3D Madness By Shozy! (28 Photos)

These buildings are not bending, melting, or opening up—Shozy just makes them look that way.

Born in Moscow in 1989, Danila Shmelev—better known as Shozy—began painting graffiti in the early 2000s. He studied graphic design at the Moscow Art and Industrial Institute and trained in classical drawing and painting before moving from three-dimensional letterforms to large-scale anamorphic murals.

This expanded collection brings together 28 works created between 2016 and July 2026. Using perspective, shadow, and existing architectural details, Shozy makes apartment blocks, hotels, courtyards, and industrial buildings appear soft, hollow, folded, or torn open.

Follow Shozy on Instagram, explore his artist portfolio, and read the 2026 Rebobinart interview.

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🧩 Untitled — Shozy in Calais, France 🇫🇷

Painted for the Calais Street Art Festival in July 2026, this work turns a flat gray wall into a stack of swollen, salmon-pink folds. The official program scheduled Shozy to work on Boulevard du 8 Mai from July 17 to 24 and does not list a formal title, so the work is presented here as untitled. See Shozy’s post.

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🌊 The Wave Is Coming — Shozy in Balashikha, Russia 🇷🇺

Created in 2022 for the Cultural Code festival with assistant Alexey Tarakin, The Wave Is Coming transforms a 14-storey panel block into a rolling architectural swell. The work is at 7 Novaya Street in Zheleznodorozhny, Balashikha. Local coverage records the title, festival, and address. See more photos on Street Art Utopia.

💡 Literary Fact: The settlement now known as Zheleznodorozhny was called Obiralovka when Leo Tolstoy used its railway station as the setting for Anna Karenina’s death. The Moscow Region’s official tourism portal records that the settlement was renamed Zheleznodorozhny in 1939.

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🧥 Untitled “Inside-Out Fur Coat” — Shozy in Satka, Russia 🇷🇺

For this 2026 transformation at No. 3 on 40 Let Pobedy Street, the facade seems to buckle while windows slip in and out of alignment. Shozy compared the idea to turning a house’s fur coat inside out; that phrase is his caption rather than a formal title. Created for the Sobranie Fund with Alexey Aste. See Shozy’s post. Photo: @fotoshakirov.

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🪞 Anamorphose — Shozy in Paris, France 🇫🇷

Painted in 2023 for Boulevard Paris 13 at 202 Rue du Château des Rentiers, this red-framed illusion compresses the middle of the tower into a rippling reflection. The project’s official page identifies the work as Anamorphose. See more photos on Street Art Utopia. Photo: Vincent Mercier.

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🟢 Untitled — Shozy in Reims, France 🇫🇷

Created for the final phase of the Odyssée project in the Châtillons district in 2025, this emerald-and-black composition turns the gable at 2 Avenue Christophe Colomb into what the project describes as a portal to another dimension. The linked project pages do not list a formal title. View the artist-added location record.

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🕰️ La Torre del Rellotge — Shozy in Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸

Completed in Trinitat Nova, Nou Barris, in December 2025, La Torre del Rellotge—The Clock Tower—reimagines the building at 19 Carrer Platja d’Aro. The Rebobinart project page explains that the mural recalls a neighborhood clock tower built in 1953 and demolished in 2013; it was produced for NOU Sentit Urbà.

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🏢 Untitled — Shozy in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia 🇷🇺

Created for the 2025 season of the Vzglyady public-art program, this monochrome intervention makes balconies bulge, sink, and pass through the surface of a low residential building. No formal title has been confirmed. Contemporary coverage notes that Shozy created another geometry-breaking mural during the season, separate from Garden of Invisible Reeds. The restrained gray palette lets the painted distortions merge almost seamlessly with the real architecture.

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🧬 Technè et Gaïa — Shozy in Montereau-Fault-Yonne, France 🇫🇷

Created for the third edition of Montereau’s L’art dans la ville initiative, Technè et Gaïa combines Gothic arches, white hydrangeas, molecular forms, and a deep blue inspired by Montereau’s historic faïence. Its title joins the ancient Greek idea of technè—art, skill, and craft—with Gaïa, the Earth. The artist-added record dates the mural to June 6, 2025, at 4 Rue des Récollets. Photo: Shozy.

