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

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

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

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

Song Wat turns playful without losing its sense of history. For Bangkok Design Week, the district becomes a walkable board game, stretching across streets that once carried trade, gossip and daily deals. Building on the earlier manhole cover project, this new chapter invites visitors to play merchant, navigating landmarks and stories that shaped the neighbourhood’s working life. Set along Song Wat Road at Tuk Khaek, Merchants of Song Wat reimagines the area as a network of warehouses and shops. Players move as caravans, trading goods, striking bargains with local businesses and slowly building their own corner of commerce. The rules stay friendly, the visuals clear, drawing from familiar colours and signs around the area.    Until February. Free. Song Wat, 2pm-8pm on weekdays and 1pm-7pm on weekends.

Thai illustrator Lili Tae, also known as Phindita Techamongkhalaphiwat, presents a solo exhibition curated by Jason Yang that feels like stepping through shifting layers of memory, dream and landscape. Her digital paintings grow from quiet encounters with forests, wandering paths and unexpected meetings with flora and fauna, reshaped through a deeply personal lens. Soft brushwork meets luminous colour, allowing realism to brush against fantasy and moments of gentle surrealism without losing emotional clarity. Figures appear suspended between waking life and subconscious reflection, suggesting stories half remembered rather than fully explained. Natural textures echo skin, water, leaves and shifting weather, giving each image a tactile presence despite its digital form. Viewers wander through scenes that feel intimate yet expansive, reflecting how imagination reshapes daily observation without ever fully separating from lived experience.   Until March 16. Free. GalileOasis Gallery, 9am-8pm

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

Hands still matter, even now. At Rosewood Bangkok, Made in Thai-Hands arrives through a collaboration with Play Art House, offering a thoughtful look at living craft traditions shaped by patience rather than speed. Curated by independent artist Seada Samdao, the exhibition brings together 10 Thai artists working between inherited techniques and contemporary thinking, without treating either as fixed. Moving through the space feels like travelling across different landscapes, guided by texture, material and touch. Threads hold hours of quiet labour, pigment settles through instinct and surfaces reveal years of repetition. Nothing rushes for attention. Instead, each work carries the weight of human effort and the calm confidence that comes from knowing a process deeply. While the rhythms of making remain central, the voices feel current, led by a generation carrying tradition forward with clarity rather than reverence. Craft here feels alive, personal and quietly defiant.   Until March 20. Free. G/F, Rosewood Bangkok, 9am-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