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

Sundays start with brunch at Penthouse Bar + Grill

Things to do
Phloen Chit
Until Nov 12, 2025

Photograph: Penthouse Bar + Grill

Sundays are made for lingering over good food, great music and even better company. At the Penthouse Sunday Brunch at Penthouse Bar + Grill, all three come together in one deliciously stylish package. Every Sunday, indulge in a curated menu starting with appetisers such as tiger prawns, fine de claire oysters and house-smoked Tasmanian salmon. The main courses offer a farm-to-table carving experience, featuring melt-in-your-mouth Australian Wagyu picanha roast beef, herb-crusted lamb chops from New Zealand’s Lumina Farms, Porchetta with apple-miso sauce from Thailand’s Sloane’s Farm and locally sourced roasted chicken from Klong Phai Farm. And just when you think it’s over, a dessert station swoops in to deliver the sweet finale. Starts at B3,200. Reserve via here. Penthouse Bar + Grill, Park Hyatt Bangkok, midday-3pm.

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The Character Club

Things to do
Silom
Until Dec 7, 2025

Photograph: KYLA Gallery

KYLA Gallery's latest gathering brings together five artists who've each built entire universes around their original characters. The Character Club transforms the gallery space into a proper social hangout for creations that exist somewhere between cartoon boldness, quirky personality studies and those dreamlike companions who feel weirdly familiar even though you've definitely never met them before. Each artist speaks through their own visual language and storytelling approach, creating what's essentially a lively lounge filled with humour, nostalgia and genuine wonder. It's playful, pop-culture-soaked and refreshingly unpretentious about celebrating imagination in all its human (and decidedly not-so-human) forms. Every character here carries their own backstory, waiting for you to wander over and strike up a conversation. November 7-December 7. Free. KYLA Gallery, 3pm-midnight

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Read Me

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Bang Phlat
Until Nov 16, 2025

Photograph: Joyman Gallery

P.S. Publishing has spent the past decade quietly carving out space for women writers to explore relationships through their own voices and styles. Now this compact publisher is throwing open its doors with an exhibition celebrating nearly 100 books that prove small format doesn't mean small impact. The event packs in proper activities beyond browsing. Talk sessions turn readers and writers from strangers passing by each other on shelves to actual people having honest conversations about love, heartbreak and everything messily in between. Speed Dating follows, pairing you with seven different authors for quick-fire exchanges. Fancy making something? The DIY Book station lets you nick a preface, paragraph and With love and… closing line from various P.S. titles to create your own tiny publication. Meanwhile, Sis Market flips the script with writers and illustrators playing vendors whilst readers shop their handmade creations. Upstairs, Something Blue Library hosts workshops and reading sessions for anyone craving a quieter moment amongst kindred book lovers. November 7-16. Free. Kinjai Contemporary, 11am-9pm

Golden Teardrop

Things to do
Chatuchak
Until Feb 15, 2026

Photograph: MOCA Bangkok

Arin Rungjang's solo project starts with Thong Yod – those traditional Thai golden drops – and spins them through sculpture and film until they become something altogether more questioning. What begins as dessert transforms into a meditation on how we remember, how culture shifts and how history's so-called truths often deserve a proper interrogation. Golden teardrops hang suspended like falling rain throughout the exhibition, whilst stories from distant lands flow together in ways that blur boundaries between past and present. It's essentially about the fluidity of narrative – how memories from different eras can suddenly converge and reshape our understanding of what actually happened. Rungjang's work asks you to reconsider the weight of time itself, using something as humble as a sweet treat to unlock bigger questions about cultural inheritance and collective memory. Until February 15, 2026. B300 at the door. MOCA Bangkok, 10am-6pm

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Smile by Order

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Rattanakosin
Until Nov 30, 2025

Photograph: Joyman Gallery

Sauce's latest exhibition picks apart the performance we all put on daily – that carefully curated smile, the ‘good person’ act we maintain to meet societal expectations, the emotional mask we wear because power structures demand it. His works treat the smile not as genuine happiness but as a shield concealing suffocated feelings and identities crushed by systems that control both body and mind. Building on his 2023 solo show Exoskeleton, which examined the concept of Body under Body – essentially the shell encasing your true self – this series pushes further. What happens when orchestrated expression becomes so automatic you forget what's real? When politeness transforms from choice to survival mechanism? Sauce's pieces force you to confront how we've all become masters at performing emotions on command, smiling through gritted teeth whilst our actual selves remain buried beneath layers of social conditioning. Uncomfortable viewing, perhaps, but bracingly honest. Until November 30. Free. Joyman Gallery, 11am-6pm

