explore the artworks of ata bozaci 2025-2014
2025
Toast Superbold
Graffitecture
82 x 56 cm
Fine art print | 2025
Toast “Go around”
Graffitecture
82 x 56 cm
Fine art print | 2025
2024
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.
The Fly
Living in a box
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print | 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.
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2023
The three muscle animals
Living in a box
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print | 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
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.
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Video installation,
Unexpected Interruption, Zürich | 2023
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.
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2022
Olya
Living in a box
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print | 2022
Olya 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.
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Deepdive
Living in a box
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print | 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.
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2021
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
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”.
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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.
Serie 1 13
Monotype
30 x 40 cm
Ink on paper | 2021
Serie 1 23
Monotype
30 x 40 cm
Ink on paper | 2021
No letters at all
Typokinetics
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., 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.
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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 | 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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2019
SPONGE series
70 x 100 cm
Black ink on paper | 2019
Heart orange
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print | 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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Herrings blue
Herrings red
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print | 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
Start
70 x 100 cm
Acrylic on paper, stencil | 2019
Springer, black
70 x 100 cm
Acrylic on paper, stencil | 2019
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Great crested grebe meets rudd
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print | 2019
Water wings
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print | 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.
Refugees at Limmat
240 x 100 cm
Fine art print | 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 | 2018
Eiger Mönch Jungfrau
100 x 70 cm
Fine art print | 2018
Niesen
140 x 100 cm
Fine art print | 2018
2017
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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more about the portraits
Alicia
Fifteen seconds of fame
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print | 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
Living in a box
140 x 100 cm
Fine art print | 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.
Skull cream
Living in a box
70 x 100 cm
Fine art print | 2017
Skeleton sixpack white
Living in a box
70 x 100 cm
Fine art print | 2017
Skeleton sixpack black
Living in a box
70 x 100 cm
Fine art print | 2017
2016
Online baby
Living in a box
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
Living in a box
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print | 2016
Who doesn't hope that their offspring will enter the world healthy and strong? No one chooses 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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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
Living in a box
50 x 70 cm
Fine art print | 2015
Rooster easts the bee
Living in a box
60 x 80 cm
Fine art print | 2015
2014
Amanda
6 x 16 m
Living in a box
Mixed media on mural, graffiti
Stamp Festival, Hamburg | 2014