Art exhibitions in Bangkok this November

Can faith exist when we're all scrolling? It's not a question White Temple necessarily answers, but one it asks you to feel through your body, through sound, through silence. Thai artist Dujdao Vadhanapakorn and Taiwanese artist Chen Jun Yu have created this collaborative performance at the Jim Thompson Art Centre, blending art and technology like some sort of contemporary ritual. You're not just watching. You're a confessor, releasing secrets through your mobile, through sound, through shadows, through the presence of someone you'll never know. Between technology and belief, between chanting and Wi-Fi signals, something emerges. The performance becomes a bridge, connecting physical Bangkok with the digital world, linking languages, cultures and faith in ways that feel both ancient and desperately now.

November 13-14. B300 via here. The Jim Thompson Art Center Event Space, 6.30pm

Graffiti Social Club started as a Taiwanese gathering back in 2019 and has now made its way to Thailand for the first time. Founded by curator REACH, this isn't your average street art showcase – it's a proper celebration of how graffiti has grown from underground rebellion to a legitimate global art movement. Over the past six years, the platform has popped up in major museums and galleries across Taiwan, giving local spray-can wielders a chance to rub shoulders with the international scene. This Thailand debut brings together 12 acclaimed artists from Taiwan, Japan, the United States, Europe and, naturally, Thailand itself. 

Until January 4, 2026. Free. River City Bangkok, 10am-8pm

This collection captures those fleeting moments where human happiness lives on through art, preserving the beautiful times we're always trying to hold onto. The works here blend a fascination with geometrical forms, reflecting an ideal of abstract balance that feels genuinely alive and constantly shifting. Everything moves with time yet somehow maintains this perfect harmony through sheer simplicity. It's like stepping through a portal where your thoughts can roam pure and liberated, drifting alongside creativity without constraint. What makes this series special is how it translates those intangible feelings – the ones you can't quite put your finger on but know are precious – through clean lines and calculated shapes that still manage to feel wonderfully spontaneous and unbound.

Until November 23. Free. PLAY art house, 10am-5pm

PLAY art house and Rosewood Bangkok have teamed up for their first artistic collaboration, shining a spotlight on Song Wat Road through the eyes of local creators. This exhibition peels back the layers of one of the city's most storied neighbourhoods, where century-old shophouses sit alongside slick new cafes. It brings together artists working across different styles and media, each capturing the peculiar magic of this never-sleeping street. You'll find pieces inspired by everything from the cracks in ancient tiles to chance encounters outside family-run businesses that have been serving the same customers for generations. It's essentially a love letter to Song Wat Road's beautiful contradictions – the way trendy cocktail bars nestle beside traditional Chinese medicine shops, and how morning market chaos gives way to evening temple rituals. Proper neighbourhood storytelling at its finest.

Until January 11, 2026.  3/F, Rosewood Bangkok, The Gallery, 9am-9pm

Pnk.ff's second solo exhibition celebrates everything we usually try to sweep under the rug – the fumbles, the messes, the moments when life doesn't quite go to plan. Rather than hiding these beautifully awkward bits of being human, the artist drags them out and gives them proper gallery treatment. What you'll find here are personal, clumsy snapshots transformed through playful and humorous artworks that feel refreshingly honest. It's essentially an invitation to laugh at your own stumbles whilst recognizing that these wonky moments are what make ordinary stories genuinely memorable. Because let's be real, some days simply refuse to go smoothly, and often it's precisely those off-kilter experiences that stick with us longest.

Until December 27. Free. KICH Ari Space, midday-7pm

Sauce's latest exhibition picks apart the performance we all put on daily – that carefully curated smile, the ‘good person’ act we maintain to meet societal expectations, the emotional mask we wear because power structures demand it. His works treat the smile not as genuine happiness but as a shield concealing suffocated feelings and identities crushed by systems that control both body and mind. Building on his 2023 solo show Exoskeleton, which examined the concept of Body under Body – essentially the shell encasing your true self – this series pushes further. What happens when orchestrated expression becomes so automatic you forget what's real? When politeness transforms from choice to survival mechanism? Sauce's pieces force you to confront how we've all become masters at performing emotions on command, smiling through gritted teeth whilst our actual selves remain buried beneath layers of social conditioning. Uncomfortable viewing, perhaps, but bracingly honest.

