Art exhibitions in Bangkok this March

Five female artists share a gallery, yet the exhibition reads more like a book passed between friends. Paintings line the walls as if they were pages, while the opening text appears as a table of contents split neatly into five chapters. Each section reflects a different perspective shaped by personal memories, lessons gathered over time and quiet reflections on that endlessly winding path called life. What makes the show engaging lies in how each artist speaks through her own visual language. One favours delicate storytelling, another leans on symbols that reveal meaning gradually. Placed side by side, the works build subtle layers that reward a slow walk around the room. Visitors linger, look again and notice details missed at first glance. Fans of any participating artist will likely treat this as a welcome reunion.

Until March 22. Free. PLAY art house, 10am-6pm

18 artists gather under one roof, each with a past or upcoming connection to Joyman Gallery. The premise feels disarmingly simple: falling in love. Not the cinematic version, but that quiet, irrational moment when affection appears without warning and refuses explanation. No checklist of perfection, no debate over right or wrong. Just a sudden sense that something feels right. Several pieces reveal private corners of each artist’s world. A number rarely leave the studio, some previously unseen. Others remain personal favourites kept close for years. Together they create an atmosphere of sincerity, inviting viewers to rediscover the simple pleasure of liking a work without overthinking why.

Until March 22. Free. Joyman Gallery, 11am-6pm

A cheerful pop-up from The Gallery Shop and Flashback marks the birth month of Vincent van Gogh, one of the most beloved figures of the Post‑Impressionism era. The event borrows familiar motifs from his paintings and translates them into objects you can actually hold, wear or take home. The idea celebrates the pleasure of making things rather than obsessing over perfect results. That message echoes Van Gogh’s own story: a life filled with struggle and little recognition while he lived, yet driven by relentless creativity that eventually reshaped modern art. Browse a pop-up shop filled with sunflower patterns and swirling colour references, step into a photobooth styled with painterly backdrops, then turn snapshots into playful keychains decorated with charms inspired by his most recognisable symbols.

Until March 31. Free. The Gallery Shop, River City Bangkok, 10am-8pm

For more than three decades, since 1994, Narong Jarungthamchot – better known as Khod Khai Hua Ro – has recorded everyday political theatre through newspaper cartoons. His drawings tease authority with quick wit and barbed one-liners, the sort readers recognise instantly over morning coffee. Now the artist moves beyond the compact frame of daily strips. In the solo exhibition Designed to Lose: An Unfair Game, Khod presents a large series of paintings that confront the structures shaping Thai society. The tone remains mischievous, yet the scale changes everything. Figures stretch across canvases, symbols appear sharper, and familiar jokes carry heavier undertones. Years of observing power at close range feed this body of work. Inequality, monopolised influence and rigged systems form the backdrop, while Khod’s unmistakable humour continues to deliver the commentary.

Until March 22. Free. Joyman Gallery, 11am-6pm

Yondonjamts presents a curious new chapter with Wolf Loving Princess, a body of work shaped by mythology, language and the slightly illogical territory of dreams. Animals appear as quiet guides throughout the exhibition, nudging viewers to consider the fragile line separating domesticated life from something wilder, lingering just beyond it. The project spreads across artist books, paintings, sculptures, video installations and sound, each medium carrying fragments of a larger story. Yondonjamts plays with translation in a semi-fictional way, mixing ancient Mongolian script, experimental ‘Animal Mongolian’, binary code and English. The result feels like a conversation between the visible world and unseen realms. 

Until April 25. Free. Gallery VER, midday-6pm

Across Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and China, smoke travels more freely than people. Borders mean little to drifting haze, and everyone ends up breathing the same troubled air. This exhibition approaches that shared reality through the work of Karn, who reflects on transboundary pollution not as a distant environmental headline but as a lived condition shaping everyday life across the region. The artist treats air as both subject and medium, turning an invisible crisis into something viewers can sense and contemplate. In doing so, the exhibition also reveals an uncomfortable truth: a resource described as public rarely feels equal within existing social systems. Karn frames climate disaster as more than a single catastrophic moment. Smoke, dust and relentless heat accumulate quietly over time, gradually rewriting the atmosphere around us until this uneasy state begins to feel disturbingly ordinary.

