2024
Hype Balloon, Virgin
Installation view, Jetzt Kunst
Marzili, Bern | 2024
Hype Balloon, Virgin
FS Tailslide | FS Lipslide | BS Lipslide, 70 x 100 cm each
Darkslide | BS Crooked | FS Crooked, 70 x 100 cm each
Installation view, Grinding on concrete
Bärengasse 16, Zürich | 2024
As the title “grinding on concrete” already announces, the artworks refer to skateboarding and its soundscape. You can hear a skateboarder from very far away when the hard wheels hit the asphalt. How you push, how fast you go, how securely you stand on the board... All this is revealed by the various sounds that emanate from a skateboard. These sounds have been with Ata Bozaci for over 35 years. So it’s time to turn them into art.
Thalia
140 x 100 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2024
2023
Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2023
Every child knows the donkey, dog, cat and rooster from the famous fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. It tells the story of four aging domestic animals, who after a lifetime of hard work are neglected and mistreated by their former masters. Eventually, they decide to run away and become town musicians in the city of Bremen. Contrary to the story's title the characters never arrive in Bremen, as they succeed in tricking and scaring off a band of robbers, capturing their spoils, and moving into their house.
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Die drei Muskeltiere
70 x 100 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2023
Who doesn't know the loyalty of the musketeers? “One for all, all for one”. And who doesn't know the muscleman Arnold Schwarzenegger? Combining the two results in the pun: “The three muscleteers - Die drei Muskeltiere”. The three muscle packs standing side by side are the same person. Through the repetition the force is multiplied. Even bigger, even stronger he should appear. This package of muscles pays with the immobility in which he is trapped.
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What’s left
8 x 3 m
Mixed media on mural
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
Kunstby Festival, Næstved | 2023
2022
USA Rhythm of the desert 01
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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USA Rhythm of the desert 05
100 x 100 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2022
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Olya I
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2022
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Olya II
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2022
Cloudy day orange
140 x 100 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2022
Cloudy day blue
140 x 100 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2022
“I envy the cloud floating lightly in front of itself, almost unreal,” says Ata Bozaci about this work.
Christ Air
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2022
Ata self-portrait
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 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
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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Hurricane
70 x 100 cm
Acrylic on paper, Monotype | 2021
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911 Matrix
70 x 100 cm
Lasersublimation on wood | 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.
Monotype Making of
70 x 100 cm
Monotype, ink on paper | 2021
Serie 1 13
30 x 40 cm
Ink on paper, Monotype | 2021
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Serie 1 23
30 x 40 cm
Ink on paper, Monotype | 2021
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No letters at all
Animation | 2021
“Fleeting are the words spoken, some of meaning, many not. Words disintegrate into letters and letters disintegrate into nothing. An experiment,” says the artist.
2020
4478 MP, 140 x 200 cm
4478 S, 50 x 50 cm
4478 S 3, 50 x 50 cm
4478 M white, 100 x 70 cm
Laser sublimation on wood
Installation view, 4478 m ü. m., Zürich | 2020
Exhibition catalog
The Matterhorn is the most famous mountain in Switzerland. Here it is represented in a geometrical language. This work was made with the latest laser technology. 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
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Forest
6.6 x 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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Covidski
70 x 90 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2020
“Covdiski” consisting of the two terms covid and ski originated during he pandemic. The standstill is represented by the waiting skis.
Pass Runner
70 x 100 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2020
The Pass Runner, Oliver Zimmerli, shows the final spurt of his competitive mission as a professional cyclist. Followed by his rival, who realizes the obvious failure of his bet. It was about a crate of beer.
Hase
ink on paper | 2020
Afghan Windhund
ink on paper | 2020
Blumenfeld
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.
