The best art exhibitions in Bangkok this September

Inspired by Eastern traditions and belief systems, Unus Mundus brings together paintings and sculptures by two artists exploring the idea of ‘One World’. Human figures, animals, nature and everyday objects recur throughout, interpreted differently by each artist. Symbols form a visual language for emotion, memory and belief, while the exhibition asks how faith shifts with society and how people make sense of the world. Take your time and see which connections emerge.

August 1-September 26. Free entry. Gallery VER. Midday-6pm

What do we really notice when we look at someone? In WHITE EYES, Pannaporn Tantithamthiti replaces the eyes in her portraits with blank white spaces. Carefully rendered clothes, possessions and familiar settings remain, but the missing gaze makes each figure harder to read. Those photorealistic details also pull attention away from the people themselves. The exhibition asks how heavily we rely on appearances to understand others, particularly as screens, images and visual cues increasingly shape the way we see them.

Now-September 13. Free entry. BNC Creatives, RCA. 11am-7pm

Feelings are hard to pin down. They appear, change and vanish, often before we can understand them, yet remain tangled up with memory, experience and daily life. When I’m Feeling… brings together 11 emerging artists, each exploring these shifting states through their own practice. Rather than settling on one definition, the works consider emotions that are positive, difficult, confusing or simply hard to name, turning fleeting personal experiences into something visitors can stop and think about.

July 18-October 31. Free entry. Xspace Gallery. 10am-5pm

Michael Shaowanasai’s latest solo exhibition spans painting, photography, performance, installation and participation, all laced with dark humour. Drawing on different periods of the artist’s life, the works take familiar things – language, food, photographs, beliefs and cultural symbols – and place them in new contexts. Jokes turn slightly uncomfortable; ordinary objects raise bigger questions about how we assign meaning and value. Michael also prepared a special food menu for opening day. Expect plenty to examine, read and question as you move through the show.

August 24-September 30. Free entry. Blacklist Gallery, MATDOT Art Center. 10am-6pm

A Gray Lens traces how we learn to understand ourselves and the world, moving through childhood, objects, material culture, change and identity. The exhibition uses the Tree of Knowledge – System, Matter, Life, Mind and Culture – as a framework for considering personal growth and everyday experience. Here, grey doesn’t simply signal sadness; it lies between happiness and melancholy, certainty and doubt. Monochrome paintings, found materials and familiar signs turn memories and ordinary observations into quiet questions about growing up.

August 22-September 26. Free entry. KICHgallery. 10am-6pm

Polish artist Marcin Białas examines how we live alongside nature, technology and an increasingly digital world. His drawings and intaglio metal prints pair a centuries-old printmaking technique, prized for precise lines and fine detail, with the language of contemporary art. The works probe where the physical world ends and the artificial begins, tracing connections between biology, culture and technology. Białas has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice since 2020 and exhibited widely across Europe, Canada and Japan.

September 3-October 11. Free entry. ARDEL Gallery of Modern Art. 9am-5pm

Forget zombies and flying cars. The Blursed Sandwich asks what might happen if monkeys inherited human civilisation instead. Created by anxiety storage and Uninspired by Current Events, the exhibition jumps to 2067, when our simian successors look back at the mess we left behind. Its title comes from ‘blursed’, internet slang for something both blessed and cursed – an apt fit for a show mixing humour with unease. Expect absurd works skewering technology, environmental problems and our questionable ideas of progress.

August 1-September 27. Free entry. VS Gallery. 12.30pm-6pm

If you grew up hearing ‘save the last piece for your beautiful girlfriend’ or ‘don’t sing while eating’, you already know how strange Thai folk wisdom can be. In Mystical, Nattiwut Choomanowat revisits familiar sayings and beliefs, including the idea that sticking lemongrass in the ground can stop the rain. His playful contemporary paintings turn these everyday stories into humorous characters while asking why we still follow advice whose origins we rarely question. Rather than deciding whether the beliefs are true, the show explores how they enter daily life and pass between generations.

September 5-27. Free entry. NUMBER 1 GALLERY. 10am-7pm

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

Rain can send everyone running for cover, then slow the city down enough for us to notice pavement reflections or water tapping against a window. Chulalongkorn University’s In the Rain starts with that familiar experience, drawing on the university’s art collection to explore memory, uncertainty, hope and quiet reflection. A suspended rain-cloud installation sets the scene. Visitors can add their own rainy-day thoughts and read short essays on the link between weather and emotion. Thoughtful and gently immersive, it feels made for Bangkok’s wet season.

Now-October 6. Free entry. Chula Museum. 9am-4.30pm

Art festivals often ask you to stand back and observe. UNFEST’26 wants you to join in. Returning through a collaboration between Unformat and Cloud 11, it brings artists, designers, developers and technologists together around real-time technology. Expect immersive dome screenings, interactive simulations, live performances, virtual-production sets and LED installations that respond as visitors move through the space. Technology is treated as a creative tool rather than a gimmick, with the festival examining how it is changing the way art is made and experienced. More events and workshops will be announced ahead of the main festival, so keep this one on your radar.

Now-September 13. Check the schedule here. Second floor, room 218, Cloud 11.