I Like A Bit of Trouble

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Ari
Until Dec 27, 2025

Photograph: KICH Ari Space

Pnk.ff's second solo exhibition celebrates everything we usually try to sweep under the rug – the fumbles, the messes, the moments when life doesn't quite go to plan. Rather than hiding these beautifully awkward bits of being human, the artist drags them out and gives them proper gallery treatment. What you'll find here are personal, clumsy snapshots transformed through playful and humorous artworks that feel refreshingly honest. It's essentially an invitation to laugh at your own stumbles whilst recognizing that these wonky moments are what make ordinary stories genuinely memorable. Because let's be real, some days simply refuse to go smoothly, and often it's precisely those off-kilter experiences that stick with us longest. Until December 27. Free. KICH Ari Space, midday-7pm

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Rao Wat II

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Phloen Chit
Until Jan 11, 2026

Photograph: FYI Bangkok

PLAY art house and Rosewood Bangkok have teamed up for their first artistic collaboration, shining a spotlight on Song Wat Road through the eyes of local creators. This exhibition peels back the layers of one of the city's most storied neighbourhoods, where century-old shophouses sit alongside slick new cafes. It brings together artists working across different styles and media, each capturing the peculiar magic of this never-sleeping street. You'll find pieces inspired by everything from the cracks in ancient tiles to chance encounters outside family-run businesses that have been serving the same customers for generations. It's essentially a love letter to Song Wat Road's beautiful contradictions – the way trendy cocktail bars nestle beside traditional Chinese medicine shops, and how morning market chaos gives way to evening temple rituals. Proper neighbourhood storytelling at its finest. Until January 11, 2026. 3/F, Rosewood Bangkok, The Gallery, 9am-9pm

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PATH2 Something to Continue Counting

Things to do
Yaowarat
Until Nov 23, 2025

Photograph: PLAY art house

This collection captures those fleeting moments where human happiness lives on through art, preserving the beautiful times we're always trying to hold onto. The works here blend a fascination with geometrical forms, reflecting an ideal of abstract balance that feels genuinely alive and constantly shifting. Everything moves with time yet somehow maintains this perfect harmony through sheer simplicity. It's like stepping through a portal where your thoughts can roam pure and liberated, drifting alongside creativity without constraint. What makes this series special is how it translates those intangible feelings – the ones you can't quite put your finger on but know are precious – through clean lines and calculated shapes that still manage to feel wonderfully spontaneous and unbound. Until November 23. Free. PLAY art house, 10am-5pm

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Graffiti Social Club

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Yaowarat
Until Jan 4, 2026

Photograph: River City Bangkok

Graffiti Social Club started as a Taiwanese gathering back in 2019 and has now made its way to Thailand for the first time. Founded by curator REACH, this isn't your average street art showcase – it's a proper celebration of how graffiti has grown from underground rebellion to a legitimate global art movement. Over the past six years, the platform has popped up in major museums and galleries across Taiwan, giving local spray-can wielders a chance to rub shoulders with the international scene. This Thailand debut brings together 12 acclaimed artists from Taiwan, Japan, the United States, Europe and, naturally, Thailand itself. Until January 4, 2026. Free. River City Bangkok, 10am-8pm

Find one hand measuring whilst the other improvises across graphite, charcoal and watercolour explorations

Things to do
Rattanakosin
Until Nov 30, 2025

Photograph: Matdot Gallery

Santiago Zarzosa's exhibition tackles gravity and energy through abstracts that actually earn the term. His large-scale paintings feature poured pigment cascading downwards, balancing fluidity against density whilst spontaneity wrestles with control. He reads these collisions as metaphors for masculine and feminine forces: opposing, attracting, completing each other without requiring resolution. Meanwhile, his Geometrical Explorations series shifts register entirely. Here, graphite, charcoal and watercolour create delicate frameworks where ruler-drawn precision meets improvisational gesture. One hand measures; the other improvises. The resulting pieces map internal landscapes rather than external ones, charting where calculated thought and instinct meet without either dominating. It's work that resists easy categorisation, which feels appropriate for an artist examining dualities. Call it philosophy rendered in pigment, or just call it unusually thoughtful painting that doesn't apologise for its ambitions. Until November 30. Free. Matdot Gallery, 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.