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

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

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

Bangkok’s performing arts scene gets its moment this year with a festival dedicated to giving artists space to create, experiment and share. For professionals and newcomers alike, the stage becomes a playground where ideas meet skill, and every performance is a chance to connect with an audience hungry for something fresh. Over 70 shows from across Thailand span genres from drama, dance and musical theatre to mime, puppet shows and stage readings. Stand-up, visual theatre and multimedia experiments push boundaries, making this festival less about schedules and more about the thrill of watching something live, surprising and utterly alive. Until November 23. Free. TK Park, BACC, Sky Garden at Samyam Mitrtown 

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

Tsai Kuen-Lin's solo exhibition does something radical: it makes rivers audible. During his residency, the artist submerged recording equipment beneath the Chao Phraya River, Ping River and Ang Kaew Lake, capturing underwater symphonies most of us will never hear. Mae Nam – Mother Water – treats these recordings as living archives rather than ambient noise. What makes this particularly compelling is his material shift: gone are the PVC pipes from earlier outdoor works, replaced now with clay and ceramics embedded with traces from those exact recording sites. Sound becomes tangible; earth meets liquid. It's an exhibition that asks you to reconsider water not as backdrop but as protagonist, carrying memories of communities who've shaped and been shaped by its currents. Wind, earth, water, fire – all four elements collapsed onto gallery walls, whispering stories we've forgotten how to hear. Until January 10. Free. SAC Gallery, 11am-6pm

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

Malee Naree, also known as Watcharakoranan Panya, paints like she’s decoding human contradiction. In her exhibition In Layers, each piece slips between tenderness and tenacity, dream and daylight, revealing how the human spirit is stitched together with both grit and grace. The closing work, I Am a Robot, plays with the edges of identity, asking what happens when technology starts to mimic our emotions a little too well. Yet beneath the metallic glint lies something deeply human. Until November 30. Free. Blacklist Gallery, 10am-6pm

Artist LOLAY, also known as Thaweesak Srithongdee, returns with a solo exhibition layered and unexpected as one of his favourite muses – Thai noodle salad. The humble street dish, a lively mix of Thai and Chinese influences, becomes his metaphor for modern life: tangled, flavourful and inseparable from the swirl of local and global culture. His paintings play with the familiar and the absurd, using humour to question how we absorb and reflect the world around us. Each work feels like a snapshot of everyday encounters stitched with personal memories, friendships and soundtracks that colour his days. Playful yet quietly sharp, LOLAY’s art reminds you that life’s complexity doesn’t always need unravelling, sometimes it’s best savoured as it is. Until November 23. Free. Fazal Building, 11am-7pm

Japanese street artist Aruta Soup makes his significant Thai solo debut with work that refuses to take itself too seriously – a rarity in contemporary art spaces that often mistake solemnity for depth. His paintings marry free-flowing linework with colours that practically vibrate off the canvas, capturing a specific kind of joyful energy that feels increasingly difficult to manufacture. At the centre sits ‘ZERO,’ his bandaged rabbit character who's become something of a mascot for optimism despite looking like he's recently survived something unfortunate. The rabbit represents fresh starts and hope, which sounds almost painfully earnest until you see how Aruta Soup renders it: with enough playfulness to undercut any potential schmaltz. It's street art that's migrated indoors without losing its original spirit – still accessible, still speaking to connection rather than exclusion. November 8-December 21. Free. Maison JE Bangkok, 11am-7pm

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