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📐 Panel House — Shozy in Solnechnodolsk, Russia 🇷🇺

Painted for the Cultural Code festival in 2021, the work is identified as Panel House (Панельный дом) in the regional mural catalogue. It extends the familiar architecture of a five-storey apartment block with impossible rooms and projecting balconies. The project record identifies Shozy and assistant Alexey Tarakin and places the 320-square-metre work at 10 Solnechny Boulevard. The correct town is Solnechnodolsk, Stavropol Krai—not Solnechnogorsk, as the old image filename and earlier captions stated. See more photos on Street Art Utopia.

💡 Nerd Fact: Soviet prefabrication extended beyond wall panels. A 1971 National Bureau of Standards report documented concrete bathroom pods leaving factories with toilets, washbasins, and baths already partly installed; one Leningrad panel line finished a panel every 22 minutes.

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🍇 Vigne en Ville — Shozy in Reims, France 🇫🇷

Created at 36 Avenue Georges Hodin for the Odyssée Châtillons project in 2024, Vigne en Ville opens a concrete facade onto curling leaves and grapevines. The Quai 36 project page says the work symbolizes the region’s wine-growing heritage.

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🏨 Untitled — Shozy at the Ibis in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France 🇫🇷

At 2 bis Boulevard Daunou, Shozy uses the peaked roof and central windows of an Ibis hotel to create a cutaway building within the building. Painted in 2024 with assistant Alex, the grayscale openings suggest imaginary rooms inside the hotel. The city page does not list a formal title, so it is presented here as untitled. Official city project page.

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🪟 Sans titre — Shozy in Le Pont-de-Claix, France 🇫🇷

For Street Art Fest Grenoble-Alpes in 2024, Shozy bent the windows and trim of a modest building at 1 Place du 8 Mai 1945 into an elastic-looking facade. The festival lists the work simply as Sans titre—Untitled. Official festival page. Photo: Andrea Berlese.

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🌀 Untitled (“Bent House”) — Shozy in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia 🇷🇺

Created for the 2024 Vzglyady public-art program at 233 Komsomolskaya Street, this mural makes the center of the apartment block swell outward while its painted windows follow the curve. Local map listings call it “Bent House,” but no formal title has been confirmed. Artist reel.

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🔺 Untitled — Shozy in Tbilisi, Georgia 🇬🇪

Painted for Tbilisi Mural Fest in 2024, this Varketili facade uses a single red line to sharpen the edge of a deep grayscale recess. The work is in Varketili 3, fourth microdistrict, on Sesilia Takaishvili Street. No formal title is listed, so it is presented here as untitled. View the location record.

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🚪 Portal — Shozy in Krasnokamensk, Russia 🇷🇺

Created in 2024 for Krasnokamensk’s Mestorozhdenie creative program, Portal folds the windows, shadows, and planes of apartment block 401 into an opening that appears to continue beyond the wall. Krasnokamensk’s tourism site identifies the work as Portal and credits it to Danila Shozy. See Shozy’s post.

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🧪 Melting Formula — Shozy in Moscow, Russia 🇷🇺

Created at ARTPLAY in 2023 for the fourth ARTMOSSPHERE Biennale of Street Art, Melting Formula extends the building’s architecture across the wall, with a painted wave making the structure appear soft and displaced. The Open Museum project page gives the Russian title Формула плавления; “Melting Formula” is used here as a natural English rendering. The work is at 10 Nizhnyaya Syromyatnicheskaya Street, building 9.

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❄️ Arctic Circle House — Shozy in Salekhard, Russia 🇷🇺

Painted for the 2022 YAM(ural)AL festival at 8 Gubkina Street, Arctic Circle House removes the apparent center of the facade and suspends rooms inside the painted void. Shozy’s post confirms the title. See more photos on Street Art Utopia.

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🦣 Untitled (“Mammoth Skeleton”) — Shozy in Salekhard, Russia 🇷🇺

Also painted at 8 Gubkina Street for YAM(ural)AL in 2022, this 196-square-metre trompe-l’oeil turns the end wall into a museum-like display containing a mammoth skeleton. The work won the festival’s “Look to the Future” category, according to regional news agency Sever-Press. No formal artwork title has been confirmed, so the heading is descriptive.

💡 Nerd Fact: Lyuba, a permafrost-preserved mammoth calf found on the Yamal Peninsula in 2007, lived roughly 42,000 years ago and was only 30–35 days old when she died. Vivianite in her trachea and bronchi suggests that she suffocated after inhaling mud, according to a 2018 scientific study.

