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

sits firmly in the category of places you keep having to return to. But this time, it feels different. The concept leans on the ocean after dark, when sunlight disappears and whole ecosystems carry on unseen. You wander through shifting light, sometimes above the waterline, sometimes beneath it, with bioluminescent creatures flickering softly around you. Details keep catching your eye. A neon wall answers your touch with imagined marine life. Seahorses glow under tinted light, rainforest corners bloom with luminous flora, and a quiet full moon hangs over goldfish. In the shark tunnel, silver ripples mimic night tides, while Gentoo penguins stand beneath drifting northern lights. Even the familiar route feels refreshed, with a small stamp trail guiding the way. Until September 20. Starts at B449 via here. SEA LIFE Bangkok

It centres on palimpsest, where time never sits neatly in place. Davisi Boontham works with orihon sketchbooks, drawing loosely across each page before folding them back on themselves. Images that once stay apart now meet, overlap, and shift, forming narratives that refuse a single viewpoint. Past and present sit side by side, not quite settled, carrying traces that stretch across years. The city appears in fragments, remembered and reworked, never entirely whole. What begins within the folds soon exceeds them. Personal histories slip through the paper, shaped by attachment and a quiet sense of longing.  Until April 19. Free. PLAY art house, 10am-5pm

Peakkyboo’s solo show follows Booky, her hooded, ghost-like figure, drifting through memory with a quiet insistence. Booky never quite arrives anywhere, instead circling moments that feel close enough to touch yet remain out of reach. This time, the character settles by Swan Lake, tucked deep within a forest where people take the form of swans, not by force but by choice. The shift matters. The familiar ballet reference softens, turning from fate to intention, from loss to a kind of staying. Paintings lean heavily on greens and blues, brushed quickly, almost instinctively, as if feeling leads and technique follows. Some scenes blur behind a misted surface, like recollections half-remembered. Until April 21. Free. m Galleria 2, River City Bangkok, 10am-7pm

‘Preserve, Maintain, and Extend’ sounds almost instructional, yet the White Elephant Art Competition treats it as an open question. Artists answer in their own language, moving freely across form and surface. Among the works that linger, Branches of the Era by Theerapol Seesang carries a steady gravity, while Doi Ang Khang by Boonmee Saengkham leans closer to memory and place. Recognition matters, but it never overwhelms the wider conversation. Each year, this show marks a subtle shift, where technique evolves and ideas stretch, leaving visitors with something to sit with long after. Until May 17. Free. Bangkok Art & Culture Centre, 10am-8pm

(In)visible Presence opens Dib Bangkok with a quiet confidence. Think a painted gust of wind, music shaped by half-remembered summers and the soft trace of herbal medicine lingering longer than expected. The show asks how we hold on to what matters when it cannot be seen, while also nodding to the many people, some now gone, who helped turn this museum from idea to place. Drawn from a collection built across three decades and widened through fresh collaborations, the exhibition gathers 81 works by 40 contemporary artists, several new to Thailand. Sound, scent and light do much of the talking. Across three floors, everyday materials shift, memories blur and imagination fills the gaps. A special focus on Montien Boonma closes the journey, offering space for reflection, healing and a slower way of looking. December 21-August 3 2026. B150-700 via here. Dib Bangkok, 10am-6pm

Grey rarely settles comfortably within beauty. It lingers between light and dark, feeling and logic, never fully choosing a side. In In the Midst of Gray, Chainarong follows that in-between state through Chawky, a character who carries the quiet weight of growing up without quite knowing how to answer their own emotions. Encounters pass, connections form, affection deepens, then shifts. Not everything finds resolution. Some moments blur, others stay unexpectedly sharp. Chawky moves through this uncertainty with a kind of soft detachment, as if standing just outside their own story. The works feel reflective without becoming heavy. They ask simple questions that don’t quite settle: which memories stay brightest, and why do certain feelings refuse to fade, even as everything else slowly recedes? Until May 3. Free. Supples Gallery, 11am-6pm

Noo Monthip moves across disciplines with quiet ease, shaping voice, music, fashion and image without ever insisting on attention. This exhibition gathers what she leaves behind, assembled by family and friends who understand that her work speaks best when given space. ‘Wind’ becomes a gentle thread. You don’t see it, but you feel its presence in motion, much like memory that lingers, shifts and returns in unexpected ways. The ground floor, Baan Sailom, invites a slower pace, a place to sit and reflect. Upstairs, her life unfolds through sound, images and objects that feel deeply personal. A music corner hums beside fragments of writing. Another level brings fashion and collaborations, offering a fuller sense of how she connects with others, softly but unmistakably. Until April 30. Free. Museum Pier, 10am-6pm

Yondonjamts presents a curious new chapter with Wolf Loving Princess, a body of work shaped by mythology, language and the slightly illogical territory of dreams. Animals appear as quiet guides throughout the exhibition, nudging viewers to consider the fragile line separating domesticated life from something wilder, lingering just beyond it. The project spreads across artist books, paintings, sculptures, video installations and sound, each medium carrying fragments of a larger story. Yondonjamts plays with translation in a semi-fictional way, mixing ancient Mongolian script, experimental ‘Animal Mongolian’, binary code and English. The result feels like a conversation between the visible world and unseen realms.  Until April 25. Free. Gallery VER, midday-6pm

Songkran usually means street corners and water guns, but River City Helipad offers a different perspective. For two nights, the rooftop shifts into the KYVO Fire & Water Arena, suspended above the Chao Phraya, where music carries across open air. As evening settles, the skyline softens and the KYVO Fire Cube F02 takes focus. Flames rise in measured bursts while sheets of water move across the floor, cooling the crowd between tracks. People stand somewhere between soaked and sun-warmed, watching light shift against the river. The setting does most of the work, leaving you to take it in, slightly removed from the usual Songkran festiities. April 10-11. B800-20,000 via here. River City Helipad, 3pm-10pm

Kan Limsathaporn takes River Flows in You by Yiruma as a starting point, letting its familiar melody settle across a series of landscapes shaped by water. Rivers and streams stretch across the canvases, never fixed, always shifting, as if the scene refuses to stay the same for long. Each painting holds a small pause, though nothing truly stops. Colour drifts, edges soften, and time slips past almost unnoticed.  Until April 16. Free. M Floor, Maison Hotel Bangkok, 10am-8pm