graffitecture is a new artistic approach that merges graffiti and architecture.

Instead of remaining on walls, graffiti letters expand into space and become architectural forms. The vision is clear: people walk through words, stand inside letters, and experience architecture as language.

Hype Balloon, Virgin
Typokinetics
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.

FS Boardslide
FS Bluntslide
Graffitecture
100 x 100 cm
Laser sublimation on wood | 2023

Highly complex structures can sometimes be disrupted by seemingly minor elements, giving rise to something unexpected and new. In this work, the artist employs the technique of laser sublimation – an unusual process in which the material transitions directly from a solid to a gaseous state. Through this transformation, the wood is converted into energy, raising questions about force, change, and the duality between man and nature.

What’s left
Graffitecture
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 Even Mary
Graffitecture
12 x 4 m
Mixed media on mural
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
Graffitecture
100 x 100 cm
Fine art print | 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.

Monotype
70 x 100 cm
Acrylic on paper | 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”.

Video installation,
Unexpected Interruption, Die Diele Zürich | 2021

Installation view
Unexpected Interruption
Die Diele, Zürich | 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.

No letters at all
Typokinetics
Animation | 2021

“Spoken words are fleeting. Some meaningful, many not. Words disintegrate into letters and letters disintegrate into nothing. An experiment,” says the artist.

Nightmare
Graffitecture
8m x 6m | Mixed media on wall
Privat apartment, Spittal an der Drau | 2013

A young, very wealthy couple had this villa built in Austria shortly after their marriage. The large, monochrome work had no name for a long time. Years later, the artist learns that the couple lost their entire fortune and the house to an impostor from Russia. Since then, the painting is called “Nightmare”. Now a sheik from Dubai is said to own the property.

Henrik
Graffitecture
70 x 100 cm
Fine art print | 2012

E-Street
Graffitecture
70 x 100 cm
Fine art print | 2012

Black devil
Graffitecture
70 x 100 cm
Fine art print | 2012

Black devil sketch
Graffitecture
100 x 140cm
pencil on paper | 1998

Eighty eight
Graffitecture
stick together sculpture wood black
Installation view, Unexpected Playground
Retrospektive, The Essential Collection, Zürich | 2010

Installation view, 1st Beijing International Design Triennial, Beijing | 2011

The stick together sculpture consists of eighty parts and shows a digital 8. The black elements are cut so that they wedge each other. The sides are covered with luminous tape. The 8 is readable from each side.

Toast Black
Graffitecture
138 x 138 x 6 cm
Glass-blasted metalboard
| 2008

Installation view
DARE, TOAST, STRUMBEL, BLEK LE RAT
Galerie Mang, Lindau | 2009 Urban Art
Galerie Springmann, München | 2008

Made of steel, the board shows the lettering “Toast”. The glass-blasted surfaces are matte and the highly polished steel reflects the light of the environment. Thus, depending on the incidence of light, the name appears sometimes more and sometimes less. It is a search and hide. This situation reflects the activity of spraying a New York steel train.

Unexpected Interruption
600 x 400 cm
Acrylic on steel
Installation view, Die Kunst ist weiblich
Retrospektive Gunter Sachs
Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig | 2008

This is one of the most complex productions in the collaboration with Gunter Sachs. A large team of manual laborers carefully built and assembled the six steel plates. “Sticking on and removing the foil was hell. Luckily I had a great friend by my side who did half of the work,” says Ata Bozaci.

Toast Steel
Graffitecture
stick together sculpture steel
Installation view, Point of View, Galerie Springmann, Freiburg | 2008

This incredibly light appearing sculpture weighs about 60 kg per letter. The sculpture consists of 10 steel plates that can be inserted into each other. With these letters you can write in space. This is what the artist calls revolutionary in the history of graffiti writing. The difficulty was to make the letters legible from all sides. In the background we can see “EGO” works by Dare Sigi von Koeding.

BLACK INK
ILLUSTRATIONS BY ATA “TOAST” BOZACI
24 x 28 cm, 2007
Hardcover, 240 pages, english and german
Published by Publikat

For graffiti artist and illustrator Ata TOAST Bozaci (1974) black ink is far more than just colour: It is the elixir which brings life into his countless ideas on paper. That is why the Swiss now turns to the origins and presents a collection of selected sketches from the last two decades in his book BLACK INK.

In graffiti scene he is simply called TOAST, others know him by the name of Ata Bozaci, or as the founder and co-owner of the firm ATALIER in Bern, Switzerland. As versatile as the person is the work of the internationally renowned multi-talent, who lately designed the private apartment of Gunter Sachs in the legendary castle at Lake Wörth, Austria. Although his murals, illustrations, and advertisements are quite different, they all share the same origin: a sketch made with black ink on a simple sheet of paper. With his book BLACK INK Ata Bozaci allows for the very first time an insight into the creative developing process of his works.

Already the first pages clearly show that TOAST learned his handcraft to a large extent without a computer – contrary to most other young artists. Lines and areas join each other organically and the viewer will recognise with surprise that the black ink on white paper seems to have some kind of life of its own. TOAST’s characteristic reduction to the essential is emphasised by the renunciation of colour and lets the originally coloured works almost appear unknown. Ata Bozaci wants to break the usual habits and invites the reader to take another look at putative known works to discover the goodness of simplicity.

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Point of view
Graffitecture
Mixed media on wood panel
Collaboration with Dare Sigi von Koeding
Privat apartment Gunter Sachs
Schlosshotel am Wörthersee, Velden | 2007

This is probably the most important work of Ata Bozaci. It was created in collaboration with Dare Sigi von Koeding and the art collector Gunter Sachs. The artist says with a laugh: “That was a hell of a ride”. This elaborate project consumed three months.
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Die Treppe
Graffitecture
30 x 30 x 30 cm each piece
sculpture wood | 2007

This early work “Die Treppe” is the first modular letter system the artist built in his studio in Bern.

Toast cube
Graffitecture
Installation view,
Aspects of Graffiti
Shedhalle, Rote Fabrik, Zürich | 2001

The name “Toast” can be seen on the cube. On each side of the object is one letter placed, so that the letters interlock.

Wespa
Graffitecture
sculpture ceramic | 1999

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