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🧰 Treasure Box — Shozy in Almetyevsk, Russia 🇷🇺

Created with Alexey Aste in summer 2022 for Almetyevsk’s Tales of the Golden Apples public-art program, Treasure Box turns the wall at 189 Lenina Street into a trompe-l’oeil cache of Shozy’s personal keepsakes. The official project page explains that each object carries a memory from his childhood or later life, inviting viewers to reconnect with their own.

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📿 Hidden Beauty — Shozy in Derbent, Russia 🇷🇺

Painted at 3 Lenina Street for Derbent’s third Stena street-art festival in 2021, Hidden Beauty (Скрытая красота) is a geometric abstraction based on patterns from a chibta, a woven mat from the Dagestani village of Urma. In an interview with Eto Kavkaz, Shozy explained that its blurred layers create the effect of an object seen through frosted glass. See it on Street Art Utopia.

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🐝 Collective Mind — Shozy in Neftekamsk, Russia 🇷🇺

Created for Iskra Urban Fest 2020 at 58 Lenina Street, Collective Mind turns the building’s corner into an optical-illusion hive with a monumental bee inside. Festival organizer Supernova Art Embassy describes the bee as both a recognizable image of Bashkir culture and a metaphor for collective effort.

💡 Nerd Fact: Wild-hive beekeeping in present-day Bashkortostan originated about 1,500 years ago. The Bashkir Ural heritage dossier describes colonies housed in specially prepared tree cavities and conservation work protecting the native Burzyan bee.

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🤝 Untitled “Handshake” — Shozy in Chelyabinsk, Russia 🇷🇺

Painted on a 20-storey block at 103 Universitetskaya Naberezhnaya for Urban Morphogenesis 2.0 in 2020, the mural sends two hands through separate openings and across the building’s corner. Shozy described it as a work about love and human relationships: breaking through a metaphorical wall of grievances and illusions to reach understanding. No formal title appears in the artist’s post, so “Handshake” is descriptive. Photo: @shaoshenga.

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🚲 Untitled “Levitating Bicycles” — Shozy in Satka, Russia 🇷🇺

Created for the Satka Street Art Festival in 2020, this anamorphic mural fills the passage between buildings of the local South Ural State University branch at 6A Proletarskaya Street with levitating bicycles. Designed for a particular viewpoint in the courtyard, the painted perspective makes them appear suspended within the structure.

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🟩 Malachite — Shozy in Yekaterinburg, Russia 🇷🇺

Created for STENOGRAFFIA in 2019 at 8V Ulitsa 8 Marta, Malachite wraps the building in an illusion of torn green plastic. The title emerged after the color shifted from Shozy’s planned turquoise toward a shade associated with the Ural stone; he said the ecological reading developed later through viewers’ responses. Project story at Petrograff.

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🔵 Untitled (“Plastic Wrap”) — Shozy in Odintsovo, Russia 🇷🇺

For the first Urban Morphogenesis festival in 2019, Shozy covered a tower in painted blue film that stretches, shines, and tears around the structure. He traced the idea to his canvas series and described the building as something still unsealed—wrapped and not yet fully understood. Artist statement and project photographs. Photo: Heureux.

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🕊️ Freedom — Shozy in Terracina, Italy 🇮🇹

Painted at 3 Via Toscana for Memorie Urbane in 2019, Freedom covers two sides of the building with enormous hands stretching and tearing a transparent film. The festival presents the work as a statement about freedom as both a universal and personal value. Official project page. Photo: Riccardo D’Onofrio.

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☝️ Touch — Shozy in Orenburg, Russia 🇷🇺

Painted in September 2016 for STENOGRAFFIA across 11 and 13 Yunykh Lenintsev Street, Touch—Прикосновение—sends two hands from neighboring walls toward a shared viewing point. Shozy later described it as his first large-scale original facade mural. The mural no longer survives: it was painted over during facade repairs in late 2020.

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🦋 Untitled — Shozy in Dubai, United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪

Created at City Walk for the 2017 Dubai Canvas 3D Art Festival, this untitled anamorphic work fills a painted blue corner with reaching hands and butterflies. The Government of Dubai Media Office records Shmelev’s second-place finish in the 2017 Dubai Canvas 3D Art Award, while the 2017 award results identify Happiness as the competition’s theme. Artist post.

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