27.02.2019 The exhibition «Шежірелі нақыштар» (“Patterns of dynasty”) of the family dynasty of artists Kantarbayevs.

On February 27, 2019, at 15.00, the Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan opens the exhibition «Шежірелі нақыштар» (“Patterns of dynasty”) of the family dynasty of artists Kantarbayevs.

Family is the beginning of all beginnings. Each family has its own traditions, which are passed down from generation to generation. In the Kantarbayevs family, love for creativity was instilled since childhood. “A creative person is brought up by a creative family,” is an expression related to the family dynasty of Kantarbayevs . The ability to see the beauty and subtle artistic taste was inherited by Maksat and Nurdana (sister). Maksat's father – Kantarbayev Kirgizbay Rysovich – a veteran of the Great Patriotic War and labor, graduated from KazPI named. Abay, a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR, was engaged in teaching and manufacturing of applied art products, which are keeping in the State Museum of Art. A. Kasteev, Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Russian Museum of Ethnography (St. Petersburg) and others.

Adamsopiyeva Nurdana also graduated from the graphic arts faculty of the Taraz Pedagogical Institute. She worked as a teacher of fine arts, a designer, was fond of drawing on fabrics - batik (“Kazakh arulari”). And grandson Diaz Maksatuly instilled a love for creativity from early childhood. Received an art education in school. T. Zhurgenov and in Almaty College named after O. Tansykbaev, he manifests himself in painting and drawing.

Kantarbayev Maksat was born and raised in the city of Jambul. In 1988 he graduated from the graphic arts faculty of KazPI named after Abay, and celebrates his 50th birthday this year. He began his career as a teacher of fine arts at the art school of the village of Kogershin, T. Ryskulov district, then worked as a methodologist for fine arts in the Lugovoe district department of public education, opened an art school in the village of Lugovoe, Zhambyl region, and a small enterprise “Oner”.

M. Kantarbayev – artist of landscape genre, paints with watercolors and oil colors, enjoys hot batik, wood carving. Nothing inspires an artist to creativity like wildlife. Therefore, like all painters, Maksat works in the open-airs, using every opportunity to find himself in nature, where he develops his painting skills. The artist is in constant search, does not stop at what has been accomplished – hence the new motives and their embodiment in new creative works. He creates a holistic, organic, multi-colored world that fills with household items, flowers, trees, fruits, always perfect in their forms. When creating his paintings, the author pays great attention to color, which clearly characterizes his particular style, unique handwriting and his manner. The bright and rich palette of his canvases fascinates, stops and attracts the viewer's gaze for a long time with a unique color variety. In all his works there is always a sincere love for life with all its fullness and diversity, passion for the topic, expression of his inner world and time, as well as joy and delight from the contemplation of the richness of nature. So, the author's works are interesting, reflecting the nature of Kazakhstan and the views of Almaty: the mountain panorama of Ushkonyr, the Turgen gorge, the Charyn canyons, “Alatau”, “Kulan”, “Turgen”, residential complex “Nurly tau”, triptych “Khan Tengri” , "Forest House", "Baum Grove". Winter landscapes of the master “Winter Mountains”, “Batan Gorge”, “Medeo”, etc. are especially delightful.

Master also works in the portrait genre. Respect and sympathy are imbued with portraits of older people who have lived a long difficult life, but have retained kindness and love for others, including: "Apashka" (Granny), "Portrait of Father", "Portrait of D.A. Konayev", etc.

Kantarbayev Maksat – the participant of many exhibitions, was awarded with letters of thanks and diplomas. The master's works are in private collections and museums in Moscow, Astana, Almaty, Taraz and Taldykorgan.

The exhibition presents more than 80 works of the master.

The exhibition will run until March 14, 2019.

31.01.2019 The exhibition of new arrivals, “A gift to the museum - legacy to a generation”

The Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan on January 31, 2019 at 3.00 pm opens the exhibition of new arrivals, “A gift to the museum - legacy to a generation”. The exhibition will display items of museum value donated to the museum’s fund collections during the period 2017-2018.

In the framework of the implementation of the key provisions of the state program "Course towards the future: modernization of Kazakhstan’s identity ", as well as the tasks outlined in the program article of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan N.A. Nazarbayev “Seven Facets of the Great Steppe”, aimed at reviving spirituality and modernizing public consciousness, should update the centuries-old heritage of domestic museums where historical and cultural values are concentrated, raise indicators on research and collection of museum value and promote the role of historical and cultural heritage among the public not only our state, but also of foreign countries.

Having almost two centuries of history, the Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan is one of the most significant museums of the Central Asian region. Today, sources of replenishment of the museum’s fund collections are, as a rule, the gifts of private and legal persons, the collecting works of museum staff, and the organization of archaeological and ethnographic expeditions to collect items of museum value.

Meetings are organized with descendants of famous personalities, negotiations with various organizations, donations are held, and work is carried out using the “hot-trail gathering” method. For example, in the framework of the cultural and educational event “All family in the museum!”, held in connection with the Family Day holiday, in 2017-2018 the museum organized a special promotion “Give a family relic to the museum!”. As a result, personal belongings and documents, photo and video materials of museum value were taken into the funds of the museum. Among them are gifts from the descendants of a literary researcher, critic and scientist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan M. Karataev, an art figure, a famous theater teacher G. Rutkovskaya, a prominent state and public figure, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War S. Zhienbaev, a writer, M.D., Professor S. Gabbasov, President of the Public Association “Kazakh Society of Almaty City on Awards and Titles” A. Zhanabayev, as well as national costumes from ethno-centers.

