Art exhibitions this April

‘Preserve, Maintain, and Extend’ sounds almost instructional, yet the White Elephant Art Competition treats it as an open question. Artists answer in their own language, moving freely across form and surface. Among the works that linger, Branches of the Era by Theerapol Seesang carries a steady gravity, while Doi Ang Khang by Boonmee Saengkham leans closer to memory and place. Recognition matters, but it never overwhelms the wider conversation. Each year, this show marks a subtle shift, where technique evolves and ideas stretch, leaving visitors with something to sit with long after.

Until May 17. Free. Bangkok Art & Culture Centre, 10am-8pm

Peakkyboo’s solo show follows Booky, her hooded, ghost-like figure, drifting through memory with a quiet insistence. Booky never quite arrives anywhere, instead circling moments that feel close enough to touch yet remain out of reach. This time, the character settles by Swan Lake, tucked deep within a forest where people take the form of swans, not by force but by choice. The shift matters. The familiar ballet reference softens, turning from fate to intention, from loss to a kind of staying. Paintings lean heavily on greens and blues, brushed quickly, almost instinctively, as if feeling leads and technique follows. Some scenes blur behind a misted surface, like recollections half-remembered.

Until April 21. Free. m Galleria 2, River City Bangkok, 10am-7pm

Kan Limsathaporn takes River Flows in You by Yiruma as a starting point, letting its familiar melody settle across a series of landscapes shaped by water. Rivers and streams stretch across the canvases, never fixed, always shifting, as if the scene refuses to stay the same for long. Each painting holds a small pause, though nothing truly stops. Colour drifts, edges soften, and time slips past almost unnoticed. 

Until April 16. Free. M Floor, Maison Hotel Bangkok, 10am-8pm

It centres on palimpsest, where time never sits neatly in place. Davisi Boontham works with orihon sketchbooks, drawing loosely across each page before folding them back on themselves. Images that once stay apart now meet, overlap, and shift, forming narratives that refuse a single viewpoint. Past and present sit side by side, not quite settled, carrying traces that stretch across years. The city appears in fragments, remembered and reworked, never entirely whole. What begins within the folds soon exceeds them. Personal histories slip through the paper, shaped by attachment and a quiet sense of longing. 

Until April 19. Free. PLAY art house, 10am-5pm

A group of artists gathers around a shared belief: making can sharpen understanding, even when certainty goes distant. Each contribution reflects a different path, shaped by lived experience, where doubt quietly gives way to something clearer, though never fully fixed. Works shift across visual forms and sensory elements, yet remain loosely aligned, circling an inner journey that questions what we tend to accept. Familiar ideas begin to loosen, making space for something more personal, more grounded in how each artist sees the world. Viewers bring their own histories, meeting these pieces halfway, finding meaning that rarely matches another’s.

Until April 11. Free. Ming Artspace, 10am-7pm

Marc Butler’s latest solo show, disappear here stepping through a cracked mirror. He builds a world shaped by human appetite, where spectacle teeters on the edge of collapse, never quite settling. Sculptures appear raw, almost unsettled, filled with distorted figures, hybrid symbols and fragments that feel oddly familiar. His material language stays direct, refusing polish, which gives each piece a kind of restless energy. Installations spread outward, forming spaces that feel immersive yet slightly uneasy, as if everything exists on repeat. References to consumerism, power and stylised violence slip through without announcement. Moments of dark humour sit beside something more pointed, asking quiet questions about participation. 

April 21-May 23. Fakafei Gallery, 10.30am-6.30am

Thanwa Huangsmut’s Self-Sovereignty turns away from the familiar framing of the female form as something simply admired. His paintings reclaim that space with a sharper sense of agency, shaped by instinct and a confident, deliberate hand. Figures hold their ground, not posed for approval, but fully aware of themselves. Colour carries much of the weight, vivid yet controlled, moving across the canvas with a kind of contained intensity. The question lingers throughout: do we ever fully own our lives, or do we negotiate that idea daily? What stays is a sense of self-possession, expressed without spectacle. These works suggest strength not as performance, but as something steadier, built from within and held with care.

Until May 3. Free. Joyman Gallery, 11am-6pm

Craft here reads like a way of staying present. The exhibition looks at time across Thailand and Southeast Asia as something layered and cyclical, shaped by ritual, labour and shared experience rather than strict progression. Makers move between past and present with a quiet ease, holding inherited knowledge while adjusting to what now demands. Objects carry that negotiation, each one marked by repetition. Slowness becomes intentional, offering an alternative to constant speed and easy consumption. Nothing feels rushed, yet nothing stands still either. 

April 30-16 August. Free. Jim Thompson Art Center, 10am-6pm

Grey rarely settles comfortably within beauty. It lingers between light and dark, feeling and logic, never fully choosing a side. In In the Midst of Gray, Chainarong follows that in-between state through Chawky, a character who carries the quiet weight of growing up without quite knowing how to answer their own emotions. Encounters pass, connections form, affection deepens, then shifts. Not everything finds resolution. Some moments blur, others stay unexpectedly sharp. Chawky moves through this uncertainty with a kind of soft detachment, as if standing just outside their own story. The works feel reflective without becoming heavy. They ask simple questions that don’t quite settle: which memories stay brightest, and why do certain feelings refuse to fade, even as everything else slowly recedes?

Until May 3. Free. Supples Gallery, 11am-6pm

Noo Monthip moves across disciplines with quiet ease, shaping voice, music, fashion and image without ever insisting on attention. This exhibition gathers what she leaves behind, assembled by family and friends who understand that her work speaks best when given space. ‘Wind’ becomes a gentle thread. You don’t see it, but you feel its presence in motion, much like memory that lingers, shifts and returns in unexpected ways. The ground floor, Baan Sailom, invites a slower pace, a place to sit and reflect. Upstairs, her life unfolds through sound, images and objects that feel deeply personal. A music corner hums beside fragments of writing. Another level brings fashion and collaborations, offering a fuller sense of how she connects with others, softly but unmistakably.

Until April 30. Free. Museum Pier, 10am-6pm

Seven voices meet on the same wall, each shaped by different cities yet speaking through the same visual code. Artists from Thailand, France and Switzerland treat graffiti less as rebellion and more as a shared language, one that carries stories of ambition, missteps and quiet persistence. Styles shift from sharp lettering to loose, almost instinctive forms, but a sense of dialogue holds everything together. Youth lingers here, with all its uncertainty and small acts of bravery. Misjudgments sit beside moments of clarity, neither cancelling the other. What stays is the belief that expression matters, even when direction feels unclear, and that instinct often knows before certainty catches up.

March 20-May 3. Free. Maison JE Bangkok, 11am-7pm

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

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

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

Bangkok does not always demand skyscraper gazing. Sometimes it hands you a pocket-sized booklet and suggests a long walk. The BAC Passport returns with its Winter Edition 2026, turning the city into a living sketchbook where each stamp is an achievement. You pick up the passport, roam between art spaces, collect marks and trade them for souvenirs created by actual artists. It plays out like a cultural scavenger hunt, only with better stories to tell afterwards. This season gathers 27 destinations and splits them across four routes, from Old Town corners to riverbank hideouts. Pick up your passport at one of seven locations, including Ratchadamnoen Contemporary Art Center, Bangkok City Library, Chula Museum, River City Bangkok, Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music, Asvin or Numthong Art Space. You have until May 31 to complete the journey.

Until May 31. Free. Art spaces across Bangkok.