The best art exhibitions in Bangkok this November

Can a photograph capture the scent of a flower? Can paper ever return to its original shape after years of folding? Italian artist Renato Leotta takes those questions into Gift to Entropy at Bangkok Kunsthalle. Curated by Stefano Rabolli Pansera, the installation exhibition uses concealed flower films and folded paper slowly relaxing under gravity to explore nature, memory and time. Leotta works across photography, film, sculpture and installation, paying attention to shifting light, tides and landscapes. This residency project also offers a first look at ideas behind his forthcoming work at Khao Yai Art Forest. 

October 30-December 30. Free entry. Bangkok Kunsthalle. Wednesday-Sunday 2pm-8pm; closed Monday-Tuesday.

What happens when lotus flowers become chairs and tropical seeds are cast in lead and resin? French artist Hadrien Gerenton gives nature some strange new functions in The Pool’s Pond Delight at TARS Unlimited in Song Wat. Wild dogs, reptiles and female figures populate an imagined sculpture garden, where botanical forms become furniture and suspended mobiles. Resin, lead and industrial paint lend familiar plants an unfamiliar weight and colour. Drawing on Édouard Manet’s Déjeuner sur l’herbe, Gerenton brings the natural and manufactured together with a slightly unsettling edge.

November 7-December 13. Free entry. TARS Unlimited, Song Wat Road. Tuesday-Sunday 2pm-6pm; closed Monday.

What do butterflies and fish have in common? Illustrator and storyteller Pi-near and papercut artist papeterie,look for connections in Butterfly & Fish at Soko Gallery. Drawing and cut paper trace growth, change, memory and the stories gathered along a journey. Butterflies transform above ground while fish navigate beneath the surface; the works bring those separate paths together through small moments and shared experiences.

October 29-November 24. Free entry. Soko Gallery, Sukhumvit Soi 32. Thursday-Tuesday 11am-6pm; closed Wednesday.

Bangkok Art Biennale’s fifth edition takes Angels and Mara as its theme, settling Bangkok’s City of Angels identity against Mara, the Buddhist figure associated with temptation, desire and inner conflict. The programme brings together 72 artists and collectives from 29 countries, with more than 200 works exploring technology, spirituality, identity and modern life’s contradictions. Eleven main venues spread across the capital, while BAB Plus and BAB Fringe partners extend the programme to Thonburi, Samut Prakan and Suphan Buri. Use the organiser’s venue guide to plan a manageable route.

October 29 2026-February 28 2027. Free biennale admission; check individual venue entry arrangements and opening hours.  main venues across Bangkok.

What do we believe in when we want more? Czech artist Jan Bican examines obsessions with beauty, money, status and success in Gospel of Desire at CLOUD 11. Large-scale, boldly coloured paintings bring saints, human bodies and animals into the same frame as luxury symbols. For his third Bangkok exhibition and fifth in Asia, Bican asks how consumerism and spirituality shape what we value and aspire to.

November 6-January 5, 2027. Free entry. Cloud 11. 10am-8pm.

Ever feel like even your downtime needs to be productive? Tangmo Ladapha Sophonkunkit’s  Cry on Cue at 6060 Arts Space examines work pressures, emotions and the business of turning personal experiences into a career. Installation and live performance reconstruct a dream about a robot housemaid pouring water into her own eyes as theatrical sets. The main event, Dream-set, is a one-on-one performance running for eight hours a day: visitors share the space with the artist one at a time, without needing to say a word, and can come and go.

November 6-28. Free entry. 6060 Arts Space, Pradiphat Soi 21, Saphan Khwai. Monday-Saturday noon-8pm; closed Sunday. Dream-set: November 11-14 and 18-21, noon-8pm.

Esther Luo finds plenty to paint in the moments most of us rush past. In Love in Silence at Maison JE Bangkok, the Taiwanese artist turns ordinary memories, quiet encounters and small gestures of affection into paintings that read like personal letters. Delicate brushwork and carefully chosen colours preserve the people and experiences she holds dear. 

October 31-December 24. Free entry. Maison JE Bangkok, Surawong Road. Exhibition hours: Tuesday-Sunday 11am-7pm; closed Monday.

