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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

Play chess between moves on the dancefloor at Le Cafe des Stagiaires' playful social night

Things to do
Sathorn 10-12
Jan 8, 2026

Photograph: Le Cafe des Stagiaires

Le Cafe des Stagiaires Bangkok has turned an ordinary night into a social experiment. Boards sit between bodies, pieces nudged while feet shift to the music. It is playful rather than precious, the sort of setting where concentration slips easily into conversation. Alex Zaldua is behind the decks, shaping a soundtrack that nudges the room forward without demanding attention. Tracks stretch and loosen, giving players time to stare down a rook or abandon the board altogether. Someone wins, someone loses, nobody keeps score for long. The appeal lies in the overlap, where strategy meets rhythm and strangers become temporary teammates. You leave slightly lighter, mildly smug and already planning a rematch. January 8. Free. Le Cafe des Stagiaires Bangkok, 7pm onwards

Experience Czech contemporary art as Jan Bican returns with light-driven works about privacy and distance

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Yaowarat
Until Jan 28, 2026

Photograph: jan_bican

Czech contemporary art gets a brief, welcome stretch in Bangkok with the return of Jan Bican. Known for treating streets, bodies and public space as his canvas, he brings new works that feel quietly confrontational without raising their voice. Light plays a central role, cutting through shadows and reflections, asking you to slow down and actually look. Bican’s pieces often sit between opposing ideas: exposure and privacy, intimacy and distance, softness and control. That tension gives the work its emotional charge. Seen far from its European context, the effect sharpens rather than softens. You notice how easily the themes travel, how little translation they need. It invites wandering, second glances and the occasional pause mid-step, which might be the point. January 3-28. Free. Vanich House Bangkok, 10.30am-6pm

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Pose with towering Momo and slime Rimuru at Muse Anime Festival's 17 photo zones

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Siam
Until Mar 29, 2026

Photograph: themagicrain

Bangkok welcomes 2026 with a knowing wink as Muse Anime Festival sets up at JAM SPACE, a familiar meeting point for pop culture devotees. This is less trade fair, more shared obsession. Fourteen anime titles spread across 17 photo zones turn fandom into a walk-through experience, complete with oversized sets and scenes designed for lingering rather than rushing. Expect towering inflatables of Momo and Okarun from DAN DA DAN plus Rimuru, the eternally cheerful slime, looming large for cameras. Beyond the visuals, shelves fill with officially licensed pieces and harder-to-find imports, tempting even the disciplined collector. Food gets its own moment too, thanks to a themed cafe riffing on SPY x FAMILY and That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime. January 10-March 29. Free. 4/F, MBK Centre, 11am-9pm

Measure yourself against narrow walls at this first Asian showing of Absalon's iconic structures

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Yaowarat
Until May 31, 2026

Photograph: Bangkok Kunsthalle

Questions about how we live often sit quietly until art nudges them forward. Bangkok Kunsthalle’s latest exhibition, Description Without Place, brings the uncompromising work of Absalon into focus, offering a rare chance to engage with an artist who treated space as a kind of personal test. Known for pushing against ideas of comfort, control and the limits of the body, Absalon’s practice feels as confrontational now as it did decades ago. For the first time in Asia, all six of his iconic Cells appear as full-scale replicas, carefully presented by curator Stefano Rabolli Pansera. Each structure asks visitors to step closer, measure themselves against narrow walls and unfamiliar proportions. The experience is stark but strangely intimate, encouraging reflection on how much room we really need, and what happens when that space is taken away. Until May 31 2026. Free. Bangkok Kunsthalle, 2pm-8pm

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Chase the Blues (every night)

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Until Apr 30, 2026

Photograph: Woodstock Hua Hin

If you should find yourself feeling all jazzed out, head over to Soi 88 for a cold beer instead. Woodstock Bar is a watering hole where you can experience another pillar of Americana roots music, the blues. Nightly jam sessions riffing on the classic 12-bar template are led by bar-owner and local guitar hero Ped Bluesman, with his band, The Blues Cats. Everynight. Free. Woodstock Bar, 4pm-midnight

Experience 81 works exploring invisible memories across three floors at Dib Bangkok's debut show

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Khlong Toei
Until Aug 3, 2026

Photograph: Dib Bangkok

(In)visible Presence opens Dib Bangkok with a quiet confidence. Think a painted gust of wind, music shaped by half-remembered summers and the soft trace of herbal medicine lingering longer than expected. The show asks how we hold on to what matters when it cannot be seen, while also nodding to the many people, some now gone, who helped turn this museum from idea to place. Drawn from a collection built across three decades and widened through fresh collaborations, the exhibition gathers 81 works by 40 contemporary artists, several new to Thailand. Sound, scent and light do much of the talking. Across three floors, everyday materials shift, memories blur and imagination fills the gaps. A special focus on Montien Boonma closes the journey, offering space for reflection, healing and a slower way of looking. December 21-August 3 2026. B150-700 via here. Dib Bangkok, 10am-6pm