Until November 30. Free. Joyman Gallery, 11am-6pm

P.S. Publishing has spent the past decade quietly carving out space for women writers to explore relationships through their own voices and styles. Now this compact publisher is throwing open its doors with an exhibition celebrating nearly 100 books that prove small format doesn't mean small impact. The event packs in proper activities beyond browsing. Talk sessions turn readers and writers from strangers passing by each other on shelves to actual people having honest conversations about love, heartbreak and everything messily in between. Speed Dating follows, pairing you with seven different authors for quick-fire exchanges. Fancy making something? The DIY Book station lets you nick a preface, paragraph and With love and… closing line from various P.S. titles to create your own tiny publication. Meanwhile, Sis Market flips the script with writers and illustrators playing vendors whilst readers shop their handmade creations. Upstairs, Something Blue Library hosts workshops and reading sessions for anyone craving a quieter moment amongst kindred book lovers.

November 7-16. Free. Kinjai Contemporary, 11am-9pm

KYLA Gallery's latest gathering brings together five artists who've each built entire universes around their original characters. The Character Club transforms the gallery space into a proper social hangout for creations that exist somewhere between cartoon boldness, quirky personality studies and those dreamlike companions who feel weirdly familiar even though you've definitely never met them before. Each artist speaks through their own visual language and storytelling approach, creating what's essentially a lively lounge filled with humour, nostalgia and genuine wonder. It's playful, pop-culture-soaked and refreshingly unpretentious about celebrating imagination in all its human (and decidedly not-so-human) forms. Every character here carries their own backstory, waiting for you to wander over and strike up a conversation.

November 7-December 7. Free. KYLA Gallery, 3pm-midnight

Malee Naree, also known as Watcharakoranan Panya, paints like she’s decoding human contradiction. In her exhibition In Layers, each piece slips between tenderness and tenacity, dream and daylight, revealing how the human spirit is stitched together with both grit and grace. The closing work, I Am a Robot, plays with the edges of identity, asking what happens when technology starts to mimic our emotions a little too well. Yet beneath the metallic glint lies something deeply human.

Until November 30. Free. Blacklist Gallery, 10am-6pm

Tsai Kuen-Lin's solo exhibition does something radical: it makes rivers audible. During his residency, the artist submerged recording equipment beneath the Chao Phraya River, Ping River and Ang Kaew Lake, capturing underwater symphonies most of us will never hear. Mae Nam – Mother Water – treats these recordings as living archives rather than ambient noise. What makes this particularly compelling is his material shift: gone are the PVC pipes from earlier outdoor works, replaced now with clay and ceramics embedded with traces from those exact recording sites. Sound becomes tangible; earth meets liquid. It's an exhibition that asks you to reconsider water not as backdrop but as protagonist, carrying memories of communities who've shaped and been shaped by its currents. Wind, earth, water, fire – all four elements collapsed onto gallery walls, whispering stories we've forgotten how to hear.

Until January 10. Free. SAC Gallery, 11am-6pm

MŌCANA returns for its third edition at Lhong 1919, which remains one of Bangkok's few heritage sites that actually earns the title. This year's focus: watching artists dismantle and rebuild notions of tradition through aggressively contemporary work. Kaewtrakan J., Arjinjonathan, Templeboy VI, A-Po Silawit, Paphawee J., XD49 Limited, DFIFTY and SEIRE all contribute pieces that refuse to treat heritage as museum fodder. The MŌCANA Collection – a collaboration between Siam Circle and Maewkhoo – anchors the exhibition, whilst live performances from Song Ravinan, Finale Alinfini, Pie Arisara and Elle ensure you're not just staring at walls all evening. MŌCANA Sound and Tuktuk Radio handle the sonic curation, because even contemplative art viewing requires a proper soundtrack. Call it preservation through reinvention, or just call it overdue.