What makes a place feel like home when inherited family traditions don't quite reflect who we are? The Room We Make at Ming Artspace explores identity, queer belonging and cultural expectations through photography, painting, textiles and drawing. Domestic furniture shares the space with fresh flowers that gradually wilt over the run. Curated by Sophirat Muangkum, the group exhibition asks which parts of our inheritance we keep, change or leave behind.

November 3-30. Free entry. Ming Artspace, Udom Suk. 10am-5pm; closed Sunday. Opening reception: November 3, 6pm onwards.

DIAGE Festival’s October 31-November 1 music programme has finished, but its post-festival installation exhibition is listed to continue at Cloud 11. The highlights include NONOTAK’s 66 beams of light cutting through fog to a percussion soundtrack, Fabrizio Di Salvo’s rotating musical machine and Wit Pimkanchanapong’s woven structure playing with light and shadow. Other installations tackle air pollution and the pace of modern life. Go on, have a play – check which of the seven advertised works remain available before visiting. 

November 2-15. Cloud 11, second floor. Listed as free entry, noon-10pm.

Being human is hard enough without the pressure to have everything sorted. Human After All at Art Jewel brings together figurative paintaings by eight artists, exploring exhaustion, insecurity, fear and the occasional mistake through portraits and personal narratives. Presented by Joyman Gallery and M Contemporary, the show gives the less polished side of everyday life some wall space. Notody gets it right all the time. 

October 21-November 16. Free entry. Art Jewel, fifth floor, Siam Paragon. 10am-10pm.

Thai artist Nobbie Temeekul presents a new painting exhibition that challenges how we see the world and the stories we choose to believe. His oil paintings draw on the rich colours and dramatic brushwork of Western mythological art, but the figures at the centre are deities from Thai tradition. Rather than sticking to the usual images of divine perfection and purity, Nobbie depicts these gods in unexpected poses and situations. The exhibition asks visitors to look a little closer and consider how our own beliefs, as well as the stories we hear, shape what we see.

October 17-November 22. Free entry. Trendy Gallery, Cloud 11. 10am-7pm

Artist Tada Hengsapkul presents his first painting exhibition at 100 Tonson Foundation, introducing an approach to artmaking that uses encaustic, an ancient technique involving heated wax that he spends more than two years researching and developing. His work looks at how religious belief intersects with consumerism, from objects of worship to items that can be bought and sold. Wax becomes a fitting material for this exploration, taking shape through casting, moulding and scraping. Over six months, the gallery transforms into a contemporary altar inspired by ancient objects associated with animistic worship, with paintings and sculptures examining how belief changes over time.

October 17-April 11, 2027. Free entry. 100 Ton Son Foundation. 10am-6pm

Life moves pretty quickly, and it’s easy to miss the little things when you’re rushing from one place to the next. In THE PAUSE, Japanese artist Wataru Kimura turns his attention to everyday scenes and the emotions that often go unnoticed. His pop-style paintings feature human-like characters with expressive faces, capturing small moments that invite a closer look at how we spend our days. Born in 1996 and based in Chiba Prefecture, Kimura is also known for his LOST BOYS series, which explores human emotions through playful, character-driven imagery.

October 17-November 8. Free entry. KYLA Gallery & Wine Bar. 3pm-midnight

South Korean artist Jeon Gi-ok turns discarded cardboard into landscapes, architectural structures and thousands of hand-folded boats in this solo exhibition. Drawing on East Asian landscape painting, the works explore how people and things depend on one another to survive. Cardboard boxes, once used to transport and protect goods, retain marks of their previous lives, while paintings sit partly hidden inside them. Elsewhere, circular structures invite visitors to walk through the work, and folding screens reveal different views as they move. Look closely at the piles of tiny boats, each carrying traces of the artist’s studio practice.

October 24-December 20. Free entry. Atelier 9. 1pm-8pm

What happens when globalisation’s big promises meet the realities of everyday life? This group exhibition, spread across the Jim Thompson Art Center and William Warren Library, brings together existing works and new commissions by artists exploring the systems that shape life in Thailand and Southeast Asia. From migration and economic crises to environmental change and the often-overlooked work of keeping things running, the show looks at globalisation’s lasting effects. Themes of memory, family inheritance and fragile infrastructure run through the works, offering a closer look at the people and places left to manage its consequences.

