Muhamed Kafedžić – Muha
ムハメッド カフェジッチ 無派

7 August 2016
Mount Fuji from Lake Kawaguchi

Muhamed Kafedžić is born in 1977 in Zenica, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Holds BA in Art Education and Magister Degree in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo. In 2024. has been awarded by the Ministry of Culture and Sports of Canton Sarajevo with status of distinguished independent artist of Canton Sarajevo. In March 2024 he is joining, as volunteer coordinator and program/project developer, Arka – Art & Eductaion Center as active member of the Association for the Promotion of Culture and Art – Arka. As of September 2024 he is part of the team of the startup company IsaacCode in Sarajevo. In 2025. became a part of Peace Education Curriculum Project: Promoting A Culture Of Peace Through Formal Education, by Peace Education Hub (University Of Sarajevo- Faculty Of Philosophy) in collaboration with UNESCO BiH as media developer and communications coordinator.

Lives and works in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Uses 4 distinctive signatures.

muha – from 2009 – 2013

Based on Japanese characters 蝿 (hae) meaning „single fly“, but also “unimportant man”

muha – from 2013 – now

Based on Japanese characters 無派 with meaning “to not belong to any party or school of thought”, as his arts have many roots and therefore it cannot belong to only one tradition.

Utamaro Lichtenstein – 2014 – now

Fusion of Kitagawa Utamaro´s and Roy Lichtenstein´s signature.

Unlike three previous personas, for new series of paintings This is A®merica he has developed the shadow

Minotaur Rex – 2024 – now

Research essay Ukiyo-e between Pop Art and (Trans)cultural Appropriation: On the Art of Muhamed Kafedžić – Muha by Srđan Tunić, Transcultural Studies Nr. 1 (2017), Heidelberg University Publishing.

Review Pop Art and pop art by Amalija Stojsavljević, art historian.