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

75 years after Charles Schulz first drew a small dog with improbable dreams, Snoopy is still everywhere – dancing on T-shirts, perched on mugs, drifting across the cultural imagination with the ease of someone who never grew up. This anniversary exhibition, arriving in Bangkok for the first time, asks what it means for a cartoon beagle to outlast presidents, wars and changing fashions. More than 100 works are on display, gathered across four zones that slip between art, couture, pop culture and nostalgia. Contributions from Thai and international artists sit beside collaborations with major fashion houses, while archival strips remind us that friendship and humour are never dated.  September 6-December 7. B350-890 via here. RCB Galleria 1-2, River City Bangkok, 10am-8pm

Colour isn’t just decoration, it’s shorthand for everything we can’t quite say out loud. A blush of pink, the thud of red, the quiet ache of blue – it’s a vocabulary that sidesteps grammar and dives straight into the gut. This exhibition, born from a collaboration between a Thai space and Seoul’s L Gallery, leans into that idea with six Korean artists who treat colour like a confession booth. 2Myoung twists play into sculpture, Im Solji sketches storybook daydreams, Kim Ok-Jin finds solitude in the city’s shadows, Lee Jaeyual paints landscapes that slip between folklore and neon. Suzy Q sends her alter-ego Moo wandering through questions of selfhood, while Qwaya steadies the room with soft green and blue oils. Together, they remind us colour is never passive – it’s always speaking. September 5-October 12. Free. Maison JE Bangkok, 11am-7pm

There’s a curious magic in stepping back millions of years – a chance to wander a world before ours, where giant creatures roamed freely. This event offers just that: an immersive trek alongside Thai dinosaurs and prehistoric beasts, as if the clock has unwound to a forgotten era. Each step pulls you deeper into a landscape shaped by colossal terrestrial rulers, their shadows still lingering in the imagination. It’s less a simple exhibition and more a portal to ancient earth, where awe and curiosity collide. For anyone who’s ever been fascinated by the primeval, this is an invitation to experience wonder unfiltered – a rare glimpse of a world lost but never forgotten. July 1-November 2. B150-350 at the door. Museum Pier, 10am-6pm

In an age where a picture can be generated faster than you can boil a kettle, the idea of slowing down to actually ‘make’ something feels almost radical. That’s the question at the heart of Baan Trok Tua Ngork’s 2025 In-Residence programme, aptly titled Making Matters. This time, it’s the turn of Thyme Neelaphanakul – also known as Blue in Green – a multidisciplinary artist with a habit of coaxing meaning out of rocks, flowers, even the dust beneath our shoes. For this residency, Thyme turns to fire, both as metaphor and material, reshaping nature’s raw edges into something else entirely. Expect two weeks of live studio work, where the process is laid bare, followed by an exhibition stitched together from a month’s worth of experimentation. Until September 21. Free. Baan Trok Tua Ngork, 10am-10pm

When was the last time you noticed yourself breathing – not the rushed, shallow kind you do on the commute, but a slow inhale that reminds you you’re still here? Folded Embrace takes that simple act and turns it into something visible. The artist has built an entire language out of paper, folding and colouring it until each crease feels like a pulse, each hue like a memory resurfacing. What might look fragile at first glance carries weight, a reminder that tenderness doesn’t cancel out strength. Some works feel like diary entries, others like half-forgotten dreams pressed flat, yet all hold the same quiet insistence: to pay attention. It isn’t about spectacle. It’s about catching yourself in the moment, and holding on just long enough to feel it. Until September 29. Free. Baansuan Sudawan, 10am-6pm

It began with a diary. Maharani Mancanagara found her late grandfather’s notebook, the scribbles of a man once locked away as a political prisoner, and suddenly the gaps in history books had names, faces and memories. That discovery didn’t just alter her – it redirected her entirely, setting her up as a storyteller for those who were quietly erased. Her chosen medium is turmeric. Yes, the kitchen spice, but in her hands it stops being culinary and becomes alchemical: a root that carries survival, wisdom, pre-colonial knowledge passed through generations despite colonial disruption. Its yellow stains aren’t just pigment, they’re testimony. What makes this project compelling is how it refuses to sit still as ‘art’. It doubles as memorial, as medicine, as a bridge between West Sumatra and Southern Thailand, showing that borders can heal as much as they divide. Until October 4. Free. Warin Lab Contemporary, 10.30am-7.30pm

The noise, the colour, the sense that anything could happen. Fighting Bomberland at Central World takes that same energy and bends it into something gentler – a playground for anyone who’s felt their spark slip away. It isn’t pitched as a fix-all, more like a soft nudge that whispers you’re not the only one stumbling through the chaos. Between oversized characters, playful installations and game stalls, the mood is equal parts silly and soothing. Claw machines guard prizes dreamt up by artists, workshops slow the pace with brushes and paint, and carnival booths swap tat for keepsakes you won’t find elsewhere. The point isn’t to win, really – it’s to remember what it feels like to want to try again. September 8-14. Free. Central World, 10am-10pm

Meet Starfy, a starfish with amnesia and a restless urge to look skyward. For Korean artist Lee Yeonwoo, this lost little creature isn’t just a toy – it’s a mirror. Starfy Universe, his first solo show, transforms the character into paintings and hand-painted sculptures that double as fragments of autobiography. The story goes like this: Starfy wakes beneath the night sky, unsure of who they are, but convinced those distant lights might hold the answer. From there begins a cosmic wander, shape-shifting to survive whatever world comes next. It’s whimsical, yes, but also quietly profound. Every piece folds back onto Lee himself, tracing resilience, longing and the strange comfort of reinvention. Think less cartoon mascot, more alter ego navigating the chaos of memory and identity. Until October 5. Free. Trendy Gallery, River City Bangkok, 10am-7pm  

Imagine walking into a room flooded with red, green and blue – pure light, stripped to its essentials, yet somehow unfamiliar. That’s the entry point for this exhibition, which brings together 1,000 photographs chosen from an open call, each one a tiny spark in a bigger conversation. Here, though, it’s treated like raw material for storytelling. The result feels less like a gallery and more like stepping into a prism, where photographs don’t hang politely but spill out in waves of colour. It’s part archive, part experiment, and entirely immersive – a reminder that photography is still finding new ways to reinvent how we look. Until October 19. Free. Mun Mun Art Destination, 10.30am-7pm

Bangkok rarely takes a breath, yet the 43-metre passage at Samyan MRT insists we slow down. Tent Katchakul has drenched the tunnel in his sprawling linework, a mural where skyscrapers collide with daydreams and the city’s daily grind feels suddenly negotiable.Though the point is less about talent and more about togetherness. Anyone can pick up a brush, trace a thought or scribble a memory and watch it join the chorus of colour already spilling across the walls. The result is neither gallery nor graffiti but something stranger, softer, communal. From morning until evening the tunnel opens, a reminder that sometimes the act of making is itself the masterpiece. Until September 20. Free. Samyan MRT Tunnel, 10am-10pm