Ata Bozaci (also known as Toast) operates at the intersection of urban art, figurative expression, typography, and space. His visual language is reduced and deliberate – deeply rooted in the urban environment, inspired by the raw honesty of graffiti, the precision of typography, and the rhythm of architecture.

His 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.

At the core of his work is the human figure – as form, as presence in public space, and as a carrier of identity. This focus leads to conceptual series such as Graffitecture, where graffiti meets architecture, and Typokinetics, where movement and typography merge in a kinetic dialogue. With the series Monotype, Bozaci explores the traditional printmaking technique of monotype printing – a process that produces unique, one-of-a-kind prints. The resulting works combine gestural immediacy with typographic clarity.

Bozaci bridges digital and analog methods to create a contemporary, interdisciplinary visual language – between art, design, and urban culture.

Typokinetics

This sculpture transforms graffiti into motion. Built from geometric letterforms – some readable, others abstract – the elements tilt, rotate, and touch, triggering a chain of movement. Like a silent dance, each form reacts to the next, as if set in motion by wind or water.

Typography becomes alive. What once lived on walls now enters space and begins to dance. Not as written text, but as rhythmic, physical presence. Graffiti is no longer painted, but experienced: flowing, spatial, kinetic.

Toast
Graffitecture 2025

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.

UNEXPECTED INTERRUPTION, selected work 2005 to 2021
24 x 28 cm, 2021
Softcover flap, 96 pages, english and german
(limited edition)

This book revisits moments in the development of the graphic designer, artist and graffiti writer Ata Bozaci (born 1974), compiled over three decades in the form of a visual diary. The title, unexpected interruption, is from the artist’s most recent series of works which feature complex structures broken up by small interruptions to create something new.
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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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Video installation,
Unexpected Interruption, Die Diele, Zürich | 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.

Installation view,
4478 m ü. m., punkt 58, 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.

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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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.

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

FIFTEEN SECONDS OF FAME –
A gallery of digital portraits, Ata Bozaci
24 x 28 cm, 2015
Hardcover, 150 pages, english,
limited edition

In the 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.
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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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Skull cream
70 x 100 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper | 2017

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.).
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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”.