Islam-Kant Bashirov

Islam-Kant (the word ‘kant’ in Chechen means son/boy) is a Chechnya-born Dutch artist. He was born in Grozny, the capital of the Chechen-Ingush Republic, USSR, in 1967. In 1994, he graduated from the Medical Academy in Dagestan, Russia. A couple of months later, the Chechen war broke out, and he worked as a doctor in a field hospital, treating wounded soldiers and civilians.

In 2000, Islam-Kant was granted political asylum in the Netherlands after he had been arrested in Moscow on false charges. (Amnesty International 1999; ‘The case of Islam Bashirov, page 56) ;

In 2010 - he graduated from Leiden University, where he completed his medical studies.
In 2017, he specialized in anesthesiology and pain medicine at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam.
At the same year Islam-Kant created his first series of artwork called "Emotions," in which he explored human emotions through animal archetypes.


The next serie he produced called "Remastering. Visualization. Ulysses.". The series was inspired by James Joyce's book "Ulysses," and in it, Islam-Kant researched the novel's text and associated colors.

During his time at university, he completed an internship at a psychiatric hospital Parnassia in Den Hage , where he gained valua...

DGMI, Dagestan, Russia
Erasmusm MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
LUMC, Leiden, the Netherlands

Solo Exhibitions:

2024 'The Veils' Vrijpaleis Amstedam

2023 ‘Text Book PsychiArtY’/gallery ‘Thuillier’ Paris, France

2022 ‘Text Book PsychiArtY’/gallery ‘Tante Nino’ Rotterdam, Netherlands

2020 ‘the art must go on’/gallery 'Art of Stream' Rotterdam, Netherlands

2019 Remastering. ‘Visualisation. Ulysses.’/gallery 'Art of Stream ' - Rotterdam, Netherlands

Group Exhibitions:

2023 ‘Text Book PsychiArtY’/gallery Thuillier – Paris, France

2019 ARTSTREAM 00I: Islam-kant & Lookman & Magomed. ‘Art of stream’ - Rotterdam, Netherlands

2017 Regio Art Rijmond; Spijkenisse - Spijkenisse, Netherlands