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

A Solo Project: Pratchaya Phinthong

Things to do
Yenarkat
Until Sep 13, 2025

Photograph: Bangkok CityCity Gallery

At first glance, it looks like Pratchaya Phinthong has only shuffled the furniture at Bangkok CityCity Gallery. Step closer though and the whole thing tilts. The gallery’s glass facade has been repurposed into the walls of a vast aquarium that glows green from the street, hinting at life moving within. Yet once inside, the water feels unsettlingly still, almost mute. No fish to watch, no spectacle to reassure you. Instead, a fragile shelter cobbled together from real estate signs floats at the centre, like an echo of Bangkok’s endless construction. Below, shrimp meander across patches of underwater grass as if caretakers of a drowned world. The entire structure rests on concrete slabs hauled up from the car park, blurring exhibition and ruin until you’re unsure which is which. Until September 13. Free. Bangkok CityCity Gallery, 24 hours

Very Thai Market

Things to do
Saladaeng
Until Sep 15, 2025

Photograph: Central Park

Not every market needs to be about bargain hunting or predictable souvenirs. This one is more like a remix of Thai culture, where food, daily essentials and handmade pieces are reworked into something that feels both familiar and surprising. Imagine your grandmother’s recipes tweaked with a modern twist, or everyday items turned into objects you actually want to keep on display. It’s less about tradition as museum piece, more about how old ideas can evolve when people play with them. You’ll wander past stalls that blur the line between craft and design, grab bites that taste like home but look like they’ve had a night out, and maybe even leave with something small that feels like a story. Call it modern Thai, creative Thai, or just – Thai reimagined. Until 15 September. Free. Central Park, 10am-10pm

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Better Look Market

Things to do
Phloen Chit
Until Sep 30, 2025

Photograph: Open House at Central Embassy

The second round of Better Look Market isn’t your usual shopping detour. Born from a team-up between Open House at Central Embassy and Loopers, it feels less like a pop-up and more like a nudge toward doing things differently. The idea is simple: tiny changes stack up, and suddenly you’re living with less waste, more care and a bit of flair. All September, you’ll find a line-up of conversations, workshops and stalls that make sustainability feel less like homework and more like discovery. The highlight zone hosts over 30 small brands – local names with big ideas about quality and conscious living. You might come for the tote bags or refillable bits, but the real takeaway is the sense that greener living doesn’t have to be grim. Until September 30. Free. Open House, Central Embassy, 10am-10pm

SiamANIMA

Things to do
Until Sep 14, 2025

Photograph: Thai Film Archive

Imagine five days where your Netflix queue feels almost embarrassingly small. This festival pulls together animation from over 20 countries, not to drown you in cartoons but to spark a new conversation between audiences and the craft itself. Think of it less as a trade fair and more like a gathering where Thai animation gets the stage it deserves, finally stretching into international dialogue. On the schedule: a film competition unpicking contemporary anxieties from across the globe, screenings that smuggle in voices from elsewhere, workshops led by the people who actually know how to draw hands, an exhibition that messes with how you even perceive moving images, plus seminars and Q&As that collapse the distance between fans, directors and artists. It’s cinema, but stranger and louder. Until September 14. Free. Check the schedule here. Thai Film Archive.

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Making Matters

Things to do
Yaowarat
Until Sep 21, 2025

Photograph: Baan Trok Tua Ngork

In an age where a picture can be generated faster than you can boil a kettle, the idea of slowing down to actually ‘make’ something feels almost radical. That’s the question at the heart of Baan Trok Tua Ngork’s 2025 In-Residence programme, aptly titled Making Matters. This time, it’s the turn of Thyme Neelaphanakul – also known as Blue in Green – a multidisciplinary artist with a habit of coaxing meaning out of rocks, flowers, even the dust beneath our shoes. For this residency, Thyme turns to fire, both as metaphor and material, reshaping nature’s raw edges into something else entirely. Expect two weeks of live studio work, where the process is laid bare, followed by an exhibition stitched together from a month’s worth of experimentation. Until September 21. Free. Baan Trok Tua Ngork, 10am-10pm