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See where Thai photography heads next at EMERGE's triple exhibition supporting emerging artists

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Prawet
Until Feb 22, 2026

Photograph: MunMun Srinakarin

EMERGE returns for its fourth year, continuing a long-running effort to give new photography voices proper room to be seen. Launched in 2022, the project has already supported over 120 emerging artists, helping them step from classrooms and bedrooms towards galleries and wider audiences. This edition widens the frame with three connected exhibitions that hint at where Thai photography is heading next. An open call at BACC pop up invites artists aged 18-25, selected by figures who know the field well. The Editions at HOP Photo Gallery gathers standout thesis work from 2024-2025, full of risk, doubt and fresh perspective. Over at HOP CLUB, a zine showcase celebrates small publications as quiet records of the moment. December 20-February 22 2026. Free. 2/F, MunMun Srinakarin, 11am-7pm

Get lost in abstract cityscapes that refuse to stay still at Mirage

Things to do
Charoenkrung
Until Jan 18, 2026

Photograph: Asoke Aryapratheep

Asoke’s Mirage feels like a quiet continuation. Following Suggestions, the new works keep worrying at perception, memory and that soft space where certainty slips. Layers of colour drift across the surface, broken by half-seen structures and shapes that suggest buildings without committing to them. Everything appears provisional, as if caught mid-thought. You recognise a form, then doubt yourself a second later. What holds it together is the way the mind gets involved. Marks feel random but never careless, asking the viewer to finish the picture themselves. Paint and ink stack up in thin skins, creating scenes that hover between abstraction and something more familiar. Moving to a larger scale gives these works room to breathe. Standing in front of them feels like walking through a remembered place that refuses to stay still, intimate yet oddly unreachable. Until January 18 2026. Free. Supples Gallery, 11am-6pm

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The Abyss is Calling

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Yan Nawa
Until Jan 31, 2026

Photograph: Gallery VER

Gallery VER’s 20th anniversary lands with a show that feels a bit like opening an old photo album and finding the pages humming. Rirkrit Tiravanija, the gallery’s co-founder, takes on curating duties for The Abyss Is Calling, gathering 47 artists who have shaped its story. The result leans less on nostalgia and more on tuning into the echoes left by two decades of shared rooms, late-night installs and conversations that stayed long after closing time. More than 50 works span painting, sculpture, installation, video and fragments from the archive. Together, they form a kind of collective memory, mapping the relationships between artists, curators, collectors and visitors. Walking through it feels like catching whispers from the past, a reminder of how art spaces hold people as much as objects. Until January 31 2026. Free. Gallery VER, midday-6pm

Undo Planet

Things to do
Siam
Until Feb 22, 2026

Photograph: BACC

At this exhibition, the first section turns its attention to Korea’s Demilitarised Zone, a strip of land that has carried the weight of an unfinished war since the armistice paused the conflict in 1953. Spread across 248km, with two narrow bands flanking the Military Demarcation Line, it has remained largely untouched for about 70 years. The exhibition doesn’t retell history as much as reframe it, pairing archival echoes with scenes shaped by nature’s quiet resilience. With people kept out, the land has healed in its own stubborn way, giving rise to wetlands, wildflowers and animals that rarely appear elsewhere. What you get is a portrait of a place suspended between past and renewal, still holding its breath yet defiantly alive. Until February 22 2026. Free. 7/F, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, 10am-8pm

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.

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Things to do in Bangkok today

Events in Bangkok today

Play chess between moves on the dancefloor at Le Cafe des Stagiaires' playful social night

Experience Czech contemporary art as Jan Bican returns with light-driven works about privacy and distance

Pose with towering Momo and slime Rimuru at Muse Anime Festival's 17 photo zones

Measure yourself against narrow walls at this first Asian showing of Absalon's iconic structures

Chase the Blues (every night)

Experience 81 works exploring invisible memories across three floors at Dib Bangkok's debut show

See where Thai photography heads next at EMERGE's triple exhibition supporting emerging artists

Get lost in abstract cityscapes that refuse to stay still at Mirage

The Abyss is Calling

Undo Planet

Movies now showing

Black Widow

Malignant

A Quiet Place Part II

Supernova

No Time to Die

The Suicide Squad

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Fast & Furious 9

Free Guy

Suicide Forest Village