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

Millennials Flex

Art
Phaya ThaiUntil Jun 28, 2025

Photograph: 6060 Arts Space

There’s a certain daring in how Millennials Flex approach the world – bending and breaking the rules not just to rebel but to remake. It’s a mindset that doesn’t just accept pain but wears it like a badge, turning vulnerability into something visible and vital. Old myths, inherited traditions and history aren’t relics to be preserved untouched. Instead, they become raw material, chopped up and stitched into fresh stories that speak to now. It’s an art of reinvention, where mistakes aren’t failures but lessons, and the familiar is endlessly transformed. This isn’t nostalgia or rejection – it's a restless, vibrant conversation with the past, a refusal to be boxed in by what came before and a celebration of what might come next. Until Jun 28. Free. 6060 Arts Space, midday-8pm

MMAD CUBE: What if we had no pronouns?

Art
PrawetUntil Jun 28, 2025

Photograph: MunMun Art Destination

This exhibition quietly refuses to play along. It carves out a space where art exists untethered – free from labels, expectations or neat categories. Five artists handpicked from the Bangkok Illustration Fair bring work that doesn’t just hang on walls but reaches out, using the MMAD CUBE as a playground to blur the line between creator and viewer. Here, the rules are made to be unraveled. It’s a call to see beyond the obvious, to embrace the tangled, vibrant mess of being human without trying to tame it. Like a frame left deliberately unfinished, the show invites us to expand our view of the world – and recognise the rich, unruly spectrum of colour within ourselves. Until Jun 29. Free. MunMun Art Destination, 10.30am-7pm

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Dancing in the Light

Art
RattanakosinUntil Jun 22, 2025

Photograph: Joyman Gallery

In a world spinning too fast to catch its own breath, Niam Mawornkanong’s work offers a pause – a deliberate slowing down, a moment to listen. His paintings don’t just depict life; they hold it in a fragile balance, dense with feeling and fragmented perception. There’s an insistence on looking beneath the surface, peeling back layers of noise to reveal something quietly true. Among the pieces, the White Dust series stands out – an elegy for a time when images felt less manufactured, less perfect. It wrestles with the slick, hyperreal world of digital snapshots, searching instead for the softness found in faded memories and forgotten moments. In Niam’s brushstrokes, the past isn’t just nostalgia – it’s a haunting, beautiful blur we’re only just beginning to understand. Until Jun 22. Free. Joyman Gallery, 11am-6pm

Pawtrait

Art
PrawetUntil Jun 29, 2025

Photograph: MunMun Art Destination

There’s a peculiar kind of intimacy in being watched – especially when the eyes belong to creatures who can’t speak, yet have everything to say. This photo installation gathers 1,000 images from 166 photographers, each frame a fleeting moment of animals and pets caught in states of playfulness, quiet contemplation or unexpected tenderness. But it’s not about adorable snapshots. The exhibition unfolds like a subtle conversation, inviting us to reconsider the ties binding human and animal worlds. It asks us to step beyond passive viewing, to lean into the spaces between stillness and motion, to feel rather than just see. And when those creatures’ gazes meet ours, the roles reverse – suddenly, we become the observed. Here, images don’t just capture life – they speak it. Until Jun 29. Free. MunMun Art Destination, 10.30am-7pm

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FutureHype

Art
SurawongUntil Jul 6, 2025

Photograph: Maison JE

Once, the natural world was something we moved through without thinking – trees, tides, silence. Now, screens pulse in our pockets and satellites map our footsteps before we’ve taken them. The digital age hasn’t just reshaped how we live, it’s quietly rewritten the script of what it means to be human. Connection, once visceral, has become something we scroll for. FutureHype doesn’t promise clarity, but it does linger in the uncertainty. Featuring a dozen Thai artists still young enough to remember analogue childhoods but steeped in the language of algorithms, the show traces the uneasy intersections of memory, machinery and cultural drift. It’s less a nostalgic sigh than a reckoning. Because if the future is already here – fragmented, flickering, half-forgotten – then perhaps art is where we learn how to look at it without blinking. Until Jul 6. Free. Maison JE Art Space, 11am-7pm

