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

Created with BEM and supported by the Tourism Authority of Thailand, The Furryways turns Park Paragon into a make-believe subway station filled with oversized sculptures, tactile installations and plenty of chances to touch, hug and interact. Familiar characters including Mushkin, Rosado, Corkin, Gally and Odey pop up around platforms and train-inspired spaces, making this less a walk-through show than a soft, strange little world to linger in. Bangkok is the first stop before the exhibition travels to other cities across Asia. July 4-19. Free entry. Park Paragon, Siam Paragon. 10.30am-9pm

Hua Takhe Old Market spends the month in bloom as Rakdok Floral Weeks 2026 returns under the theme ‘Flower to Spread Smiles’. The festival winds through weathered shophouses, wooden walkways and quiet corners of the canalside neighbourhood. What began as a flower-arranging showcase in 2020 has grown into a community-wide exhibition designed to be wandered through rather than viewed from a distance. Twenty floral works by artists, local residents and competition winners tell their own stories while casting fresh light on one of Bangkok’s most characterful old markets. July 4-August 2. Free entry. Hua Takhe Old Market. 10am-6pm

In home, Chopper Pipatpong Sripeng looks at the space between who we hope to become and who we are when certainty starts to slip. Presented at GalileOasis, the solo exhibition gathers paintings shaped by love, shame, hope, fear and brief moments of calm, tracing the small negotiations that make up everyday life. Rather than chasing tidy answers, Chopper pays attention to acts of acceptance that slowly reshape us, suggesting home is less a destination than something we keep building over time. July 4-August 3. Free entry. GalileOasis. 9am-7pm

Yaowarat welcomes the Bangkok debut of Filipino artist and sculptor Jinggoy Buensuceso with Cosmic Bloom, an immersive solo exhibition taking over Luenrit. Known as one of the Philippines’ leading contemporary sculptors, Buensuceso builds large-scale installations from industrial materials, shaping them through an origami-inspired visual language that explores motion, tension and constant change. Spread across multiple levels, Cosmic Bloom follows a journey of entry, expansion and release. Here, sculpture becomes an environment to move through rather than something viewed from a distance. The result is a striking exploration of perception, consciousness and our place within the wider universe. June 4-July 28. Free entry. Luenrit Yaowarat. 9am-5pm

As daylight fades, Samyan Mitrtown marks the fifth edition of its Lantern Art Festival with a new collection of glowing installations across the plaza. This year’s theme, ‘The Luminous Bloom’, draws on flowers in bloom, using light, colour and large-scale lantern works to transform one of Bangkok’s busiest public spaces after dark. By placing art in the path of commuters, students and evening strollers rather than behind gallery doors, the free festival turns an everyday walk through Samyan into an easy art stop and photo opportunity. July 17-31. Free entry. Samyan Mitrtown. 10am-10pm

Sleepless nights leave their mark, and HOMMES.HOM chooses not to tidy them up. Pillow, the debut solo exhibition by Sittha Jantharawong, draws on insomnia, anxiety and the small-hour routines that come with them, from staring at the ceiling to reaching for a bottle of sleeping pills on the bedside table. A former advertising creative, the artist brings a sharp eye for everyday behaviour to work that quietly examines emotions people rarely say out loud. Presented as part of MMADness is Calling, the exhibition asks whether accepting our struggles is the first step towards living with them. July 9-August 23. Free entry. MMAD Gallery 1, MunMun Srinakarin (Seacon Square). 10.30am-7pm

Printmaking takes centre stage at the Maxnifier VI International Print Exhibition, bringing together artists from every continent for a wide-ranging survey of the medium. Woodcut, etching and lithography sit alongside contemporary techniques, showing how ink, paper and printing plates continue to shape personal stories and printing plates continue to carry personal stories and cultural identities. Each piece is presented as an original work rather than a reproduction, putting the precision, labour  and experimentation of the process firmly in view. It is also a rare chance to see artists from very different backgrounds push the same medium in strikingly different directions. Until August 15. Free entry. MMAD MunMun Srinakarin. 10.30am-7pm

Summer truffles may not have the cult status of their winter cousins, but they still bring that earthy, unmistakable hit. Akira Back Bangkok is making the most of the season with four limited dishes built around truffles sourced from the French Alps and Italy. The menu includes the restaurant's signature AB Truffle mushroom pizza, seared Hokkaido scallop with miso cream butter, Kagoshima A5 ribeye with truffle beef jus, and a black truffle macaron to finish. Available at lunch and dinner, it is a tidy excuse to add a little more truffle to the season. Available until August 31. From B390++ per dish. Akira Back Bangkok, Bangkok Marriott Marquis Queen’s Park, Sukhumvit Road

An entire Akha house now stands in the middle of Bangkok, carefully dismantled from a village in northern Thailand and rebuilt piece by piece inside an art gallery. Roof panels, woven bedding, timber floors and weathered household objects all carry marks of the people who once lived among them, quietly tracing a way of life that grows more fragile with each passing generation. The Akha are an Indigenous ethnic group whose communities are spread across the mountains of northern Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and southern China, known for their intricate textiles, spiritual rituals and deep connection to land and ancestry. In recent decades, migration, tourism and rapid development have reshaped many of those traditions. Through memory, craftsmanship and personal histories, The Preservation of Fire by Busui Ajaw keeps those stories alive a little longer. May 15-November 1. Free entry. Bangkok Kunsthalle. 2pm-8pm