Art exhibitions this June

UnderHatDaddy, known for conjuring up Chubby – a soft-bodied, soft-eyed heroine with the kind of presence that makes strangers smile without knowing why – turns their gaze inward. This time, the work doesn’t simply ask to be adored; it asks to be understood. Through Chubby, viewers trace the crooked line between delight and despair, where joy can be sudden and unwieldy, and failure arrives dressed as inevitability. There’s pain, yes, but also a strange sort of strength that grows in its shadow. The exhibition doesn’t offer neat resolutions or redemption arcs. Instead, it leans into the contradictions – flesh and spirit, breakage and bloom – where being alive feels both ridiculous and profound. Because perhaps, despite the mess and melancholy, life remains the most bewildering and generous offering we’re given. Until Jun 22. Free. RCB Galleria, Rivercity Bangkok, 10am-8pm

Once, the natural world was something we moved through without thinking – trees, tides, silence. Now, screens pulse in our pockets and satellites map our footsteps before we’ve taken them. The digital age hasn’t just reshaped how we live, it’s quietly rewritten the script of what it means to be human. Connection, once visceral, has become something we scroll for. FutureHype doesn’t promise clarity, but it does linger in the uncertainty. Featuring a dozen Thai artists still young enough to remember analogue childhoods but steeped in the language of algorithms, the show traces the uneasy intersections of memory, machinery and cultural drift. It’s less a nostalgic sigh than a reckoning. Because if the future is already here – fragmented, flickering, half-forgotten – then perhaps art is where we learn how to look at it without blinking. Until Jul 6. Free. Maison JE Art Space, 11am-7pm

There’s a peculiar kind of intimacy in being watched – especially when the eyes belong to creatures who can’t speak, yet have everything to say. This photo installation gathers 1,000 images from 166 photographers, each frame a fleeting moment of animals and pets caught in states of playfulness, quiet contemplation or unexpected tenderness. But it’s not about adorable snapshots. The exhibition unfolds like a subtle conversation, inviting us to reconsider the ties binding human and animal worlds. It asks us to step beyond passive viewing, to lean into the spaces between stillness and motion, to feel rather than just see. And when those creatures’ gazes meet ours, the roles reverse – suddenly, we become the observed. Here, images don’t just capture life – they speak it. Until Jun 29. Free. MunMun Art Destination, 10.30am-7pm

In a world spinning too fast to catch its own breath, Niam Mawornkanong’s work offers a pause – a deliberate slowing down, a moment to listen. His paintings don’t just depict life; they hold it in a fragile balance, dense with feeling and fragmented perception. There’s an insistence on looking beneath the surface, peeling back layers of noise to reveal something quietly true. Among the pieces, the White Dust series stands out – an elegy for a time when images felt less manufactured, less perfect. It wrestles with the slick, hyperreal world of digital snapshots, searching instead for the softness found in faded memories and forgotten moments. In Niam’s brushstrokes, the past isn’t just nostalgia – it’s a haunting, beautiful blur we’re only just beginning to understand. Until Jun 22. Free. Joyman Gallery, 11am-6pm

This exhibition quietly refuses to play along. It carves out a space where art exists untethered – free from labels, expectations or neat categories. Five artists handpicked from the Bangkok Illustration Fair bring work that doesn’t just hang on walls but reaches out, using the MMAD CUBE as a playground to blur the line between creator and viewer. Here, the rules are made to be unraveled. It’s a call to see beyond the obvious, to embrace the tangled, vibrant mess of being human without trying to tame it. Like a frame left deliberately unfinished, the show invites us to expand our view of the world – and recognise the rich, unruly spectrum of colour within ourselves. Until Jun 29. Free. MunMun Art Destination, 10.30am-7pm

There’s a certain daring in how Millennials Flex approach the world – bending and breaking the rules not just to rebel but to remake. It’s a mindset that doesn’t just accept pain but wears it like a badge, turning vulnerability into something visible and vital. Old myths, inherited traditions and history aren’t relics to be preserved untouched. Instead, they become raw material, chopped up and stitched into fresh stories that speak to now. It’s an art of reinvention, where mistakes aren’t failures but lessons, and the familiar is endlessly transformed. This isn’t nostalgia or rejection – it's a restless, vibrant conversation with the past, a refusal to be boxed in by what came before and a celebration of what might come next. Until Jun 28. Free. 6060 Arts Space, midday-8pm

The potholes weren’t metaphorical, though they might as well have been. In Tada Hengsapkul’s latest work, a simple journey home becomes a quiet reckoning – with governance, with memory, with the steady erosion of what should have been maintained. The rutted streets of Bangkok aren’t just inconvenient. They’re symptomatic. Each jolt and swerve calls back the artist’s past trips along Mittraphap Road, the so-called ‘Friendship Highway’, once a Cold War-era gift from America, now a conduit for uneven development stretching from capital to countryside. Here, infrastructure acts as both a relic and reminder – of broken systems and promises that never quite held. What begins as a personal moment unfolds into something far wider, asking not what progress looks like, but whom it truly serves. Not everything built was meant to last. May 17-Jul 13. Free. Hop Photo Gallery, MunMun Srinakarin, 11am-7pm

