Things to do in Bangkok today

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Thursday January 30 2025

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Find the best things to do from the daytime to the nighttime in Bangkok with our events calendar of 2025’s coolest events, including parties, concerts, films and art exhibits.

Events in Bangkok today

I a Pixel, We the People

Things to do
YenarkatUntil Jun 21, 2025

Photograph: Bangkok CityCity Gallery

Chulayarnnon Siriphol doesn’t deal in tidy narratives. His latest work – a 24-part video series stitched from digitised VHS, Mini-DV tapes and archival footage – feels more like an excavation than a film. Ghosts of analogue media flicker across the screen, layered, degraded, insistent. It’s not nostalgia. It’s something more defiant. Titled I a Pixel, We the People, the work reimagines the pixel as protest – a fragment, disposable on its own, but capable of revolution en masse. Siriphol sees digital space not as escape, but battleground. A pixel isn’t innocent. It resists. It remembers. Through fractured images and temporal noise, he maps out a quiet insurgency. The question isn’t whether we’re being watched, but whether we’ve already become part of the screen. Until Jun 21. Free. Bangkok CityCity Gallery, Wed to Sat, 1pm-6pm

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Neilson Hays Library Bi-Annual Book Sale

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SurawongUntil May 25, 2025

Photograph: Neilson Hays Library

It’s part book sale, part quiet act of preservation. For a handful of coins – B20 onwards, if you’re counting – you can sift through tables stacked with pre-loved titles and ex-library oddities in both Thai and English. Dog-eared novels, forgotten cookbooks, possibly a dictionary last opened in 1994. But beneath the paperbacks and fading spines, there’s a larger story: proceeds go toward maintaining the historic library itself, along with the programmes that keep its heart beating. Storytime sessions for restless toddlers, talks for bookish grown-ups, school visits, writing contests, exhibitions – the kind of soft infrastructure that rarely makes headlines but quietly shapes lives. It’s not just a sale. It’s a small investment in curiosity, chaos and the stubborn magic of public space that still believes everyone belongs. May 17-25. Free. Neilson Hays Library, 9.30pm-7pm

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Future Hype

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SurawongUntil Jul 6, 2025

Photograph: zensnnjr_

Zen Sanehngamjaroen doesn’t offer easy answers. Instead, she asks you to join FutureHype: The Wave of Tomorrow, a group show at Maison JE that doesn’t so much predict the future as hold a mirror to the chaos of now. In her hands, curation becomes something more nuanced – less a selection, more a dissection. Twelve Thai artists respond to a world caught mid-transformation, where tradition is unravelling and tech keeps rewriting the rules. It isn’t just about gadgets or screens. It’s about the quiet shift in how we relate to each other, to time, to the planet. Culture frays, rituals dissolve, belief systems buckle under digital weight. There’s beauty here, but it’s laced with uncertainty. A gentle warning, perhaps: in the rush forward, we might lose more than we think. May 17-Jul 6. Free. Maison JE Art Space, 11am-7pm

Hit the Road

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YaowaratUntil Jun 15, 2025

Photograph: Trendy Gallery

Poorboy’s latest exhibition doesn’t worship the road so much as question what we’re really chasing when we set off down it. This exhibition is less about escape and more about what happens in motion – that restless in-between where the landscape blurs, playlists loop and time folds in strange ways. Vehicles appear not as machines but as extensions of the self, weathered companions with their own histories. Destinations feel secondary, even irrelevant. What matters are the fragments: a half-empty petrol station at dusk, the sudden vastness of a field you didn’t mean to find, the silence after the engine cuts out. This isn’t nostalgia. It’s a meditation on movement – and on the small, strange things we learn when we keep going. Until Jun 15. Free. Trendy Gallery, 10am-7pm

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Etched in Time

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Lak SiUntil Jun 30, 2025

Photograph: Jirasak Anujohn

There’s a stillness to Jirasak Anujohn’s latest solo exhibition – a quiet that doesn’t demand attention, but earns it. His chosen tool, charcoal, feels less like medium and more like memory, dragging itself across paper to uncover something already there. Known for portraits that trace the soft erosion of time in the elderly, Jirasak now turns his eye downward – from face to hand. These are not just hands. They have sewn, suffered, carried, grieved. Each line seems earned. In brownish blacks and dusty greys, fingers bend like the pages of a long-read book, worn but intact. The show doesn’t chase sentimentality, nor does it moralise. It simply observes. And in doing so, offers a gentle resistance to a culture obsessed with youth, speed and erasure. Nothing loud. Just what’s left, when everything else has gone. May 16-Jun 30. Free. Ground Bangkok, 10am-7pm

Timeless Thai

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RattanakosinUntil May 31, 2025

Photograph: 10 10 Art Space

An exhibition by seven artists brings together traditional and modern Thai art in a celebration of the essence of cultural heritage. In Phra Nakhon, an area rich in history, timeless architecture and artistic treasures from the Ayutthayan to the Rattanakosin eras remain a testament to Thailand’s enduring identity. This unique showcase blends classical and contemporary styles, offering a fresh interpretation of the nation’s artistic legacy. Set on Phra Arthit Road, a historic and cultural hub, the event highlights the creativity and spirit of Thai culture. Visitors, both local and international, are invited to explore the connections between past and present while gaining a deeper appreciation of the artistic traditions that continue to shape the country. Apr 1-May 31. Free. 10 10 Art Space, 10am-7pm

