Anchor artist · Painter
Evgeniy Lapchenko
The painter who turns the present into an icon.
Selected works
In the room and held.
Jester King with a Basketball, 2024
Oil on canvas
€13,000
The pomegranate, the mask, 2023
Oil on canvas
130 × 90 cm
€8,400 (Sold)
Cave of relics, 2024
Oil on canvas
150 × 100 cm
€7,300 (Sold)
Get into the role, 2023
Oil on canvas
120 × 90 cm
€10,500 (Sold)
Ayahuasca, the elder, 2024
Oil on canvas
140 × 95 cm
€10,100 (Sold)
Portrait of a pontiff, 2024
Oil on canvas
60 × 45 cm
€9,800 (Sold)
Shaolin, two strikes, 2024
Mixed media on canvas
120 × 80 cm
€8,700 (Sold)
Sorrow, in chartreuse, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
100 × 100 cm
€8,300 (Sold)
Two helmets, gold and silver, 2023
Oil on canvas
150 × 120 cm
€13,900 (Sold)
Kay and the shard, 2024
Oil on canvas
120 × 160 cm
€8,100 (Sold)
Dragon, with calligraphy, 2023
Mixed media on canvas
100 × 180 cm
€14,500 (Sold)
Temple, fire and dust, 2024
Oil on canvas
140 × 110 cm
€12,400 (Sold)
Icon, cracked gold, 2024
Oil on canvas
120 × 120 cm
€7,400 (Sold)
Firestarter, in ink, 2024
Ink and oil on canvas
180 × 140 cm
€7,300 (Sold)
Untitled, i, 2024
Oil on canvas
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€8,100 (Sold)
Untitled, ii, 2024
Oil on canvas
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€9,700 (Sold)
Untitled, iii, 2024
Oil on canvas
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€9,900 (Sold)
Yellow hood, smoke, 2024
Oil on canvas
180 × 160 cm
€13,400 (Sold)
Blue monk, with rocket, 2024
Spray and oil on canvas
200 × 150 cm
€14,700 (Sold)
The kneeling man, 2024
Oil on canvas
180 × 140 cm
€7,300 (Sold)
Iceberg Slim, pipe, 2024
Oil on canvas
170 × 150 cm
€14,100 (Sold)
Geisha, in cyan, 2023
Spray and oil on canvas
200 × 130 cm
€9,500 (Sold)
Spirit with mushrooms, 2024
Mixed media on canvas
150 × 130 cm
€13,900 (Sold)
Embrace, after the round, 2024
Oil on canvas
160 × 140 cm
€12,300 (Sold)
Jokers, four faces, 2024
Oil on canvas
200 × 140 cm
€9,800 (Sold)
Companion, volcano, 2024
Oil on canvas
180 × 120 cm
€12,700 (Sold)
Companion, gold, 2024
Polished ceramic, gold glaze
45 × 22 × 22 cm, ed. of 8
€14,500 (Sold)
Companion, silver and gold (pair), 2024
Polished ceramic, ed. of 8
45 × 22 × 22 cm each
€10,500 (Sold)
Small one, with shadow, 2024
Oil on canvas
160 × 110 cm
€7,000 (Sold)
Face, in dust and gold, 2024
Spray and oil on canvas
120 × 90 cm
€9,000 (Sold)
Mask, in blue, 2024
Oil on canvas
120 × 120 cm
€11,200 (Sold)
Drakaris, Notre-Dame, 2023
Oil on canvas
180 × 140 cm
€13,600 (Sold)
Short biography
Evgeniy Lapchenko is a Ukrainian artist working at the intersection of classical painting, contemporary mythology, technological culture, and personal transformation. His paintings do not simply decorate space; they reorganize it. They behave like portals — dense, narrative, cinematic images in which the viewer enters a world already in motion.
Born in Severodonetsk and artistically formed between Luhansk, Kyiv, and San Francisco — and exhibiting internationally — Lapchenko belongs to a rare category of painters who treat art history not as a museum archive, but as a living operating system. He takes inherited symbols — saints, myths, machines, pop icons, fragments of memory — and reloads them into the present.
His language is figurative, emotional, and symbolic. It carries the discipline of craft, the ambition of mural painting, and the restlessness of a person who understands that every image is also a confession.
Signature work
Garden of Earthly Delights
906 World Cultural Center / Hack Temple · San Francisco
Context
One of Lapchenko's defining works is Garden of Earthly Delights, a large-scale triptych created for 906 World Cultural Center / Hack Temple in San Francisco — a former Catholic church transformed into a cultural and technological space.
Inspired by Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights, Lapchenko did not make a copy. He staged a new version of the human condition. Paradise, hell, and earthly pleasure remain, but the faces have changed: technology founders, cultural icons, Burning Man, cinematic archetypes, and the mythology of Silicon Valley enter the old structure like new saints, new demons, and new temptations.
NYT News Service/Syndicate coverage described the San Francisco project as a former Catholic church being converted into "a tech palace." In the same media cycle, the Bosch-inspired work was noted as a contemporary reworking by Ukrainian artist Evgeniy Lapchenko.
The work belongs exactly where it was placed: inside the strange cathedral of the twenty-first century, between faith, capital, code, and desire.
Critical position
Lapchenko's strongest gesture is not quotation. It is substitution. He does not simply borrow from Bosch. He asks what Bosch would have seen if the garden of earthly delights had been rebuilt out of screens, start-ups, festivals, algorithms, spiritual branding, and the new cults of success.
In that sense, Lapchenko is not painting nostalgia. He is painting the nervous system of modernity.
His work can be read as a new kind of iconography: not religious in the narrow sense, but charged with the same intensity. It gives the present a face. Sometimes several faces at once.
For collectors
To own a work by Evgeniy Lapchenko is to own a fragment of a larger story: a story about beauty after fracture, about the survival of craft in the age of acceleration, and about the human need to recognize itself inside images bigger than the self.
His paintings carry biography, cultural memory, classical reference, and contemporary myth inside a single image. They are not neutral objects. They create atmosphere, tension, and narrative authority.
Inquire about available works →Documentary
A film about Lapchenko.
Press
Coverage.
Garden of Earthly Delights by Evgeniy Lapchenko was created for 906 World Cultural Center / Hack Temple in San Francisco, a former Catholic church reimagined as a cultural and technological space. The project has been covered internationally:
- Business Standard / NYT News ServiceNellie Bowles / NYT San Francisco syndication; Hack Temple context and “a tech palace” line →
- Exame / NYT News Service-SyndicatePortuguese reprint with direct reference to Ukrainian artist Evgeniy Lapchenko reworking Bosch →
- ArchDaily906 World Cultural Center / balbek bureau →
- ArchelloProject page for 906 World Cultural Center →
- balbek bureauArchitecture documentation, with Lapchenko's triptych in situ →
- PRAGMATIKA.MEDIABiographical and project context on Lapchenko, Slava Balbek, and the Bosch reproduction notebook →
- PhototeleportationArtist profile and interview context →
Contact
Works internationally.
For inquiries and acquisitions: hello@kintsugi.gallery