Until April 12. Free. VS Gallery, 12.30pm-6pm

Envelopes arrive like quiet travellers, each carrying a fragment of someone else’s world. This exhibition gathers printmakers from across continents under the tender premise of ‘Mail Art’, where works pass hand to hand before settling side by side on a single wall. Every sheet holds a journey, a memory, a stamp that hints at distance crossed. Printmaking, after all, resists the lazy label of reproduction. It sits somewhere between laboratory and studio, balancing chemistry with instinct. Woodcut, etching, lithography and screen printing share space with newer experiments, each surface revealing social tensions, cultural codes and private fixations. Lines bite, ink lingers, paper breathes. On Saturdays March 7, March 14, March 21 and March 28 from 1pm-3pm, artists demonstrate their craft and welcome walk-ins to make a piece of their own.

March 3-29. Free. Pre-register here. Gallery B1 Room, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, 10am-10pm

Six years on, Mango Art Festival still has its moment. From 4 to 8 March, it settles at River City Bangkok with the theme ‘ICON’, arguing that today’s overlooked objects become tomorrow’s fixations. In the Gallery Zone, Japan’s YOD TOKYO and Editions stands alongside Manila’s Gallery. Sort of. and Malaysia’s A4 ART GALLERY. The Independent Artist area pairs cult provocateur Joan Cornellà with regional names and emerging studios, while 95 fresh faces claim space in the Newcomer section. Craft appears with a sustainable rethink, TOR presents ‘Little Man’, and the main stage hosts candid creative conversations. 

March 4-8. Free. River City Bangkok floors 1 and 2, 11am-8pm

In her latest solo exhibition, Phatnaree Boonmee turns her attention to the values society treats as immovable. Status, power, race – ideas passed down so routinely they begin to feel natural – quietly script behaviour and set the terms of belonging. The contemporary world congratulates itself on inclusivity, yet difference still becomes a pretext for judgement and control, breeding suspicion and private anxiety. A graduate of Silpakorn University in Visual Arts, Phatnaree works with colour and spatial ambiguity to create a low hum of unease. Her canvases avoid ghosts and folklore; instead they trace the architecture of pressure that encourages silence and compliance. Viewers stand before fields of atmosphere that feel almost breathable, sensing how invisible hierarchies shape everyday life.

Until March 28. Free. This Is Unlimited, 2pm-6pm

MOCANA began in New York in 2022 and now travels as a multi-disciplinary pop-up that treats culture as something lived rather than labelled. Built around five pillars, fine art, film, functional art, fashion and food, it gathers international and local names under one shifting roof. Exhibitions sit beside performances and workshops, each designed less for polite observation and more for participation. This edition frames culture as an archive you carry in your body. It lives in music, photographs, half-remembered conversations and objects kept for reasons you cannot quite explain. You listen, you move, you interact. Meaning forms through sound and shared experience, not wall text.

March 21. B1,111-1,666 via here. ASVIN, 2pm onwards

Anastasia Maslova and Damian Black map the uneasy terrain of human attachment, tracing bonds that bruise even as they brighten. Their exhibition studies intimacy as structure: fragile, ferocious, occasionally splintered. Affection leaves marks, yet those same marks seed renewal. Visitors move through a multisensory setting where photographs hang beside paintings, sculptures share space with wearable pieces and interactive objects ask for touch rather than distance. Candles release a signature scent developed with Crystals and Herbs, adding another quiet layer to the experience. Nothing feels decorative; each work circles the paradox of connection, at once tender and unnerving, destructive and generative. You wander, pause, reconsider your own history of closeness, and perhaps recognise that vulnerability often carries its own strange beauty.