Thai artist, writer and traveller Juli Baker and Summer presents a solo exhibition drawn from her own family story and everyday experiences of care. Through mixed-media paintings and installations, she looks at the often overlooked work that keeps families going, from preparing meals to sitting beside someone when they need company. The starting point is a simple question from her grandmother, who never gets the chance to fly. The exhibition traces their relationship from childhood, when her grandmother cares for her, to later years when the roles reverse and she becomes her grandmother’s caregiver.

August 13-September 20. Free entry. RCB Galleria 5, River City Bangkok. 10am-8pm

A former film studio, theatre and acting school that sat empty for more than 40 years now becomes the setting for Octave Maze Live, a new performance series running from August to October. Hosted inside Asvin's maze-like interiors, the programme brings together musicians, DJs, sound artists and multidisciplinary creators from Thailand and abroad, with each performance responding differently to the building and its history. Expect experimental sound, live improvisation and audiences moving through the space rather than simply watching from a seat. Whether you're curious about contemporary music or performance art, this is a chance to experience one of Bangkok's most unusual cultural venues after dark.

August 1-October 10. B400 via Line Official Account: @ASVIN. Asvin. Check the line up here.

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

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

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

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

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

How much of history is fact, and how much comes from the images we inherit? In Gentle Ghosts With Eyes as Fair, Sirawit Chatu revisits the contested legacy of The King and I, using photography, film and installation to question the stories that have shaped perceptions of Thailand and King Rama IV. Mirrors, staged scenes and recurring gazes draw attention to what is shown – and what remains hidden. Rather than supplying neat answers, Chatu examines the overlap between colonial narratives, popular culture and historical records, reminding us that every version of history reflects the teller’s point of view.

July 25-September 6. Free entry. FAZAL Unlimited. 2pm-6pm

Every Ari regular carries a different map of the neighbourhood: perhaps a long-gone coffee shop, a shortcut down a quiet lane or the house passed each morning on the way to the BTS. Maps of Memories turns those personal recollections into Ari’s first community-made exhibition, inviting residents and visitors to sketch directly onto a shared map. Organised by Puenban Ari, the project draws on psychogeography to explore how everyday experience binds emotion to place. Pick up a blank map around the neighbourhood or download one at home, then return it by August 18 to help createa portrait of Ari shaped by the people who know it best.

August 22-September 2. Free entry. Numthong Art Space. 11am-6pm

Filipino artist BLIC returns with HARD SHIFTS, a new exhibition centred on his signature ‘Humand’ figures, using the familiar motif to consider how people adapt when life refuses to follow a tidy plan. Across paintings and mixed-media works, the artist explores resilience, uncertainty and quiet acceptance without dressing struggle up as triumph. Stress balls appear throughout the exhibition as recurring objects, offering moments of pause rather than easy solutions. Expect expressive colours, oversized hands and characters that keep moving despite the setbacks around them, reflecting everyday experiences that rarely come with neat endings.

August 1-September 5. Free entry. Joyman Gallery. 11am-6pm

Bringing together Pemapsorn Kritsadacharoenpong and Wannita Tankeng, Permission to Feel takes a quieter look at emotion and everyday happiness. Pemapsorn’s raised impasto works give feelings a physical presence, with thick layers of paint that invite a closer look. Wannita’s semi-abstract paintings are lighter and more fluid, using colour and movement to suggest passing moods. Together, the two approaches ask us to slow down and notice ordinary pleasures, from a good cup of coffee to a quiet moment between conversations. No grand achievement required.

August 8-September 6. Free entry. KYLA Gallery & Wine Bar. 3pm-midnight

Memories have a funny habit of sticking around, even when the details start to disappear. Kuala Lumpur-based artist Joey Wong, better known as d'peculiar, explores this idea in Preserved Feelings, a solo exhibition of paintings filled with familiar objects, distorted bodies and strange domestic scenes. Human organs appear beside everyday surroundings, rearranged in ways that invite a second look. Wong treats emotions and memories as things we can keep, alter and revisit over time, asking what happens when a past experience no longer looks quite the same but still carries the same emotional weight.

Now-September 7. Free entry. GalileOasis. 9am-8pm

Jazz and art meet in Jazz Conversation, an exhibition of oil paintings inspired by the look and atmosphere of the post-World War I era. Deep black, brown, indigo, rusty orange, wine red, muted yellow and olive green give the show its vintage character. The standout works explore  ‘Rawness’, using thick, forceful brushstrokes and distorted figures to capture the physical freedom of improvising musicians. Rather than simply recording a performance, the artist uses movement, colour and texture to suggest what happens when players abandon a fixed structure and respond to one another in the moment. 

August 16-September 6. Free. Joyman Gallery. 11am-6pm

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

Wednesday, the shy little dachshund with a devoted following, stars in a thoughtful exhibition that swaps big spectacle for quieter moments. Spread across five themed rooms, the show traces small acts of courage, self-reflection and the awkward reality of stepping outside familiar routines through illustrations, installations and interactive displays. Better yet, River City Bangkok opens its gallery doors to pets for the first time, so well-behaved four-legged companions in carriers or strollers can join the visit too.

July 9-September 6. B100-150 via here. River City Bangkok. 10am-8pm

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