Featuring artists include Bhumibol Kongtaveelert in collaboration with Anna Golubkova, Pitchada Poolsawad, Piyatida Piyamassakul, Pakapat Limlertphonboon, Sareena Sattapon, Nat Setthana, Marisa Srijunpleang and PLERN VERN.

October 10-March 29, 2027. Free entry. Jim Thompson Art Center and William Warren Library. 10am-6pm

More than 50 years after Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader created them, three of his works arrive at Bangkok Kunsthalle for Bright at Midnight, a solo exhibition curated by Leonardo Orion Dal Colle. Created between 1970 and 1975, the works use simple materials and gestures to explore vulnerability, absence and uncertainty. Presented within the Kunsthalle’s unfinished architecture, they take on a new context in Bangkok, another ‘City of Angels’ thousands of miles from Los Angeles. The exhibition considers how these works speak to a different time and place, with gravity, light and darkness shaping the experience.

October 14-January 10, 2027. Free entry. Bangkok Kunsthalle. 2pm-8pm

American artist Trey Hurst presents a solo exhibition of paintings exploring memory, relationships and the way time changes what we remember. Sitting somewhere between abstraction and recognisable human forms, his figures emerge through layers of paint, with details that appear and disappear across the canvas. Memory is the starting point for the work, rather than a story told in a straightforward way. Look closely and you’ll find shapes that hint at familiar people or moments, leaving room to consider how our memories shift, and which details stay with us long after an experience ends.

Now-November 8. Free entry. PLAY art house. 10am-8pm

Korakrit Arunanondchai’s Love After Death brings together moving images, performance footage and installation, drawing on earlier projects and scenes filmed in an abandoned cinema in Lopburi, inhabited by the city’s famous monkeys. Its fictional narration loosely follows the Lanna legend of Mang Si Hu Ha Ta, also known as Sihuhata, a mythical creature said to eat charcoal and excrete gold. Grief, rituals and spiritual belief recur, continuing an artistic journey that includes Songs for Living and Songs for Dying, both from 2021. Thermal-camera footage, sleeping bodies, taxidermied animals and ritual scenes are cut together like fragments of a strange film.

Until November 14. Free entry. Bangkok CityCity Gallery, Sathorn Soi 1. Thursday-Saturday 1pm-6pm.

After more than 20 years working together across art, design, fashion and architecture, the creative duo behind L’Odyssée turns to personal memories. Developed for ATT 19 with an open brief, the exhibition explores moving countries and the things we carry with us, from photographs and objects to cultural references and emotions. Both artists work on the same surface to make the central two-metre-square pieces. They call these works ‘walls’, where colours, gestures and memories overlap, disappear and return.

October 8-November 29. Free entry. ATT 19. 11am-6pm.

What if you could revisit a memory without changing what happened? Nostalgia Surfer at KICHgallery follows a fictional traveller through old images, sounds, places, objects and colours that still linger. The character reflects the artist’s return to painting after more than a decade away, using an airbrush to look at familiar experiences from a present-day perspective. Some memories emerge clearly, others are faded, distorted or partly imagined. The paintings ask what stays with us and why certain moments keep pulling us back.

October 10-November 14. Free entry. KICHgallery, Soi Ruamrudee 2. From 3pm; check closing time with the gallery.

Munins’ solo exhibition STILL : ON at River City Bangkok explores the work going on behind our thoughts, memories, emotions and decisions. Three processes shape the show: Emotion Encoding, how emotional experiences are recorded; Signal Selection, what we choose to retain; and Neural Pathway, how we see and make sense of what’s in front of us. Familiar moments of tiredness, confusion and quiet reflection connect those processes to everyday life. The artist also considers the changes happening around us, from accelerating technology and information to the human impact on the environment. The invitation is to slow down and consider what your mind is doing, even when you think nothing much is going on.

October 2-November 15. Free entry. RCB Galleria 5, River City Bangkok. Daily 10am-8pm.

Fine lines, etched marks and layers of ink build strange combinations of people, animals, buildings and symbols in the prints featured in Awakened Being at Union Mall. The images sit somewhere between everyday reality, dreams and imagination, leaving room for your own reading rather than following a fixed narrative. Look closely at scraped surfaces and the traces left during printing: each mark records a stage of making, so the process becomes part of the story. Prophecy here is framed as noticing what lies beneath the surface rather than predicting the future. 