The purpose of the exhibition: to update the role of historical and cultural heritage; to focus the attention of residents and guests of the city on the transfer of objects of museum value and family relics as a gift to replenish the museum’s fund collections.

11.02.2019 The exhibition “Afghanistan hurts in my soul”

On February 11, 2019, at 15.00, the exhibition “Afghanistan hurts in my soul” will be opened at the Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan.

The Afghan war began in 1979 and lasted for 10 years.

In total, about 620 thousand servicemen of the USSR passed through Afghanistan, 22 thousand of whom were from Kazakhstan.15526 people died during fighting, from wounds and diseases, including 924 people from Kazakhstan.

Missing and captured were 333 people (according to the General Staff of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR), 21 of whom are from Kazakhstan.

The war in Afghanistan did not bring either honor or glory to the Soviet Union. For the relatives and friends of those who died, this war did not end with the withdrawal of troops on February 15, 1989. It remains a bleeding wound that even time cannot heal. The experience of these events teaches that every country and nation should decide their internal affairs on their own, based on the benefits and benefits of their people. After all, soldiers died on the battlefields, and not those who incite the war and profit from it.

The aim of the exhibition is to form an objective view of the Afghan war, patriotic education of a new generation of soldiers and youth on the example of soldiers and officers who fought in Afghanistan, as well as forming the idea that war is not a way to solve political problems.

The exposition was based on documentary materials (photographs, letters, eyewitness accounts and participants of the events), awards and personal belongings of soldiers and officers - Kazakhstani who fought in Afghanistan, both dead and survivors who fulfilled their military duty with honor. Of particular interest to visitors of the exhibition will be a demonstration of military equipment of Soviet soldiers and officers, as well as the Afghan "Dushman".

On the day of the exhibition presentation you will be able to meet with the participants of the war in Afghanistan.

The exhibition was prepared jointly with the City Coordination Council of public associations of veterans and disabled people of the war in Afghanistan and local military conflicts at the Almaty city administration.

26.12.2018 Memorial photo exhibition dedicated to the memory of the famous Chinese folk composer Xian Xinghai.

The Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan together with the Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in Almaty on December 26, 2018 at 3.00 pm open a memorial photo exhibition dedicated to the memory of the famous Chinese folk composer Xian Xinghai.

Xian Xinghai (13.10.1905-30.10.1945) is a folk musician, teacher and communist revolutionary, as well as a famous Chinese composer, pianist, conductor. Xian Xinghai has created more than 250 pieces, including cantatas, opera, symphonies, suites for orchestral music, rhapsody, many solos and ensembles for violin and piano. In his works, he deeply reflected the great reality of the revolution and national liberation of China. A number of his musical works are distinguished by their national style and originality, which have received universal approval among the Chinese people and are still popular today.

He studied at the Institute of Traditional Chinese Music at Beijing University, and then at the Shanghai Conservatory. In 1929, Xian Xinghai went to study in Paris, and in 1935 he returned to China, where he took an active part in the anti-Japanese patriotic movement.

In 1938, Xian Xinghai arrived at the shrine of the Chinese Revolution Yan’an. He was appointed dean of the Faculty of Music at the Lou Xun Institute of Arts (1939). The period of his stay in Yan’an was the most successful period of the composer's creative life: in just one year he wrote his outstanding masterpiece “Cantata on the Yellow River”, as well as “Cantata on Labor”, “Cantata on September 18^th”, “Counteroffensive”, “International Women's Day”, “Down with Wang Jingwei!” and others.

In 1940, Xian Xinghai was sent to the Soviet Union in Moscow, where he completed the first symphony “National Liberation”. In 1941 he moved to Almaty, where he composed the second symphony “Holy War”, “Chinese Rhapsody”, the poem “Amangeldy”. In addition, he collected and reworked many Kazakh folk songs, becoming a messenger between the Chinese and Kazakh peoples.

As a sign of Kazakh-Chinese friendship on October 7, 1998, one of the streets of the city of Almaty was renamed Xian Xinghai Street, where a monument to the composer was installed with the inscription: “In memory of an outstanding Chinese composer, envoy of Chinese-Kazakh friendship and cultural exchange - Xian Xinghai” . This year, on the 113th anniversary of Xian Xinghai, Kazakhstani and Chinese documentalists shot a short film “The Musician”, telling about the composer’s life and career and the sincere friendship between Xian Xinghai and Kazakh composer Bakhytzhan Baikadamov.

The exhibition features 60 photographs showing the composer’s years of study in China and Paris, photos with friends, participation in proletarian cultural musical events, family photos with his wife Qian Yunlin and daughter Nina, textbooks written by Xian Xinghai for the Institute of Arts Lu Xin, periods of life in Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, musical scores of music, years of friendship of the Xian Sinhai and Baikadamov families.

The exhibition will run until January 10, 2019