November 8-10. B1,111 via here and B1,500 at the door. Lhong 1919, 6pm onwards

Japanese street artist Aruta Soup makes his significant Thai solo debut with work that refuses to take itself too seriously – a rarity in contemporary art spaces that often mistake solemnity for depth. His paintings marry free-flowing linework with colours that practically vibrate off the canvas, capturing a specific kind of joyful energy that feels increasingly difficult to manufacture. At the centre sits ‘ZERO,’ his bandaged rabbit character who's become something of a mascot for optimism despite looking like he's recently survived something unfortunate. The rabbit represents fresh starts and hope, which sounds almost painfully earnest until you see how Aruta Soup renders it: with enough playfulness to undercut any potential schmaltz. It's street art that's migrated indoors without losing its original spirit – still accessible, still speaking to connection rather than exclusion.

November 8-December 21. Free. Maison JE Bangkok, 11am-7pm

Santiago Zarzosa's exhibition tackles gravity and energy through abstracts that actually earn the term. His large-scale paintings feature poured pigment cascading downwards, balancing fluidity against density whilst spontaneity wrestles with control. He reads these collisions as metaphors for masculine and feminine forces: opposing, attracting, completing each other without requiring resolution. Meanwhile, his Geometrical Explorations series shifts register entirely. Here, graphite, charcoal and watercolour create delicate frameworks where ruler-drawn precision meets improvisational gesture. One hand measures; the other improvises. The resulting pieces map internal landscapes rather than external ones, charting where calculated thought and instinct meet without either dominating. It's work that resists easy categorisation, which feels appropriate for an artist examining dualities. Call it philosophy rendered in pigment, or just call it unusually thoughtful painting that doesn't apologise for its ambitions.

Until November 30. Free. Matdot Gallery, 10am-6pm

The Taiwan Documentary Film Festival has quietly carved its own corner of the calendar, offering films that linger long after the credits roll. Its lens turns on Taiwanese lives with a patience that feels intimate rather than performative, capturing family routines, political tensions and cities suspended between memory and reinvention. Returning this November, the festival spreads across Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Khon Kaen and Songkhla, linking audiences who might never meet but share a curiosity for stories lived elsewhere. Each screening folds the familiar into the unfamiliar, making landscapes feel like streets you’ve walked and lives feel like echoes of your own. It’s subtle, generous storytelling that proves cinema can shrink distances without ever feeling forced or ornamental.

November 12-16. House Samyan and Century Sukhumvit

For the first time, the Prix Pictet has arrived in Thailand, bringing with it 12 photographers whose work has been shortlisted for the award’s tenth cycle. The theme, ‘Human’, is both vast and uncomfortably precise. Each artist approaches it from a different angle, tracing the mess and wonder of being alive – whether through documentary, portrait, or images that test the very limits of light. The subjects are unflinching: the violence of borders, the fragility of childhood, the slow collapse of economies, the endurance of Indigenous communities, the marks left behind by industry. Collectively, they ask who we are and what we have done to the planet entrusted to us. Founded seventeen years ago, the Prix Pictet has never felt more urgent.

Until November 23. Free. Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, 10am-8pm

This exhibition is a mirror held up to a country suspended in uncertainty. In Thailand, instability has stopped feeling like an interruption and begun to resemble a permanent state – politics without direction, policies that drift, and a population caught between fatigue and quiet despair. Anxiety Storage and Artsaveworld respond to this condition with work that wears irony as armour. At first glance their pieces seem playful, even comic, but beneath the surface is an unmistakable weight: frustration, grief, the stubborn refusal to collapse. What makes the show distinctly Thai is its humour, born out of contradiction and absurdity, a coping mechanism that lets people laugh in order to keep standing. In the cracks of satire, fragments of hope remain.

Until November 16. Free. MunMun Art Destination, 10.30am-7pm

If you’ve ever tumbled into a Junji Ito spiral at 2am, you’ll know his horror isn’t about sudden shocks. It’s the kind that worms under your skin and refuses to leave, lingering long after the page is closed. Think cursed beauties that regenerate no matter how many times they’re destroyed, balloon-headed predators dangling from nooses, and entire towns spiralling into obsession. The Junji Ito Collection Horror House brings those worlds to Bangkok, a walk-through that turns manga dread into something physical, sprawling over 1,500 square metres. Tomie’s ruinous charm and Souichi’s nail-chewing mischief are ready to greet visitors. The real kicker? Ito himself lands on October 11 at SF Cinema, MBK, a chance to meet the mind behind the nightmares and feel, just a little, like fiction is bleeding into life.

