Things to do in Bangkok today

Premium beef collaborations are hardly rare, but few arrive with the reputation of Mayura Station. The Australian producer, known for its marbled Wagyu, has returned to Riva del Fiume for a limited menu that pairs Italian cooking with some of Australia’s most sought-after beef. Dishes range from handmade pasta and seafood starters to charcoal-grilled Wagyu cuts and a standout course inspired by Thai boat noodles. The collaboration works because it avoids feeling like a simple showcase of luxury ingredients. Instead, it explores how Australian beef can fit naturally within the restaurant's Italian identity. Until June 18. Riva del Fiume Ristorante, Four Seasons Hotel Bangkok at Chao Phraya River

By this point in the year, most of us have spent far too much time staring at screens. Art in the PARQ offers a welcome excuse to step away for a while. Organised by The PARQ Life and Groundcontrol, the ten-day festival fills the mixed-use development with installations, live music, workshops and conversations centred on rest and emotional wellbeing. Artist collective Eyedropper Fill creates a landscape of shifting light and ambient sound, while works by Yibso Ariyaganta sit alongside a free rock-painting activity for anyone craving a quieter moment. After office hours, live painting from Blue Dean and laid-back sets by GYPSHA take over. Weekends add an art market, wellbeing talks, food stalls and activities for four-legged companions. Jun 12-21. Free entry. The PARQ Life. 11am-8pm

Climate change usually arrives as statistics, policy papers and increasingly grim news alerts. The Changing Climate, Changing Lives (CCCL) Film Festival prefers a more human approach. Returning this June, the annual event hands the mic to filmmakers, artists and storytellers charting how environmental shifts shape everyday experiences, from eroding shorelines and harsher weather patterns to quieter transformations unfolding across neighbourhoods. The programme spans fiction, animation and experimental works from emerging voices around the world, many spotlighting stories that rarely reach wider audiences. Some films wrestle with loss and uncertainty, while others focus on resilience, collective action and the people finding inventive ways to adapt as the world changes around them. June 12-21. Free entry, though seats must be reserved in advance here. Lido Connect and The Jim Thompson Art Center.

At Avani Ratchada Bangkok, The City Is Never One Color turns the hotel’s public spaces into a photographic portrait of the neighbourhood, tracing stories of community, individuality and belonging through the colours woven across daily life. Created with Dr. Prachaya Piemkaroon and first-year students from Srinakharinwirot University’s College of Social Communication Innovation, the exhibition gathers more than 40 images across three chapters: When Colors Coexist, Quiet Colors and Balance. Together, they frame familiar streets, fleeting moments and shared spaces from fresh angles, revealing a district shaped not by one perspective, but by many. June 8-30. Free entry. Avani Ratchada Bangkok. All day.

Just in time for Pride Month, Thai artist Burin Punma opens the gates to BR Fruity Island, a colourful imagined world where identity comes without labels and self-expression takes centre stage. Spanning paintings, sculptures and a new BRlover merchandise collection, the exhibition introduces a cast of playful characters including the BRgoddess and the fruit-born BRboys who inhabit this curious paradise. At the heart of the project is the idea that everyone carries their own Fruiter, a symbol of individuality, happiness and personal energy. Bright, whimsical and unapologetically queer, it celebrates freedom in all its forms. May 30-June 29. Free entry. GalileOasis Gallery. 9am-8pm

The nude rarely escapes traditional ideas about gender, but Thawatchai Somkong’s MISS sets out to redraw that picture. Focusing on trans women as its central subjects, the exhibition presents portraits and figurative paintings that celebrate lives often left out of mainstream art history. The show arrives as conversations around gender identity continue to evolve across Thailand, even after the country’s recent progress on marriage equality. Working across realism, pop art and cubist influences, Somkong combines bold colour with richly textured surfaces, using each canvas to explore visibility, dignity and the right to define oneself on one's own terms. June 8-28. Free entry. Blacklist Gallery and Matdot Gallery. 10am-6pm

Nova Contemporary celebrates its tenth anniversary with Tracing, a solo exhibition by Kawita Vatanajyankur that also marks a decade of collaboration between the gallery and one of Thailand’s most internationally recognised artists. Bringing together key video-performance works from across her career, the show traces recurring themes of labour, authority and the pressures of capitalist systems through the artist’s physically demanding practice. Newer works use artificial intelligence to examine family history, loss and remembrance. Presented alongside her major solo exhibition at Yuz Museum Shanghai, Tracing offers a compelling overview of an artist who keeps using the body as both subject and battleground. June 6-July 25. Free entry. Nova Contemporary. 11am-7pm

Bangkok-based artist and floral designer Sakul Intakul turns to shelter, reflection and belonging in Nest: Sanctuary of the Soul. Using the nest as a symbol of both vulnerability and protection, the exhibition presents sculptural works that draw from nature, craftsmanship and personal contemplation. Best known for his floral installations, Sakul opens a new chapter here, working with space, form and texture on a larger scale. Traditional materials sit alongside contemporary structures, creating quiet environments that invite visitors to slow down, look closely and recover a little stillness. May 16-June 28. Free entry. La Lanta Fine Art, River City Bangkok. 10am-8pm

Not all monsters lurk under the bed. Some stay tucked away in old memories, long after the moment has passed. Museum of Monsters explores the parts of ourselves we would rather keep hidden, using bones as traces of past mistakes, heartbreaks and difficult experiences that never quite disappear. Presented as fragments of personal evidence, the works examine how buried memories shape who we become. Less a haunted house than quiet self-reflection, the show asks visitors to confront their imperfections and make peace with the creatures they carry around. May 8-June 21. Free entry. RCB Galleria 5, River City Bangkok. 10am-8pm

Bangkok Kunsthalle hands over its cavernous industrial halls to Spirits Melt to Flesh, a striking group exhibition bringing together eight Asian artists under the curatorial direction of Sam I-shan. Working across moving image, sound, sculpture and photography, the artists  respond directly to the building’s rough architecture and layered history. Light flickers across concrete, voices drift through shadowy corners and small encounters appear around every turn. Rather than relying only on what the eye can catch, the show asks visitors to listen, feel and move through the former warehouse as an experience, not just an exhibition. June 5-October 4. Free entry. Bangkok Kunsthalle. 2pm-8pm