About the studio
A studio of three.
Working between physical and digital practice. A studio in Bali.
Kintsugi Gallery is a small studio. Denys Rzhavskyi founded it in Bali in 2024 to build a working space where painting, music, ritual objects, and digital work could be made under one standard.
Three of us work here. We make and we show. We sell what we make from a small shop and from the gallery floor. A few times a year, we travel to host Kintsugi Camps in other cities.
Founder · Master of Kintsugi 金継ぎの師
Denys Rzhavskyi
Denys Rzhavskyi is a Ukrainian-born artist, poet, and founder of Kintsugi Gallery. He works across painting, ritual objects, music, and digital architecture from the studio he leads in Bali.
His practice is grounded in 金継ぎ (kintsugi), the Japanese craft of repairing broken ceramics with lacquer and powdered gold — extended into a working principle that shapes everything the studio makes.
He also records music as R愛 and with Happy People.
Based in Bali
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Painter · Anchor artist
Evgeniy Lapchenko
Ukrainian painter working at the intersection of classical painting and contemporary mythology. Born in Severodonetsk, formed between Luhansk, Kyiv, and San Francisco.
His Bosch-inspired triptych Garden of Earthly Delights is held at 906 World Cultural Center / Hack Temple in San Francisco. International coverage by NYT News Service/Syndicate, ArchDaily, Archello, and balbek bureau.
His paintings sit at the centre of the Kintsugi Gallery collection.
Based in Bali
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Studio Director · Visual Production
Konstantin Tumasov
Konstantin Tumasov directs the visual production of Kintsugi Gallery — film, motion, and 3D. He shoots and edits the exhibition films, and develops the digital pieces that travel from the gallery into the journal and social channels.
Trained as a civil engineer in Ukraine, he moved into broadcast post-production and spent thirteen years editing international television across Kyiv, Moscow, and Palo Alto. TEFI and Teletriumf awarded.
Since 2022 he works independently as a CG artist — modelling, sculpting, and rigging — alongside his own work in painting and 3D image-making.
Based in Bali
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A working principle, not a metaphor.
In 金継ぎ (kintsugi), a broken ceramic vessel is repaired with gold. The fracture is not hidden — it becomes part of the object's beauty, memory, and value.
From this craft we draw a working principle: a fracture is not the end of an object, it is part of its biography. The same principle is extended to other forms. A painting can hold the trace of a struggle and be stronger for it. A pair of geta can carry the wear of the road. A piece of music can leave its silences in.
Care over noise. Attention over scale. Authorship over volume.
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In the press
Coverage of works held within Kintsugi Gallery.
- 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 →