Since antiquity people raised their eyes to the sky, dreamed to escape from gravity and make a space journey. Thanks to the works of Kazakhstani artists of this exhibition now the audience can travel through time and space.

The theme of space appears in the works of several generations of Kazakhstani artists, painters, graphic artists, and sculptors. This is the history of Kazakhstani art from Sergey Kalmykov and his anticipation of space, at which we "overlook", through the exciting dreams of the artists of the seventies after Yuri Gagarin's flight to outer space to the era of independent Kazakhstan, a technocratic global world with private flights in Space X rockets.

A Russian avant-garde artist Sergey Kalmykov was one of the first to invoke the space theme; he had the ability to "see the special worlds" and communicate with visitors from other earth and cosmic civilizations. The ideas of cosmism of the early XX century largely determined his artistic approach, where the "star bowl" becomes the main crucial element.

Alexey Stepanov is another artist, who developed the space theme systematically in his art works. He was the only Soviet artist to have an official access to Baikonur spaceport; he created a significant number of works with tempera painting technique, where the area is filled with the vastness of the universe with space vehicles and their heroic pilots.

The planetary scale in the works by Abdrashit Sydykhanov is manifested by the complex association of spherical bodies and mysterious glow, and the inhabitants of other galaxies are associated to the sun-headed characters of ancient petroglyphs.

In the canvas of Kamil Mullashev the theme of space exploration receives a sublime and poetic interpretation, which was generally natural for the generation of the 1970s; the picture scene unfolds on the background of endless Kazakhstani steppes, where the space era of planet Earth began.

In the works of Alexander Rorokin the visible and the conceptual are organically combined. In an effort to reveal the spiritual essence of nature and to learn its deepest secrets he created complex color-plastic constructions developing the foundations of cup-dome system of Sterligov.

A significant section of the exposition introduces the works of outstanding Kazakhstani graphic artists A. Bakhtygaliev, N. Gayev, T. Ordabekov, E. Sidorkin. Each artist presents his own individual vision of space exploration, primarily through the images of people – the scientists are launching their rockets, the brave astronauts are conquering the sky, and the audience is watching the space flights. Of course, the event that happened on April 12th, 60 years ago became the most important among the achievements of the mankind, so it was impossible not to encourage the artists.

Today this idea has not lost its relevance and significance; it continues to be a source of inspiration for contemporary artists. The exposition includes works by B. Mekebayev, S. Guliyev, E. Zhumanov, each of which brings his own vision and understanding of the theme.

In an effort to understand the structure of the Universe and the fundamental laws of nature, unusual art pieces are created by the sculptor, architect, artist and scientist Saken Narynov. His art search is based on the study of the latest scientific developments in the field of astrophysics, mathematics, topology, and quantum physics. Each of his art work creates a symbolic model of the universe as a collaboration of the intelligence and the plastic expressiveness.