Bangkok Kunsthalle

Questions about how we live often sit quietly until art nudges them forward. Bangkok Kunsthalle’s latest exhibition, Description Without Place, brings the uncompromising work of Absalon into focus, offering a rare chance to engage with an artist who treated space as a kind of personal test. Known for pushing against ideas of comfort, control and the limits of the body, Absalon’s practice feels as confrontational now as it did decades ago. For the first time in Asia, all six of his iconic Cells appear as full-scale replicas, carefully presented by curator Stefano Rabolli Pansera. Each structure asks visitors to step closer, measure themselves against narrow walls and unfamiliar proportions. The experience is stark but strangely intimate, encouraging reflection on how much room we really need, and what happens when that space is taken away.   Until May 31 2026. Free. Bangkok Kunsthalle, 2pm-8pm

Dial a number and poetry answers. Dial-A-Poem Thailand gathers 35 Thai artists working across text, image, film, sound and performance, pushing  poetry well beyond the page. Access is  simple – call to +66 97-531-0708 or use the fixed telephone installations at Bangkok Kunsthalle and Khao Yai Art Forest. Each call connects you to a random recording, creating a one-to-one exchange that lasts only as long as you stay on the line. Voices range from intimate messages and algorithmic speech to chance compositions and ritual sound, with street calls, Muay Thai commentary and regional dialects sitting alongside monastic chants. The result is a layered sonic map of contemporary Thai expression. April 24 onwards. Free. Bangkok Kunsthalle. 2pm-8pm