Tong Napat Kaewmanee’s latest exhibition emerges from the hush of a bedroom long ago, where his mother once sang lullabies laced with death and demons. Sweet on the surface, these bedtime songs hid spectral warnings – folklore masquerading as comfort. Years later, after a stint in art school and the usual rites of urban teenage chaos, Napat returned home to find those eerie refrains still echoing. They weren’t just tunes – they were teachings, temperaments, even entire cosmologies handed down in whispers before sleep. Here, memory isn't nostalgia. It’s a murky blend of maternal warmth, family hierarchy, bruised affection and ghost stories like Sang Thong and the Krasue. His canvases reflect this: furious brushwork, lurid colour, stories retold not for clarity but for catharsis. Childhood, after all, was never all hat innocent. Until Jun 24. Free. BNC Creatives Art Gallery RCA, 10am-6pm

Some performances whisper. A Cage of Fragile Heart seethes. Directed by Madmee Pimdao Panichsamai – whose work at Bangkok Art Biennale 2024 proved she’s not interested in tidy answers – it’s a meditation on the ways we imprison ourselves, not with steel, but with roles, rituals and the gaze of others. There is only one performer, but the stage feels crowded: with duty, fear, the gnawing need to be free. David Bigander moves like a man haunted by versions of himself. Choreography by Pawida Wachirappanyaporn gives the body its own language, while poetry by Win Nimmannorrawut, better known as ‘Romantic Savage’, threads through like breath held too long. This isn’t a narrative. It’s a reckoning – where silence, movement and memory ask the only question that matters: what remains when the mask slips? Jun 7-15. B350-500 via here. River City Bangkok, 6.30pm onwards

In his latest offering, Udom Taephanich – long known for saying too much with a single raised eyebrow – turns his attention to the strange erosion of play. Not the type sold in boxes, but the kind we used to conjure instinctively, when sofa cushions became castles and questions came without hesitation. Back then, imagination was a birthright. We made monsters out of scribbles, entire worlds from cardboard. Then came the invisible border called adulthood, where mistakes became shameful and joy needed justification. A reminder that the real decay isn’t physical – it’s forgetting how to be ridiculous without apology. And maybe, just maybe, it’s reversible. Jun 7-Aug 3. B250-850 via here. The Pinnacle Hall, ICONSIAM, 11am-9pm

This exhibition wants you to look – and keep looking. This is portraiture unraveled, pulled from its classical moorings and reassembled in ways that feel both intimate and estranged. There’s weight and symmetry in works by André Schulze and Lino Lago – nods to tradition, to balance, to the stillness of oil and time. But that’s only one side of the mirror. Celio Koko splinters the form, pulling it towards something more elastic. Adriana Oliver and Chance Cooper remove the face altogether, offering blankness as a kind of truth, or at least a provocation. What does it mean to be seen now? Between digital noise and emotional residue, the exhibition sketches an answer. Or maybe just a question, blurred at the edges, like memory itself. May 30-Jul 30. Free. Agni Gallery, 10am-7pm

Walking in a world where humanity teeters on the brink, and the walls meant to protect are also what keep you trapped. Attack on Titan, Hajime Isayama’s sprawling dystopia, arrives in Bangkok not as a mere manga retrospective but as an experience – one that swells with sound, light and looming structure. The exhibition doesn’t just revisit the story’s famous walls, it builds them around you, as if to remind you where the real monsters are. Among the chaos: a 3D cinema that hurls you into a ten-minute warzone, artefacts from the series frozen in glass, and a four-metre Titan head that stares you down like it knows too much. Until Jun 18. B300-420 via here. Central World, 11am-9pm

In his first solo in Thailand, Marc Butler trades spectacle for something more insidious. His miniature set-pieces, no bigger than a child’s toybox, are sugar-coated traps – vivid, stylised, sometimes cartoonish, always a little unhinged. Think Pop Art on a comedown: colour-slick surfaces masking sharp psychological edges. They catch your eye before quietly unsettling you. There are no grand gestures here, just dioramas of quiet menace. One scene might feel almost playful – until you notice the contorted bodies or the absence of exit. Another sits in a block of sterile white, as if caught mid-dissection. These aren’t just sculptures. They’re traps for the gaze, baited with charm and painted like dreams. Until Jun 22. Free. Fakafei, 10.30am-6.30pm

Chulayarnnon Siriphol doesn’t deal in tidy narratives. His latest work – a 24-part video series stitched from digitised VHS, Mini-DV tapes and archival footage – feels more like an excavation than a film. Ghosts of analogue media flicker across the screen, layered, degraded, insistent. It’s not nostalgia. It’s something more defiant. Titled I a Pixel, We the People, the work reimagines the pixel as protest – a fragment, disposable on its own, but capable of revolution en masse. Siriphol sees digital space not as escape, but battleground. A pixel isn’t innocent. It resists. It remembers. Through fractured images and temporal noise, he maps out a quiet insurgency. The question isn’t whether we’re being watched, but whether we’ve already become part of the screen. Until Jun 21. Free. Bangkok CityCity Gallery, Wed to Sat, 1pm-6pm

