Art exhibitions this June

Hotel Art Fair returns to Bangkok after a two-year hiatus, setting up in a new home with plenty of character. This year's venue is Kromo, a Hilton-affiliated hotel inspired by the nine gemstones woven through Bangkok’s ceremonial name, famously recognised as the longest city name in the world. The theme runs throughout the property, from the façade and lobby to the guest rooms, restaurant, bar and rooftop pool. Alongside artworks spread across the hotel, an exclusive party brings collectors, creatives, music lovers and curious visitors together for a lively snapshot of Bangkok’s ever-shifting cultural scene.

June 5-7. Free entry. Kromo Bangkok. 11am-10pm

Some paintings start with an idea. Nuttapon Sawasdee’s latest exhibition starts somewhere harder to pin down. Gut follows instinct before reason has time to tidy things up, letting quick reactions and half-formed thoughts take over the canvas. News headlines, political unease, childhood memories, unnamed desires and lingering anxieties all surface in works that arrive raw rather than overworked. These feel less like carefully composed paintings and more like sudden releases after a long period of emotional digestion. The result is direct, unruly and strikingly candid. 

May 23-July 5. Free entry. Neu Contemporary. Midday-6pm

Bangkok Kunsthalle hands over its cavernous industrial halls to Spirits Melt to Flesh, a striking group exhibition bringing together eight Asian artists under the curatorial direction of Sam I-shan. Working across moving image, sound, sculpture and photography, the artists  respond directly to the building’s rough architecture and layered history. Light flickers across concrete, voices drift through shadowy corners and small encounters appear around every turn. Rather than relying only on what the eye can catch, the show asks visitors to listen, feel and move through the former warehouse as an experience, not just an exhibition.

June 5-October 4. Free entry. Bangkok Kunsthalle. 2pm-8pm

Not all monsters lurk under the bed. Some stay tucked away in old memories, long after the moment has passed. Museum of Monsters explores the parts of ourselves we would rather keep hidden, using bones as traces of past mistakes, heartbreaks and difficult experiences that never quite disappear. Presented as fragments of personal evidence, the works examine how buried memories shape who we become. Less a haunted house than quiet self-reflection, the show asks visitors to confront their imperfections and make peace with the creatures they carry around.

May 8-June 21. Free entry. RCB Galleria 5, River City Bangkok. 10am-8pm

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

Bangkok-based artist and floral designer Sakul Intakul turns to shelter, reflection and belonging in Nest: Sanctuary of the Soul. Using the nest as a symbol of both vulnerability and protection, the exhibition presents sculptural works that draw from nature, craftsmanship and personal contemplation. Best known for his floral installations, Sakul opens a new chapter here, working with space, form and texture on a larger scale. Traditional materials sit alongside contemporary structures, creating quiet environments that invite visitors to slow down, look closely and recover a little stillness.

May 16-June 28. Free entry. La Lanta Fine Art, River City Bangkok. 10am-8pm

Nova Contemporary celebrates its tenth anniversary with Tracing, a solo exhibition by Kawita Vatanajyankur that also marks a decade of collaboration between the gallery and one of Thailand’s most internationally recognised artists. Bringing together key video-performance works from across her career, the show traces recurring themes of labour, authority and the pressures of capitalist systems through the artist’s physically demanding practice. Newer works use artificial intelligence to examine family history, loss and remembrance. Presented alongside her major solo exhibition at Yuz Museum Shanghai, Tracing offers a compelling overview of an artist who keeps using the body as both subject and battleground.

June 6-July 25. Free entry. Nova Contemporary. 11am-7pm

The nude rarely escapes traditional ideas about gender, but Thawatchai Somkong’s MISS sets out to redraw that picture. Focusing on trans women as its central subjects, the exhibition presents portraits and figurative paintings that celebrate lives often left out of mainstream art history. The show arrives as conversations around gender identity continue to evolve across Thailand, even after the country’s recent progress on marriage equality. Working across realism, pop art and cubist influences, Somkong combines bold colour with richly textured surfaces, using each canvas to explore visibility, dignity and the right to define oneself on one's own terms.

June 8-28. Free entry. Blacklist Gallery and Matdot Gallery. 10am-6pm

Just in time for Pride Month, Thai artist Burin Punma opens the gates to BR Fruity Island, a colourful imagined world where identity comes without labels and self-expression takes centre stage. Spanning paintings, sculptures and a new BRlover merchandise collection, the exhibition introduces a cast of playful characters including the BRgoddess and the fruit-born BRboys who inhabit this curious paradise. At the heart of the project is the idea that everyone carries their own Fruiter, a symbol of individuality, happiness and personal energy. Bright, whimsical and unapologetically queer, it celebrates freedom in all its forms.

May 30-June 19. Free entry. GalileOasis Gallery. 9am-8pm

What happens after the lights go out and the studio falls silent? In Peerapol Aintoom’s latest exhibition, toys take on a life of their own, turning familiar objects into imagined companions that share quiet conversations with the artist after dark. Mirrors and reflections run through the show, acting less as visual tricks than portals to shifting perspectives. Playful but not throwaway, the works blur the line between reality and imagination, asking whether ordinary objects might carry stories of their own.

Now-June 12. Free entry. M Contemporary Bangkok, Gaysorn Centre. 10.30am-7pm

High above the city, Mahanakhon SkyVerse trades skyline views for something more theatrical. Its latest exhibition turns to Thailand itself, gathering familiar sights and cultural touchpoints, then reshaping them through light, sound and scale. Nine rooms move visitors across shifting scenes: waterfalls crash, coastlines shimmer and neon-lit streets glow after dark. Landmarks appear, then dissolve, while regional crafts and traditions surface in unexpected ways. Projection mapping and laser work do the heavy lifting, building environments that shift with every step. It makes a strong case for looking again at what is already in front of you, framed with a little more spectacle.

