Bangkok Art and Culture Center (BACC)

In a world unsettled by pandemic aftershocks and tangled geopolitical currents, the old maps of power no longer hold. The centre has fragmented – replaced by a chorus of voices, each rooted in local soil, language and memory. What was once dismissed as peripheral now pulses with its own knowledge, its own beauty and fierce creative force. This project turns to those places – not for spectacle, but for something more intimate. It seeks out the forms of beauty that rise naturally from the everyday: myths whispered through generations, folktales carried on the wind, histories folded into daily rituals. These are aesthetics born not to dazzle global markets but to honour deep connections – to land, sky and the collective stories that bind us all. Until October 10. Free. 7/F, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, 10am-8pm

Helen Grace and Phaptawan Suwannakudt weave a conversation across five decades – a dialogue charting the shifting tides of gender roles in Australia, Thailand and Hong Kong. Their exhibition unfolds through a collage of personal memories and historical moments, layered with sound, image and objects that trace the displacements of time and place. Together, they build an expansive installation: sculpture, video projections and fragments of memory entwined like the lives they’ve lived. Wars endured, motherhood embraced – destruction and creation mirrored in their collaboration, felt as a kind of destiny. Their stories span worlds: Thailand, Australia, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia – regions opening to each other, reshaping a global map. Amid this, a dream of borderless connection emerges, fragile and luminous, just before shadows creep in. The work breathes in folding screens and flickering video – mediums that hold space for their shared histories and hopes. August 14-November 26. Free. 9/F, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, 10am-8pm

Constellation of Complicity gathers work from Myanmar, Iran, Russia, Syria and communities long marked by displacement or autonomy struggles, places often reduced to headlines about conflict. What emerges instead is a map of connections, where power flows less as isolated regimes than as a network of cooperation – diplomacy stitched to military force, economies buttressed by shared violence, sovereignty used as camouflage. The exhibition doesn’t rehearse trauma so much as trace how oppression migrates, mutates and reappears across borders, and how resistance too moves in unexpected echoes. Its title signals a double act: exposing complicity while gesturing toward solidarity. Aesthetics here function as tools – ritual, forensic, speculative – reminding us that art can be evidence, a method of seeing patterns the news rarely lingers on. Until October 19. Free. Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, 10am-8pm

For the first time, the Prix Pictet has arrived in Thailand, bringing with it 12 photographers whose work has been shortlisted for the award’s tenth cycle. The theme, ‘Human’, is both vast and uncomfortably precise. Each artist approaches it from a different angle, tracing the mess and wonder of being alive – whether through documentary, portrait, or images that test the very limits of light. The subjects are unflinching: the violence of borders, the fragility of childhood, the slow collapse of economies, the endurance of Indigenous communities, the marks left behind by industry. Collectively, they ask who we are and what we have done to the planet entrusted to us. Founded seventeen years ago, the Prix Pictet has never felt more urgent. Until November 23. Free. Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, 10am-8pm