or quite literally, a “face book”.
Bee eats the flower
50 x 70 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2015
Rooster easts the bee
60 x 80 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2015
2014
Amanda
6 x 16 m
Mixed media on mural, graffiti
Stamp Festival, Hamburg | 2014
2013
Brot (Er hat ka Brot)
ink on paper | 2013
Prahlhans
30 x 40 cm
Goliath gewinnt
13 x 18 cm
Ink on paper | 2013