Until January 3 2027. Free entry. Union Co-Art Space, fourth floor, Union Mall. 11am-9pm

Remember doodling in the margins of your school notebooks? Doooodles at bit.studio gallery gives that familiar habit a digital, communal twist. Pick up a marker and add your sketches to an interactive artwork where drawings move beyond the paper and connect with other visitors’ scribbles. As everyone adds something, unexpected relationships emerge. No training or carefully planned masterpiece required – just see what happens when your drawing meets someone else’s. 

Friday-Sunday, 2pm-8pm. B200 for students. bit.studio gallery, third floor, Slowcombo, 126 Soi Chulalongkorn 50, Samyan. Tickets

In less than a year, Dib Bangkok has earned international attention, including a place on TIME magazine’s World’s Greatest Places 2026 list. Its new exhibition ‘Giving Life’ brings together more than 160 works by 33 Thai and international artists, with Alexander Calder among the headline names. Known for his suspended mobiles, Calder turns sculpture into moving forms that respond to air and passing visitors. His work shares the gallery with artists from Thailand and across Asia, alongside pieces tracing key developments in the Thai art scene during the 1970s. It’s a chance to see how different generations approach movement, space and making.

September 26-May 3. B150-700 via here. Dib Bangkok. 10am-7pm

Bangkok's growing digital art scene gains a new permanent home as bit.studio opens on the third floor of Slowcombo Samyan. The debut exhibition swaps hands-off gallery etiquette for a far more playful approach, encouraging visitors to tap, move and interact with the works rather than simply stand back. Spread across four rooms, the experience mixes digital installations with sound, light and nostalgic nods to analogue technology. Give yourself time, this is not the sort of show to rush through before coffee downstairs.

Every Friday-Sunday. B200-450 via here. bit.studio gallery. 2pm-8pm

What does queer intimacy look like when desire and distance exist?  Intimate Elsewhere brings together five emerging Southeast Asian artists – Lucas Tan, Mark Hernandez, Thom Nguyen, Theerathat Thongbai and ACHI – to consider longing, memory, identity and place. Tan photographs seductive yet vulnerable poses shaped by dating-app culture, while Hernandez shows two people sharing a room but looking in opposite directions. Nguyen reworks traditional Asian painting through queer identities, while Theerathat and ACHI explore loss, nostalgia, spirituality and the body in landscapes and imagined spaces.

September 10-November 14. Free entry. Adult Material. 11am-6pm

High above Bangkok, Mahanakhon SkyVerse adds something theatrical to its skyline views. Its latest exhibition turns to Thailand, gathering familiar sights and cultural touchpoints before reshaping them through light, sound and scale. Nine rooms carry visitors through shifting scenes: waterfalls crash, coastlines shimmer and neon-lit streets glow after dark. Landmarks appear and dissolve, while regional crafts and traditions surface in unexpected forms. Projection mapping and lasers build environments that change with every step, making a spectacular case for looking afresh at what has been in front of us all along.

Daily. B350 at the door. King Power Mahanakhon. 10am-9pm

Life gets noisy. Opinions fly from every direction, notifications never stop and quiet moments slip through the cracks. The Present Haus, a new project by the Thaicom Foundation, offers a chance to slow down and pay attention to what is happening closer to home: your own thoughts. Located in Soi Ratchawithi 24, the experience unfolds across four C-O-R-E zones built around reflection and mindfulness. It begins in the Mirror Zone, where familiar phrases and internal monologues appear across the space, nudging visitors to question recurring thought patterns and reconnect with parts of themselves that are easy to overlook.

From April 4 onwards. B150 at the door. Heart Quarter, The Present Haus. 10am-6pm

More than 100 works from the private collections of Uthen Phatthananiphon and Piriya Vatchajitpan come together for a rare exhibition that pairs Thai masters with leading international names. Paintings, sculptures and mixed-media pieces by Chakrabhand Posayakrit, Thawan Duchanee, Montien Boonma, Khrua In Khong and Silpa Bhirasri share gallery walls with works by André Butzer, Christian Rex van Minnen, Alexander James, Jason Boyd Kinsella and Matías Sánchez. Rather than following a strict timeline, the exhibition lets surprising conversations emerge, showing how artists from different places and generations often ask remarkably similar questions.

Everyday. B150-250 at the door. Museum Pier. 10am-6pm