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Early Years Project

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SiamUntil Jun 29, 2025

Photograph: Bangkok Art & Culture Centre

In the theme ‘Be Your Own Island’, this exhibition features eight emerging artists, each offering their own distinctive viewpoint. The space is divided into individual rooms, with each artist’s work carefully displayed in its own dedicated area. The diverse range of art on show covers a variety of themes, from personal identity to social issues, allowing visitors to explore different perspectives. Each artist brings their own voice and vision, making for an engaging and thought-provoking experience. This exhibition provides a platform for new talent to showcase their creativity while offering a fresh and dynamic take on contemporary art. Until Jun 29. Free. Bangkok Art & Culture Centre, 10am-8pm

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Phloen ChitUntil Jun 9, 2025

Photograph: Central Chidlom

In Mit Jai Inn’s world, a canvas doesn’t sit politely on a wall. It spills, folds, stretches, unravels. His latest exhibition, anchored in the concept of 'Scroll’, fuses Eastern scroll painting with Western traditions, only to unpick them entirely. Works pulse with layered pigment and movement, rejecting the idea of a fixed perspective. They’re less images, more surfaces in flux. Then there’s Floor Work – not a series so much as a provocation. These pieces abandon the wall altogether, sprawling across the ground in thick, textured layers. They turn viewing into something spatial, even physical, asking you to tread carefully, literally. Mit Jai Inn isn’t offering neat stories or tidy frames. His art resists resolution. What you get instead is colour, contradiction and a quiet refusal to stay still. Until Jun 9. Free. Central Chidlom, 10am-10pm

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A Rocking Road to the Moon

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PrawetUntil Jul 13, 2025

Photograph: 3d_eyes_cafe

The potholes weren’t metaphorical, though they might as well have been. In Tada Hengsapkul’s latest work, a simple journey home becomes a quiet reckoning – with governance, with memory, with the steady erosion of what should have been maintained. The rutted streets of Bangkok aren’t just inconvenient. They’re symptomatic. Each jolt and swerve calls back the artist’s past trips along Mittraphap Road, the so-called ‘Friendship Highway’, once a Cold War-era gift from America, now a conduit for uneven development stretching from capital to countryside. Here, infrastructure acts as both a relic and reminder – of broken systems and promises that never quite held. What begins as a personal moment unfolds into something far wider, asking not what progress looks like, but whom it truly serves. Not everything built was meant to last. May 17-Jul 13. Free. Hop Photo Gallery, MunMun Srinakarin, 11am-7pm

Back to the Flow

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Yan NawaUntil May 31, 2025

Photograph: La Lanta Fine Art

Inspiration rarely arrives fully formed. For the six artists in this group exhibition, it flickers through memory, mood and myth – glimpses of childhood, half-remembered stories, fractured aesthetics that don’t quite align. Some find it in the quiet chaos of the present, others in the shape of a feeling they haven’t named yet. The works are varied, but the intent is shared: to give shape to thought, however slippery. What binds them isn’t subject matter, but obsession – with process, with precision, with the fragile act of turning the immaterial into something that holds its weight. There’s no manifesto here, no single voice. Just six distinct paths tracing the same question: how do you make the invisible visible, and keep it honest? Until May 31. Free. La Lanta Fine Art, 10am-7pm

Movies now showing

Black Widow

Film Frame©Marvel Studios 2020

Release date: October 1

It’s been a long time coming for this Marvel femme fatale to shine on her own. This month, we finally learn of the backstory of Natasha Romanoff (aka Black Widow) as a Russian undercover agent before her glory days with the Avengers.

Malignant

Warner Bros

Release date: October 1

From the mind of Hollywood’s main horror conjuror James Wan comes a new horrifying story about Madison, a mother-to-be who suddenly loses her baby and then starts to see visions of gory murders committed by her imaginary childhood friend Gabriel.

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A Quiet Place Part II

imdb

Release date: October 1

In this sequel to the nail-biting 2018 hit, we are taken on a flashback to when sound-sensitive aliens first landed on Earth, causing chaos and carnage. In present day, newly widowed mother Evelyn (still brilliantly played by Emily Blunt) now knows the weakness of their extraterrestrial nemeses. She and her children venture out to band with other survivors while dealing with their own traumas.

Supernova

Studiocanal

Release date: October 7

In this emotion-driven tear-jerker, a mature gay couple embarks on a road trip across England to cherish a few happy moments together before one of them is completely overtaken by dementia.

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No Time to Die

MGM

Release date: October 7

Daniel Craig’s fifth and last outing as 007 sees the now-retired agent briefly going back into action to chase after yet another mysterious baddie who plans to cause chaos with destructive new technology.

The Suicide Squad

Warner Bros

Release date: October 1

Don’t confuse this with the critically-panned 2016 attempt at giving life to a troop of crazy DC supervillains back in 2016. The Suicide Squad (as opposed to just “Suicide Squad”) is the sequel-slash-reboot, as well as an ambitious undertaking to overshadow the reputation of the original incarnation. It’s directed by James Gunn (you know, of Marvel’s Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy fame), so it would be interesting to see how the movie pans out.

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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Release date: October 13

This latest superhero release follows the story of Shang-Chi, Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first Asian champion, a former martial arts master who has to confront his buried past when the mysterious Ten Rings organization comes after him.

Fast & Furious 9

Universal Pictures

Release date: October 21

Just when you thought it was all over, it keeps coming back for more. In this ninth installment of the petrol-burning franchise, the spotlight is trained on Dom Toretto’s life in retirement and domestic bliss, which is disrupted by the appearance of his brother Jakob who has an axe to grind.

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Free Guy

20th Century Studios

Release date: October 7

Realizing that he is a character in a video game, Guy decides to take control of his own fate in the virtual world and make himself the hero of his own adventure—to precarious but comical results.

Suicide Forest Village

All Horror

Release date: October 13

The spine-chilling myth surrounding the Aokigahara forest or Japan’s Suicide Forest is revisited in this spooky film by horror maestro Takashi Shimizu—he who terrified the world with the Ju-On, popularly known as The Grudge, series.