Poorboy’s latest exhibition doesn’t worship the road so much as question what we’re really chasing when we set off down it. This exhibition is less about escape and more about what happens in motion – that restless in-between where the landscape blurs, playlists loop and time folds in strange ways. Vehicles appear not as machines but as extensions of the self, weathered companions with their own histories. Destinations feel secondary, even irrelevant. What matters are the fragments: a half-empty petrol station at dusk, the sudden vastness of a field you didn’t mean to find, the silence after the engine cuts out. This isn’t nostalgia. It’s a meditation on movement – and on the small, strange things we learn when we keep going. Until Jun 15. Free. Trendy Gallery, 10am-7pm

At ChangChui Gallery, the boundaries between chaos and creation blur in an exhibition that invites more than just observation. Line Censor’s latest work, framed under the theme ‘Perfect Storm’, promises a deep dive into the complexities of identity and perspective. Whether examining the turbulence of inner conflict or the eruption of societal shifts, his pieces offer a vivid exploration of what happens when forces – both internal and external – collide. Known for his intricate, often unsettling creativity, Line Censor doesn't just present art, he forces a reckoning with it. The result is a visceral experience that lingers long after you leave, the storm still quietly brewing.  May 10-Jun 15. Free. ChangChui Gallery, closed Mon, Tue-Fri, 2pm-10pm, Sat-Sun 11am-10pm

Manit Sriwanichpoom’s latest exhibition invites us to peer into a future carved by human ambition and technology. Through a striking blend of photography and video, the works are generated by artificial intelligence, weaving prompts and big data into a visual narrative. Mars, once a red desert, is rendered in an unsettling shade of shocking pink, offering a jarring contrast that mirrors the environmental and social upheavals we face on Earth. It’s a future where the lines between the real and the imagined blur, raising questions not only about our impact on this planet, but on the ones we’ve yet to touch. The result is a chilling vision of what might await, a quiet warning wrapped in an almost surreal beauty. Until Jun 28. Free. Kathmandu Photo Gallery, 11am-6pm

Doraemon fans, this one’s for you. The 100% Doraemon and Friends Tour arrives in Thailand for the first time, following stops in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Shanghai. The event celebrates Fujiko F. Fujio’s 90th anniversary with life-sized manga figures. Inside, expect two key zones. The first is a manga-inspired space with life-sized figures of Doraemon and his crew – each standing at 123.9 cm, just like in the comics. The second includes a themed cafe and pop-up store with items exclusive to the tour. A giant inflatable Doraemon – the world’s largest – will also debut by the Chao Phraya River, adding a surreal new landmark to Bangkok’s riverside. May 1-June 22. B199-1,790 via here. Attraction Hall, Icon Siam, 10.30am-9pm

In the theme ‘Be Your Own Island’, this exhibition features eight emerging artists, each offering their own distinctive viewpoint. The space is divided into individual rooms, with each artist’s work carefully displayed in its own dedicated area. The diverse range of art on show covers a variety of themes, from personal identity to social issues, allowing visitors to explore different perspectives. Each artist brings their own voice and vision, making for an engaging and thought-provoking experience. This exhibition provides a platform for new talent to showcase their creativity while offering a fresh and dynamic take on contemporary art. Until Jun 29. Free. Bangkok Art & Culture Centre, 10am-8pm

To mark the 20th anniversary of Naruto, 54 Entertainment, in partnership with SL Experiences, presents Naruto The Gallery – an immersive exhibition that invites fans to explore the intertwined fates of Naruto and Sasuke. With seven meticulously curated zones, visitors journey through key moments, from their childhood in Konoha to their fated reunion during the Fourth Great Ninja War. The exhibition is not just a walk down memory lane, though. It showcases original storyboards, character designs and unforgettable anime scenes that reveal the heart of the series. Highlights include a stunning diorama of Hidden Leaf Village, a tribute to iconic quotes and an exclusive collaboration with five emerging Japanese artists. It’s a celebration of the anime’s legacy, full of surprises for fans both old and new. May 31-Jul 31. B250-450 via here. Free for kids below four years old. River City Bangkok, 10am-8pm

This immersive, interactive digital art exhibition themed "Nature and Wildlife" highlights the beauty of ecosystems and biodiversity through advanced techniques like projection mapping, laser art and high-quality media. Spread across nine rooms at King Power Mahanakon, each space presents a distinctive experience reminiscent of a fantastical zoo. Notable features include the Kaleidoscope zone, enveloped in a variety of flowers that serve as food for butterflies; a laser projection room showcasing the majesty of predators; and an interactive underwater world. Youngsters can also enjoy a colouring activity and have their creations appear on the walls. A special surprise awaits with the appearance of Moo Deng, the famous pygmy hippopotamus from Khao Kheow Zoo, who awaits in different rooms to delight you. Until Jul 31. B350 via here and B1,000-1,200 including the Sky Walk via here. Fourth floor, King Power Mahanakon, 10am-9pm