1 Day 1,000 Pictures

Things to do
Prawet
Until Nov 19, 2025

Photograph: MunMun Art Destination

Imagine walking into a room flooded with red, green and blue – pure light, stripped to its essentials, yet somehow unfamiliar. That’s the entry point for this exhibition, which brings together 1,000 photographs chosen from an open call, each one a tiny spark in a bigger conversation. Here, though, it’s treated like raw material for storytelling. The result feels less like a gallery and more like stepping into a prism, where photographs don’t hang politely but spill out in waves of colour. It’s part archive, part experiment, and entirely immersive – a reminder that photography is still finding new ways to reinvent how we look. Until October 19. Free. Mun Mun Art Destination, 10.30am-7pm

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Starfy Universe

Things to do
Yaowarat
Until Oct 5, 2025

Photograph: Trendy Gallery

Meet Starfy, a starfish with amnesia and a restless urge to look skyward. For Korean artist Lee Yeonwoo, this lost little creature isn’t just a toy – it’s a mirror. Starfy Universe, his first solo show, transforms the character into paintings and hand-painted sculptures that double as fragments of autobiography. The story goes like this: Starfy wakes beneath the night sky, unsure of who they are, but convinced those distant lights might hold the answer. From there begins a cosmic wander, shape-shifting to survive whatever world comes next. It’s whimsical, yes, but also quietly profound. Every piece folds back onto Lee himself, tracing resilience, longing and the strange comfort of reinvention. Think less cartoon mascot, more alter ego navigating the chaos of memory and identity. Until October 5. Free. Trendy Gallery, River City Bangkok, 10am-7pm

On the Edge I See Yellow

Things to do
Charoenkrung
Until Oct 4, 2025

Photograph: Warin Lab Contemporary

It began with a diary. Maharani Mancanagara found her late grandfather’s notebook, the scribbles of a man once locked away as a political prisoner, and suddenly the gaps in history books had names, faces and memories. That discovery didn’t just alter her – it redirected her entirely, setting her up as a storyteller for those who were quietly erased. Her chosen medium is turmeric. Yes, the kitchen spice, but in her hands it stops being culinary and becomes alchemical: a root that carries survival, wisdom, pre-colonial knowledge passed through generations despite colonial disruption. Its yellow stains aren’t just pigment, they’re testimony. What makes this project compelling is how it refuses to sit still as ‘art’. It doubles as memorial, as medicine, as a bridge between West Sumatra and Southern Thailand, showing that borders can heal as much as they divide. Until October 4. Free. Warin Lab Contemporary, 10.30am-7.30pm

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The Power of Small

Art
Yan Nawa
Until Sep 24, 2025

Photograph: La Lanta Fine Art

Think of it as a crowded dinner table where everyone’s talking at once, yet somehow the chaos makes sense. This exhibition corrals more than 60 Thai artists into one room, their works hung shoulder to shoulder, a chorus rather than a solo. The range is dizzying: established names brush up against fresh voices, delicate sketches neighbour bold experiments, quiet meditations sit beside loud declarations. What ties them together isn’t scale or spectacle, but a shared insistence that even the smallest canvas can carry weight. Wander long enough and you start to see the threads – moments of tenderness, bursts of defiance, reflections of a country balancing tradition with reinvention. Each piece may speak in its own accent, but together they sound like a generation thinking out loud. Until September 24. Free. La Lanta Fine Art, 10am-7pm

Folded Embrace

Things to do
Khlong San
Until Sep 29, 2025

Photograph: Baansuan Sudawan

When was the last time you noticed yourself breathing – not the rushed, shallow kind you do on the commute, but a slow inhale that reminds you you’re still here? Folded Embrace takes that simple act and turns it into something visible. The artist has built an entire language out of paper, folding and colouring it until each crease feels like a pulse, each hue like a memory resurfacing. What might look fragile at first glance carries weight, a reminder that tenderness doesn’t cancel out strength. Some works feel like diary entries, others like half-forgotten dreams pressed flat, yet all hold the same quiet insistence: to pay attention. It isn’t about spectacle. It’s about catching yourself in the moment, and holding on just long enough to feel it. Until September 29. Free. Baansuan Sudawan, 10am-6pm

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.