Our picks for the best things to do in Bangkok this weekend

Transport welcomes 2026 with its usual lack of restraint, favouring volume, sweat and a sense that tomorrow can wait. The night pulls together a line up that feels deliberately scattered, with Eternal Love, Anacalypto, Sol, Kornlee, Jeto, An!ka and a familiar resident presence anchoring the room. Friends fly in from different corners, records get shared like secrets and the floor fills before anyone thinks to check the time. What makes this party work isn’t scale or spectacle but trust. Trust in the selectors to read the room. Trust in the crowd to stay curious. Trust that things don’t need smoothing out to feel good. Expect moments of sweetness, sudden left turns and that particular Transport feeling where leaving early seems almost rude. It’s messy in the best way, held together by sound and stubborn joy. February 28. B1,000-1,200 via here. ChangChui, midday-2am

Clear your weekend and call your friends. The Looker Community gathers its favourite names under one roof for a market that feels more like a reunion than a retail affair. Expect a tightly edited mix of fashion, vintage gems, offbeat design pieces and handmade crafts, alongside the sort of rare finds that prompt quiet triumph. Browsing happens at an easy pace and, yes, pets are welcome, so four-legged companions can weave between stalls as happily as their owners. As evening edges closer, the mood shifts. Dudesweet, Quay Records, Rattanagosound and Tapejam join a roster of familiar DJs, stretching the gathering well past sundown and keeping the Looker crowd exactly where it wants to be.   February 27-28. B150 at the door. Old Smoke Riverside, 5pm-midnight

Dr Mahmoud Safadi presents a solo exhibition that reads like pages from a lived diary. For him, painting goes beyond lines, forms and colour. Each canvas carries fragments of personal history alongside the wider story of the Palestinian people, holding endurance, memory, loss and a stubborn strain of hope in careful balance. You sense that every mark arrives with weight behind it. The opening takes place on Saturday February 28 at 6.30pm, with refreshments shared among guests and live music setting a reflective tone. Designer Dimas Angkling joins musician Issac Aesili for the evening, adding another layer of feeling to work that already speaks quietly yet firmly for itself.   February 28-March 14. Free. Bohemian Art Space, 10am-5pm

Sweating through rails of secondhand denim is hardly a rite of passage anyone asks for. This market flips the script, restoring actual cool to vintage hunting with a fully air-conditioned set up in the middle of the city. Set inside Kamphaeng Phet MRT, it’s a well-kept secret. More than 70 carefully chosen vendors line the space, stacked with throwback dresses, battered boots, sharp tailoring and odd little treasures you did not know you needed. A student-friendly corner keeps prices sensible without sacrificing taste. Between browsing, a small stage hosts emerging singers and local bands, giving the whole affair the easy charm of a neighbourhood gathering, only better dressed and blissfully climate controlled.   February 27-March 1. Free. Kamphaeng Phet MRT, 11am-9pm

An evening devoted to Haruomi Hosono traces the blueprint of modern Japanese sound. From pastoral folk to breezy pop, tropical flourishes to ambient electronics, his catalogue refuses to sit still. He helps usher synthesiser culture into Japan, shifting the landscape for everyone who follows. The session also tips its hat to Yukihiro Takahashi and Ryuichi Sakamoto, alongside cuts from Yellow Magic Orchestra, mapping how their ideas ripple across global pop and experimental scenes. Every track spins on vinyl through No Spice Audio’s Mandrem speakers, built in the spirit of the classic Altec A7. The sound lands warm and full-bodied, exactly as those early pressings intend, inviting you to settle in and really listen. February 28. Free. Register via here. STILL House, 2pm-6pm

This exhibition asks a gentle but stubborn question: what if the profound sits quietly on your kitchen table. It suggests discovery has less to do with novelty and more to do with attention, the kind that spots a mountain hidden behind a single strand of hair. What rests within reach often escapes notice. Awareness forms through living, watching, reflecting and sensing how time nudges everything along. The room feels hushed, yet movement carries on through deliberate brushstrokes and thin washes of layered pigment. Still-life motifs hold tension between permanence and erosion, solidity and fragility, like tongue against teeth. Each element leans on its opposite. The painterly language distils small daily fragments, revealing a world in steady transformation, including the restless terrain of the mind.   Until March 8. Free. KYLA Gallery, 3pm-midnight

Pansan Klongdee builds his latest installation around a car that refuses to be defined. Activated through sound and live performance, the work opens with a BMW E34 salvaged from a junkyard off Rama II, its body intact, its future already sealed. The vehicle sits in a kind of purgatory: no longer fully machine, not yet scrap metal. That suspended condition shapes the entire enquiry. Speakers hum, performers circle, gestures repeat as if rehearsing a farewell. Metal becomes witness rather than object. The piece asks how we acknowledge things once their function fades, how we stage rituals for non-human lives and how release sometimes looks less like disappearance and more like a quiet change of state.   Until March 15. Free. Bangkok Kunsthalle, 2pm-8pm

STILL House stands quietly among the glass towers of Asoke, a restored heritage home that favours memory over gloss. Its latest chapter exhibition unfolds through a collaboration between NORSE Republics and &Tradition, a name long associated with Danish craft and considered modernism. Rooms shift from domestic familiarity to thoughtful installation. Chairs, lamps and objects sit not as showroom pieces but as prompts for touch and contemplation. Soft scent lingers, sound hums gently, small tastings appear during workshops that encourage slowing down. The exhibition frames design as lived experience rather than static display, offering a brief retreat from the city’s insistence on speed without losing sight of its context.   Until April 15. Free. STILL House, 10am-7pm

Rasmee Isan Soul has a voice that carries the dust of rice fields and the smokey hush of a late night bar in equal measure. She threads luk thung and mor lam through soul and jazz, folding Western instruments around traditional sounds without fuss. Singing in Isan dialect and Khmer, she moves between worlds with ease, having already taken that sound as far as France. For this evening, she strips things back for an acoustic set alongside Pakawat Tunsakun of the Kai Jo Brothers on keys. The setting at Payaq Gallery Cafe and Bar, a well loved grandmother’s house, walls crowded with art. Parking is scarce, so best to grab a ride and wander down the alley, ready to listen properly. February 28. B666 via here. Payaq Gallery Cafe and Bar, 7pm

Bangkok’s latest maker gathering feels like stepping inside a workshop where the future is assembled by hand. A new wave of creators turn raw materials, wires and code into curious machines, refusing to wait politely for tomorrow. The space hums with invention and the occasional whir of something that might or might not behave. Homemade battle robots clash in a metal-on-metal showdown, augmented reality worlds flicker across your phone and artificial intelligence demos that answer back with unsettling confidence. An interactive playground invites adults to forget dignity, while a cardboard parade encourages you to strap on monster armour and march at dusk. Art toy designers reveal their process, and wildly imaginative vehicles roll past, proof that creativity, when fuelled properly, can actually move.   February 28-March 1. Free. ChangChui, 1pm-7pm