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Heringe blau
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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Heringe rot
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2019
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Schwamm Harmonie
60 x 80 cm
Ink on glas | 2019
Schwamm 1
40 x 40 cm
Ink on glas and paper | 2019
Schwamm 2
40 x 40 cm
Ink on glas and paper | 2019
Nap
140 x 100 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2019
Startschuss
70 x 100 cm
Acyrlic on paper | 2019
Immersion
70 x 100 cm
Acyrlic on paper | 2019
Haubentaucher trifft Rotfeder
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2019
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Flügeli
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2019
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2018
Immersion
12 x 3.8 m
Mixed media on wood panel
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.
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.
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Dufourspitze
190 x 140 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2018
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Die Badende
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2018
Die Küchenschabe
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2018
Muni
140 x 100 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2018
Alicia
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2018
This is a work from the Heiniger family portrait series. Alicia is the daughter of the entrepreneur Stefan Heiniger.
Aya
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2018
2017
Alina
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2017
The artist's niece “Alina” plays her first concert piece in Thun. A small memento for her great achievement. The work is privately owned by the Bozaci family.
Julia
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2017
Alexandra
140 x 100 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 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.
Blind Jockey
140 x 100 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2017
For centuries, thousands and thousands of people have watched galloping horses. And yet, apparently, not one of them has noticed what it “really” looks like when a horse gallops. Great and small masters liked to make the fiery animals float in the air with their legs stretched ou. It was only about a hundred and fifty years ago, when the photographic camera had been sufficiently perfected, that these photographs showed that both painter and audience had been subject to deception all along.
source: The Story of Art, Ernst H. Gombrich
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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.
Rettungsschwimmer
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2017
Nachtschwimmen
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2017
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Digidog alias Stormtrooper
127 cm height
Mixed media on polyester
Installation view, BerARTiner
in front of the Bundeshaus, Bern | 2017
Chicki
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
Schabelle
100 x 70 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2017
The cockroach dresses in black and causes disgust in many people. The dragonfly, on the other hand, glitters beautifully in all the colors of the rainbow and thus captivates us. Both are insects. One is attractive and the other repulsive. Opposites attract and a “roachfly - Schabelle” is created.
Dählhölzli Bern
ink on paper | 2017
Brot
ink on paper | 2017
Egli
ink on paper | 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
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.).
Familie
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2016
2015
Fifteen seconds of fame
Installation view, Fifteen seconds of fame
The Trace Gallery, Zürich | 2015
Exhibition catalog
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Bee
50 x 70 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2015
Rooster
60 x 80 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 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”.
Fifteen seconds of fame
Installation view, Fifteen seconds of fame
Galerie Soon, Bern | 2015
Digitale Begegnung
70 x 100 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2015
Schlachthof
140 x 100 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2015
Mallorca 04
ink on paper | 2015
Mallorca 03
ink on paper | 2015
Mallorca 05
ink on paper | 2015
Mallorca 01
ink on paper | 2015
Mallorca 02
ink on paper | 2015
Mallorca 08
ink on paper | 2015
Mallorca 09
ink on paper | 2015
Mallorca 06
ink on paper | 2015
Mallorca 10
ink on paper | 2016
Mallorca 13
ink on paper | 2016
2014
Amanda
6 x 16 m
Mixed media on mural
Stamp Festival, Hamburg | 2014
David vs Goliath
Mixed media on mural
Kunstby Festival, Næstved | 2014
Enis Batur
Mixed media on mural
Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul | 2014
2013
Der Boxer
100 x 160 cm
Mixedmedia on wood
The Trace Gallery, Zürich | 2013
“There are different types of boxers. Two of them are the loudmouths and the quiet aggressive. The odds are in favor of the quiet one. The quiet one wins,” says Ata Bozaci. This two-part work was made for the exhibition “Linear Boxing”. The painting is owned by the Ogris family.
In der blauen Ecke
80 x 100 cm
Mixedmedia on wood
The Trace Gallery, Zürich | 2013
Goliath gewinnt
13 x 18 cm
Ink on paper
The Trace Gallery, Zürich | 2013
Boxing is intuitive and direct. So also this drawing for the series “Linear Boxing - Lineares Boxen” was created.