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

Bangkok’s humble flower garland takes on a new form in Stillness in Bloom, a solo exhibition by Taiwanese artist Yu Chuan Chang. Drawing on a sight found all over the city, Chang creates contemporary paintings that move between Eastern and Western artistic traditions while reflecting on beauty’s short life. His blooms stay forever at their peak, suspended in paint long after their real-life counterparts fade.

Presented as a Garland of Eternity dedicated to Bangkok, the works weave together time, memory and emotion. Layer upon layer of pigment works almost like needle and thread, binding petals to canvas with quiet precision. If a garland’s meaning comes from accepting impermanence, Chang’s paintings offer a softer counterpoint: preserving one perfect moment and letting it linger.

May 23-July 12. Free entry. Maison JE Bangkok. 11am-7pm

FV launches its first artist residency exhibition with new work by Deborah Metsch, created following a four-week stay in Bangkok. During her residency, the artist works closely with the Atelier Pichita team, exploring Thai textile traditions, local craftsmanship and contemporary design through research, experimentation and creative exchange.

The resulting exhibition brings together collaborative pieces that sit between art and fashion. Rather than simply borrowing visual cues from clothing, Metsch develops a conversation with Pichita’s celebrated approach to embellishment and the female silhouette. Beading, fabric and structural details reappear as layered compositions, where transparency, texture and tension echo the rituals of dressing and adornment.

May 24-June 20. Free entry. FV39. 11am-7pm

Yaowarat welcomes the Bangkok debut of Filipino artist and sculptor Jinggoy Buensuceso with Cosmic Bloom, an immersive solo exhibition taking over Luenrit. Known as one of the Philippines’ leading contemporary sculptors, Buensuceso builds large-scale installations from industrial materials, shaping them through an origami-inspired visual language that explores motion, tension and constant change.

Spread across multiple levels, Cosmic Bloom follows a journey of entry, expansion and release. Here, sculpture becomes an environment to move through rather than something viewed from a distance. The result is a striking exploration of perception, consciousness and our place within the wider universe.

June 4-July 28. Free entry. Luenrit Yaowarat. 9am-5pm

An entire Akha house now stands in the middle of Bangkok, carefully dismantled from a village in northern Thailand and rebuilt piece by piece inside an art gallery. Roof panels, woven bedding, timber floors and weathered household objects all carry marks of the people who once lived among them, quietly tracing a way of life that grows more fragile with each passing generation.

The Akha are an Indigenous ethnic group whose communities are spread across the mountains of northern Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and southern China, known for their intricate textiles, spiritual rituals and deep connection to land and ancestry. In recent decades, migration, tourism and rapid development have reshaped many of those traditions. Through memory, craftsmanship and personal histories, The Preservation of Fire by Busui Ajaw keeps those stories alive a little longer.

May 15-November 1. Free entry. Bangkok Kunsthalle. 2pm-8pm

Factories, pipelines and scarred coastlines sit at the centre of this striking photography exhibition by Sukrit Patjuntadusit, which examines the environmental cost carried by Rayong Province. Human presence lingers quietly throughout the series, whether through industrial structures, contaminated water or damaged landscapes altered over time. What sets the show apart is Sukrit’s use of the ‘film soup’ technique. Wastewater gathered from real industrial sites becomes part of the film development process itself, allowing chemicals to stain, corrode and warp the negatives. Pollution doesn’t simply appear as subject matter here – it physically reshapes the photographs. A free documentary screening and discussion session also takes place on Saturday June 6 from 1pm to 3pm.

Now-June 23. Free entry. 2/F, Fotoclub BKK. 11am-8pm

MunMun Srinakarin opens MMAD Gallery with six exhibitions from the first artists selected through the MMADness is Calling project, giving emerging names space to experiment across installation, sculpture, sound and textiles. Psyche and Flesh turns suffering and memory into tactile forms, while Upper’s What Lies on Top of the Mountain pairs animation, towering canvases and atmospheric audio to unpack the awkward quiet after intimacy. Elsewhere, Jhanyar’s 24/7 Objects reframes Bangkok’s pavements and everyday clutter with a sharply observant eye for city life. Steam Stream drifts through water and rice fields, Sunburn The Kid reconstructs discarded fabric into new textile works and Fish Are Friends introduces scrap-metal fish puppets for anyone carrying around a little low-level loneliness.

May 7-June 21. Free. MMAD GALLERY. 11am-7pm

Colour takes charge in this punchy crossover show by Hugo Brun, where contemporary art meets furniture with a confident shrug. Chairs, tables and sculptural pieces arrive in vivid contrasts, each one pushing against expectation without losing its sense of play. Brun draws from both city life and the natural world, pairing organic forms with sharper, urban lines. Materials shift from smooth to textured, polished to raw, often within the same piece. The result sits somewhere between functional object and statement artwork, refusing to settle neatly in either camp. It’s bold without shouting, inventive without trying too hard, and just the right amount of unexpected.

Until June 29. Free. G/F, Siam Discovery. 10am-8pm

First staged in Cheongju Craft Biennale, this group exhibition arrives in Bangkok following a debut as the Invited Country Pavilion in Cheongju, South Korea. The project grows from an ongoing exchange between Thailand and the Republic of Korea, setting craft alongside contemporary art across Southeast and East Asia. At its core sits ‘Elastic Time’, a curatorial thread that questions how time behaves across the region. Forget neat timelines. Here, past, present and future overlap, repeat and quietly reshape one another. The Cheongju edition sets the tone as a cross-cultural conversation, where material, process and memory carry equal weight. Artists approach craft not as something fixed, but as a way to consider what unfolds now, and what might come next.

Until August 16. Free. Jim Thompson Art Center. 10am-6pm