Report, personal exhibition of Kalmakhanov Madikhan Seitmakhanovich "Search, ways, solutions", dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the author. In 1991, the talented Karaganda artist Kalmakhanov Madikhan Seitmakhanovich, member of the Union of Artists of the Republic of Kazakhstan, corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of the Republic of Kazakhstan, senior lecturer of the Karaganda University named after E.A. Buketov, master of pedagogical sciences, participant of many foreign, republican, regional exhibitions and symposiums among professional artists, began his professional creative path. His works are kept in the collections of museums and private collections in Kazakhstan, Russia, the CIS countries. Germany, France, Cyprus, the USA, Israel. The artist's work is imbued with love for the homeland, for the cultural traditions of the Kazakh people. Landscapes, portraits, plot paintings are made in the manner of classical painting. The artist manages to convey the mood, the movement of air, the smell of the steppe at one time or another of the year. In the paintings, telling about the life and traditions of nomads, so imperceptibly merged with the modern worldview, but organically coexisting in it, the artist is characterized by combining all this with the help of light grotesque humor, irony to what is happening, which allows you to perceive what is written with a slight smile of tenderness and understanding. And the author's works are equally interesting, when he conveys the perception of the diversity of the world and forms through symbolic images. In the hustle and bustle of everyday life, many things of an adult have a certain form and content associated with the name of this or that object. And only the artist, in his work, reveals the diversity of forms, meaning, fullness from certain objects and events. And the author reveals this diversity in his works, narrating about everyday life metaphorically, sometimes with light irony, and sometimes immersing the viewer in the world of color and form, thereby discussing the wealth of nature bestowed upon people. And now before you is not just a fruit or an object, but a whole story, allegorical and intriguing, with its own philosophy and history. After graduating from the Kazakh State Art Academy in 1997, Kalmakhanov Madikhan Seitmakhanovovich was invited to the Department of Fine Arts and Design of the Karaganda State University named after E.A. Buketov. During his work, he trained over 40 students - winners of various competitions and creative exhibitions at the international, national and regional levels. Developed over 60 educational and methodological complexes for the specialties "Fine Arts and Drawing", "Design", "Visual Arts, Art Work, Graphics and Design", "Fine Arts". Also developed multimedia presentations. In 2014, he received a second higher education in the specialty "Fine Arts and Drawing". In 2016, he graduated from the Master's program in the specialty "Vocational Training". Constantly works with organizations of additional education, artistic direction, where he was repeatedly invited as an expert, jury member and jury chairman to creative competitions and olympiads among teachers of additional education of students of art schools of the city of Karaganda and the region. Repeatedly showed master classes in painting. The artist constantly improves his qualifications in courses of international, republican and regional levels.