Toast
Mixed media on mural
Rubigen | 2013
Prahlhans
30 x 40 cm
Ink on paper
The Trace Gallery, Zürich | 2013
Nackter Boxer
Ink on paper
The Trace Gallery, Zürich | 2013
What does a boxer say to his opponent in the shower after a fight? The drawing asks this question.
Nightmare
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.
My adidas
140 x 100 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2013
Henrik
70 x 100 cm
Fine art print on cotton paper
Letter architecture | 2013
E-Street
70 x 100 cm
Fine art print on cotton paper
Letter architecture | 2013
4villa
100 x 70 cm
Fine art print on cotton paper
Letter architecture | 2013
Block floor
100 x 70 cm
Fine art print on cotton paper
Letter architecture | 2013
2012
Black devil
70 x 100 cm
Fine art print on cotton paper
Letter architecture | 2012
Black devil sketch
pencil on paper
Letter architecture | 1998
2011
Poppy
Mixed media on mural
Adelaide | 2011
Hype Balloon
6.5 x 1.6 x 1.6 m
Inflatable sculpture, PVC white
Installation view, Urban Art EFX
CBK, Amsterdam | 2011
The O
stick together sculpture perspex
Installation view, Unexpected Playground
Retrospektive, TheEssentialCollection, Zürich | 2011
Z POV
sculpture wood | 2011
Toast Swiss
stick together sculpture wood
installation view, Hardaupark, Zürich | 2011
POV collage Piano
sculpture wood | 2011
Toast 3leg
sculpture wood
Installation view, The aerosol experience
Galerie zieglerzwei, Zürichh | 2011
POV City
400 x 230 cm
collage acrylic on wood | 2011
2010
Eighty eight
stick together sculpture wood black
Installation view, Unexpected Playground
Retrospektive, TheEssentialCollection, Zürich | 2010
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.
Fourpack
mixed media on woodboard
Installation view, Public provocations II
Colab Gallery, Weil am Rhein | 2010
Flying hearts
Mixed media on mural
The Dafen International Mural Invitational Exhibition
Dafen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China | 2010
2009
POV S-House
collage wood | 2009
Metalboards
Glass-blasted metalboard
Installation view
DARE, TOAST, STRUMBEL, BLEK LE RAT
Galerie Mang, Lindau | 2009
The artist and the metalboards. In the background we can see an “EGO” work by Dare Sigi von Koeding.
2008
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.
Block Tower
100 x 140 cm
Print on cottonpaper | 2008
The name Toast is hidden in this work. With the self-designed font, the artist writes the name over and over again. Sometimes white sometimes black. This painting over each other (going over) is a typical behavior in the graffiti scene.
Blackpages
138 x 138 x 6 cm
Glass-blasted metalboard | 2008
Made of steel, the board shows the lettering “BLACK PAGES”. The white surfaces are matte and the highly polished plate 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.
Toast Black
138 x 138 x 6 cm
Glass-blasted metalboard | 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.
Metalboards
Glass-blasted metalboard
Installation view, Urban Art
Galerie Springmann, München | 2008
Toast Steel
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.
Toast Block 1
200 x 200 cm
acrylic on canvas | 2008
Toast Block 2
200 x 200 cm
acrylic on canvas | 2008
2007
Point of view
Mixed media on wood panel
Collaboration with Dare Sigi von Koeding
Privat apartment Gunter Sachs
Schlosshotel am Wörthersee, Velden | 2007
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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.
Style Block 03
70 x 100 cm
Print on cottonpaper | 2007
In this work, the already simplified letters T-O-A-S-T are moved and placed on three semi-transparent layers.
Toast Balance
52 x 27 cm
pencil on paper | 2007
Die Treppe
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.
2001
Buchstabenarchitektur & Der Kubus
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 (50 x 50 x 50 cm) is one letter placed, so that the letters interlock.
1999
Devil
sculpture ceramic | 1999
Wespa
acrylic on canvas | 1999
Raumsprung
mixed media on canvas | 1999
Ozean
mixed media on canvas | 1999
Tapete
mixed media on canvas | 1999