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

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

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

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

Dogs rule the garden at this gloriously over the top gathering for Bangkok’s most social pups. The agility kit stands ready for high speed laps, while shaded corners invite you to trade training tales with fellow owners. A live band hums away nearby and every few steps feels suspiciously photogenic. Familiar faces pad through the crowd. Jay Dice arrives with his companion Choice, while mini favourites Mootoo and Metoo pose with Chang the cat and Bobby the capybara. Pet Omakase plates up tailored dishes, and Therapy Dog Thailand hosts a calm space for overstimulated tails. Add portraits from Dogue Studio and a showcase of cover star winners, and you have a pet party that takes itself just seriously enough.   February 28-March 1. Free. Paw Yard, 11am-8pm

Takuya Mitani lingers on that uneasy line between sweetness and the stranger instincts we prefer to keep tucked away. The starting point is a painting titled Tiny tiny Icarusy icarusia, a sideways nod to the Greek myth of Icarus. Here, the boy does not plummet in disgrace. Instead, he slips back into a kind of infantile regression, retreating from adult expectation towards something softer. The wax wings melt, yet it reads less as punishment, more as surrender, a drifting off rather than a crash. Six further canvases expand the idea. Girls appear adorned with ram horns, crocodile tails, artificial wings, each accessory doubling as armour. Beneath the decorative calm sits a flicker of wildness. The myth feels present tense, still reshaping itself before our eyes.   Until March 22. Free. Joyman Gallery, 11am-6pm

A stretch of Bangkok pavement turns painterly this weekend as L'On Gallery gathers Thai and international creators for live street sessions. Easels line the road, brushes move in real time and conversations unfold as naturally as the layers of colour building on canvas. You can linger, ask about a technique, then pick up a collectible piece or browse crafts and local specialities without feeling hurried. Music drifts from jazz to pop, soul and folk, softening the city’s edges. This edition carries extra weight as photographer artists present work reflecting on the conflict in Thailand’s three southern border provinces. A portion of proceeds supports the Children's Hospital Foundation and Soi Dog Foundation, so your Saturday quietly gives back while you talk art on the curb.   February 28-March 1. Free Lan Luang Road to Chakkraphatdiphong Intersection, 4pm-10pm

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