Happy Birthday

Art
YaowaratUntil Jun 22, 2025

Photograph: Rivercity Bangkok

UnderHatDaddy, known for conjuring up Chubby – a soft-bodied, soft-eyed heroine with the kind of presence that makes strangers smile without knowing why – turns their gaze inward. This time, the work doesn’t simply ask to be adored; it asks to be understood. Through Chubby, viewers trace the crooked line between delight and despair, where joy can be sudden and unwieldy, and failure arrives dressed as inevitability. There’s pain, yes, but also a strange sort of strength that grows in its shadow. The exhibition doesn’t offer neat resolutions or redemption arcs. Instead, it leans into the contradictions – flesh and spirit, breakage and bloom – where being alive feels both ridiculous and profound. Because perhaps, despite the mess and melancholy, life remains the most bewildering and generous offering we’re given. Until Jun 22. Free. RCB Galleria, Rivercity Bangkok, 10am-8pm

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Dastardly Dioramas: Twisted Scenes from the Apocalypse

Things to do
RattanakosinUntil Jun 22, 2025

Photograph: mr_marc_butler

In his first solo in Thailand, Marc Butler trades spectacle for something more insidious. His miniature set-pieces, no bigger than a child’s toybox, are sugar-coated traps – vivid, stylised, sometimes cartoonish, always a little unhinged. Think Pop Art on a comedown: colour-slick surfaces masking sharp psychological edges. They catch your eye before quietly unsettling you. There are no grand gestures here, just dioramas of quiet menace. One scene might feel almost playful – until you notice the contorted bodies or the absence of exit. Another sits in a block of sterile white, as if caught mid-dissection. These aren’t just sculptures. They’re traps for the gaze, baited with charm and painted like dreams. Until Jun 22. Free. Fakafei, 10.30am-6.30pm

The Lullaby: ‘olahey olahuek’

Things to do
Huai KhwangUntil Jun 24, 2025

Photograph: BNC Creatives RCA

Tong Napat Kaewmanee’s latest exhibition emerges from the hush of a bedroom long ago, where his mother once sang lullabies laced with death and demons. Sweet on the surface, these bedtime songs hid spectral warnings – folklore masquerading as comfort. Years later, after a stint in art school and the usual rites of urban teenage chaos, Napat returned home to find those eerie refrains still echoing. They weren’t just tunes – they were teachings, temperaments, even entire cosmologies handed down in whispers before sleep. Here, memory isn't nostalgia. It’s a murky blend of maternal warmth, family hierarchy, bruised affection and ghost stories like Sang Thong and the Krasue. His canvases reflect this: furious brushwork, lurid colour, stories retold not for clarity but for catharsis. Childhood, after all, was never all hat innocent. Until Jun 24. Free. BNC Creatives Art Gallery RCA, 10am-6pm

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Lost in DOMLAND

Things to do
CharoennakhonUntil Aug 3, 2025

Photograph: TrendyGallery.Art

In his latest offering, Udom Taephanich – long known for saying too much with a single raised eyebrow – turns his attention to the strange erosion of play. Not the type sold in boxes, but the kind we used to conjure instinctively, when sofa cushions became castles and questions came without hesitation. Back then, imagination was a birthright. We made monsters out of scribbles, entire worlds from cardboard. Then came the invisible border called adulthood, where mistakes became shameful and joy needed justification. A reminder that the real decay isn’t physical – it’s forgetting how to be ridiculous without apology. And maybe, just maybe, it’s reversible. Jun 7-Aug 3. B250-850 via here. The Pinnacle Hall, ICONSIAM, 11am-9pm

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A Cage of Fragile Heart

Things to do
YaowaratUntil Jun 15, 2025

Photograph: A Cage of Fragile Heart

Some performances whisper. A Cage of Fragile Heart seethes. Directed by Madmee Pimdao Panichsamai – whose work at Bangkok Art Biennale 2024 proved she’s not interested in tidy answers – it’s a meditation on the ways we imprison ourselves, not with steel, but with roles, rituals and the gaze of others. There is only one performer, but the stage feels crowded: with duty, fear, the gnawing need to be free. David Bigander moves like a man haunted by versions of himself. Choreography by Pawida Wachirappanyaporn gives the body its own language, while poetry by Win Nimmannorrawut, better known as ‘Romantic Savage’, threads through like breath held too long. This isn’t a narrative. It’s a reckoning – where silence, movement and memory ask the only question that matters: what remains when the mask slips? Jun 7-15. B350-500 via here. River City Bangkok, 6.30pm onwards

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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.