March 7-27. Free. Sathorn 11 Art Space, 5pm-2am

STILL House stands quietly among the glass towers of Asoke, a restored heritage home that favours memory over gloss. Its latest chapter exhibition unfolds through a collaboration between NORSE Republics and &Tradition, a name long associated with Danish craft and considered modernism. Rooms shift from domestic familiarity to thoughtful installation. Chairs, lamps and objects sit not as showroom pieces but as prompts for touch and contemplation. Soft scent lingers, sound hums gently, small tastings appear during workshops that encourage slowing down. The exhibition frames design as lived experience rather than static display, offering a brief retreat from the city’s insistence on speed without losing sight of its context.

Until April 15. Free. STILL House, 10am-7pm

An exhibition confronting Thai democracy arrives with unsettling clarity, pairing Manit Sriwanichpoom and Akkara Naktamna in a conversation that feels both personal and painfully public. Their works sketch daily existence beneath rigid political scripts where citizenship becomes an endurance test rather than an act of participation. Photographs and installations lean on sharp metaphors: veiled faces, constricted bodies, environments that appear breathable yet quietly hostile. Each piece questions authority’s gentle language while revealing how control slips through education, media, ritual. Viewers are left wondering what belief even means when vision feels filtered and breath negotiated. Are citizens misled, or simply surviving within limits imposed long before consent? The exhibition asks uncomfortable questions without promising answers, suggesting delusion may not belong to individuals alone but to a system sustained by repetition, fear and uneasy silence.

Until April 12. Free. West Eden Gallery, 11am-6pm

Thai illustrator Lili Tae, also known as Phindita Techamongkhalaphiwat, presents a solo exhibition curated by Jason Yang that feels like stepping through shifting layers of memory, dream and landscape. Her digital paintings grow from quiet encounters with forests, wandering paths and unexpected meetings with flora and fauna, reshaped through a deeply personal lens. Soft brushwork meets luminous colour, allowing realism to brush against fantasy and moments of gentle surrealism without losing emotional clarity. Figures appear suspended between waking life and subconscious reflection, suggesting stories half remembered rather than fully explained. Natural textures echo skin, water, leaves and shifting weather, giving each image a tactile presence despite its digital form. Viewers wander through scenes that feel intimate yet expansive, reflecting how imagination reshapes daily observation without ever fully separating from lived experience.

 Until March 16. Free. GalileOasis Gallery, 9am-8pm

Hands still matter, even now. At Rosewood Bangkok, Made in Thai-Hands arrives through a collaboration with Play Art House, offering a thoughtful look at living craft traditions shaped by patience rather than speed. Curated by independent artist Seada Samdao, the exhibition brings together 10 Thai artists working between inherited techniques and contemporary thinking, without treating either as fixed. Moving through the space feels like travelling across different landscapes, guided by texture, material and touch. Threads hold hours of quiet labour, pigment settles through instinct and surfaces reveal years of repetition. Nothing rushes for attention. Instead, each work carries the weight of human effort and the calm confidence that comes from knowing a process deeply. While the rhythms of making remain central, the voices feel current, led by a generation carrying tradition forward with clarity rather than reverence. Craft here feels alive, personal and quietly defiant.

Until March 20. Free. G/F, Rosewood Bangkok, 9am-9pm

Ideas don’t always arrive fully formed. Some stall, some drift, others get quietly shelved. This experience works like a gentle nudge, using images and sound to retrace the messy design process and wake up thoughts left unfinished. Framed as an Idea Hub, it feels less like an exhibition and more like a mental pit stop. The journey moves through three linked zones. UN-Seed starts small, focusing on the overlooked sparks where concepts usually begin. UN-Form follows, turning the room into an interactive art space that encourages hands-on thinking and playful decision-making. The final section, UN-Select, acts as a holding area for ideas not yet ready to move forward. Nothing is rushed. Visitors can pause, wander and take what they need, shaping meaning at their own speed rather than following a fixed route.

Until April 19. Free. MunMun Art Destination, 10.30am-7pm