October 10-January 5. B300-1,000 via here. MBK Centre, 11am-8pm

Ploenchan ‘Mook’ Vinyaratn has turned Bangkok Kunsthalle into a space where weaving isn’t just craft, it’s conversation. Her most ambitious institutional installation to date reimagines fragments of past textile works, letting textures, colours and forms collide in ways that feel both deliberate and accidental. The building itself – once the Thai Wattana Panich printing house – anchors the work, with 399 circular fabric pieces echoing its original logo, each stamped with words from children’s books once produced on-site. Collaborating with other Thai women, Vinyaratn deconstructs looms and rebuilds them into monumental forms, creating works that pulse with collective memory, resilience and quiet audacity. By the time you leave, the fragments have stitched themselves into a living narrative, a reminder that history, imagination and community can fold seamlessly into one.

September 26-November 30. Free. Bangkok Kunsthalle, 2pm-8pm

Shereif Eldesouky’s new exhibition is a meditation on how we break apart and find our way back. The Egyptian mixed-media artist, now based in Bangkok, draws on memory and sibling love, framing both as fragile yet astonishingly resilient. His chosen metaphor is the reef: sometimes bleached, sometimes reborn, always in flux. The pieces trace cycles of sorrow and repair, suggesting that the same emotional currents that pull us away can, in time, return us to one another. Eldesouky mirrors this in his process, painting, dismantling, then reassembling fragments into forms that speak of survival and renewal. It’s at once personal and planetary, asking us to see our own bonds in the same light as coral – vulnerable, but never beyond revival.

September 20-November 15. Free. Bangkok 1899, 11am-6pm

Leather has always been more than surface – it carries memory, texture, even contradiction. Unveiling Leather: The Language of Modularity gathers seven artists to test just how far that thought can stretch. Here, leather isn’t draped neatly over chairs but stitched, folded, bent and layered until it becomes structure, not skin. Some works recall architectural precision, sharp and geometric, while others surrender to the material’s natural instincts, twisting and flexing into forms that feel almost alive. The exhibition lingers on modularity, on how shapes adapt as easily as lives do, shifting to meet new spaces and new demands. There’s tradition woven through each piece – craftsmanship and heritage intact – but the focus tilts firmly toward the present, where innovation and imagination tug leather into uncharted terrain.

September 20-December 7. Free. Four Seasons ART Space by MOCA Bangkok, 10.30am-7.30pm

75 years after Charles Schulz first drew a small dog with improbable dreams, Snoopy is still everywhere – dancing on T-shirts, perched on mugs, drifting across the cultural imagination with the ease of someone who never grew up. This anniversary exhibition, arriving in Bangkok for the first time, asks what it means for a cartoon beagle to outlast presidents, wars and changing fashions. More than 100 works are on display, gathered across four zones that slip between art, couture, pop culture and nostalgia. Contributions from Thai and international artists sit beside collaborations with major fashion houses, while archival strips remind us that friendship and humour are never dated. 

September 6-December 7. B350-890 via here. RCB Galleria 1-2, River City Bangkok, 10am-8pm

Before the roar, there’s a pause – a hush that falls over the jungle, the kind that signals you’re no longer at the top of the food chain. Jurassic World: The Experience drops you into that moment and doesn’t let go. In this latest, most ambitious version yet, Isla Nublar is reimagined across more than 10 sprawling zones. It’s not just a stroll through a film set – it’s an encounter. Life-sized dinosaurs emerge from the trees, scenes unfold with eerie familiarity and the line between fiction and reality blurs with every step. Presented by Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment, the experience doesn’t ask for your suspension of disbelief. It demands it. The prehistoric past isn’t behind glass. It’s right there, breathing.

August 8 onwards. B579-989 via here. Asiatique The Riverfront, 11am-10pm