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

Martin Constable doesn’t just exhibit art – he rearranges your sense of time. His survey show under the theme ‘Future History’ feels like standing in two centuries at once, where technology works in the background and humanity shrinks to a whisper beside the universe. In Space 1, machines and matter blur, leaving viewers to question what progress even means when set against infinity. Next door, Space 2 goes quieter, yet heavier. Constable’s digital and video works unfold like dreams caught between loading screens – serene, but edged with unease. They speak to that quiet panic of wanting to be remembered while knowing everything fades. The rooms feel less like galleries and more like waiting rooms between worlds, asking what remains once the timeline ends and memory begins to pixelate. Until November 29. Free. Bangkok University Gallery, 9.30am-4.30pm

Bangkok has a habit of erasing its own stories. In a city that never stops rebuilding, the buildings that once defined its skyline are quietly slipping away, taking people’s memories with them. Vanishing Bangkok catches those final moments before they’re gone for good. Through photographs of three icons – Scala, Sri Fuangfung and the Robot Building – the exhibition mourns the city’s fading modernist past while preserving its fragments. The works hang inside Vanich House, a creaking wooden structure once used as a garage, now reborn as a vessel for remembrance. Concrete prints lean against weathered beams, creating a strange tenderness between decay and revival. The show doesn’t simply document what’s lost – it reminds us how forgetting happens, brick by brick, until nostalgia becomes the only architecture left. Until November 2. Free. Vanich House, 10.30am-5.30pm

Halloween returns with a local twist, and this one’s got a sense of humour. The flea market is back, dressed in its ghostly best, trading cute for creepy with handcrafts inspired by Thailand’s spookiest folklore. Think Mae Nak on a tote bag, Phi Krasue keychains and candles shaped like something that definitely shouldn’t be glowing. Workshops let you try your hand at summoning the strange – or at least painting it. Between stalls, laughter mixes with a touch of unease, the kind that only comes when the stories your grandmother warned you about start looking a bit too real. You’re leaving with crafts, snacks and maybe a tiny haunting tucked somewhere in your bag – a very Thai souvenir. October 25-26. Free. GalileOasis, 10am-7pm

For the first time in Thailand, Pumpkie & Spookie invite you to roam a world where theatre and terror collide. EmSphere becomes a stage for the darkly playful, a place to lose yourself among flickering shadows and whispered scares. The ground floor hums with the Night Market and merchandise stalls, offering trinkets and treats that feel just a little mischievous. Upstairs, the fifth floor unravels into a labyrinth: the Haunted House, a mini bar and an experience zone that twists expectations at every turn. Every corner teases, every corridor surprises, and the night lingers longer than you expect. By the end, Halloween doesn’t feel like a date on the calendar – it feels like something you wander through, a little unnerving, entirely thrilling, and utterly unforgettable. Until November 2. B790 via here. EmSphere, 1pm-midnight

A four-month experiment that asks what happens when those guiding us through exhibitions stop being mere explainers and start becoming storytellers, confidants, maybe even co-conspirators. Curated by Pongsakorn Yananissorn, the programme gathers twelve hosts – to rethink how knowledge moves through art spaces. Through workshops and shared encounters, they explore what lingers after the lights dim and the last viewer drifts out. The focus rests not on the artworks alone but on the people orbiting them: the artists, the visitors, the community that quietly sustains it all. GHost 2568 turns the act of guiding into something intimate and alive – a reminder that art, at its best, is a conversation still unfolding. Until November 16. Free. Bangkok Citycity Gallery, 11am-6pm

Halloween gets a glamorous twist this year at Tease, where fright meets fashion and no one’s afraid of a little drama. DJs spin back-to-back as tarot cards turn, bingo calls echo and costumes teeter between art and absurdity. The night’s golden ticket? A stay in a Pool Suite at The Standard, Pattaya – a prize as indulgent as the party itself. Penfolds keeps glasses full with bold reds that match the mood, each sip warming the night as music blurs the hours. Since 1844, the label’s been known for its confident pours, and tonight it fits right in. When DJ Sonny Amerie takes over, his smooth, soulful sound keeps the room moving. October 25. B650 via here. The Standard, Bangkok Mahanakhon, 7.30pm  

October’s Contemporary World Film Series puts the spotlight on Something Like an Autobiography, a film that feels as personal as its title suggests. Directed by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, Bangladesh’s pioneer of new-wave cinema, and starring his wife Nusrat Imrose Tisha – the country’s most recognisable screen presence – the project blurs the lines between art and lived reality. Written together during lockdown, the script folds their own marriage into fiction, with Farooki stepping in front of the camera for the first time opposite Tisha. The title itself nods to Akira Kurosawa’s memoir, a quiet homage to one of Farooki’s great influences. It’s a work born of confinement yet expansive in reach, a film about intimacy that has already started to ripple far beyond its origin. October 25. B20 at the door for non-TK Park members. Reserve via filmforum17@gmail.com. TK Park, Central World, 4pm

Bryce Watanasoponwong’s latest exhibition feels like walking through the afterimage of a dream – one you’re trying to recall before it slips away. Across 18 mixed-media works, he asks what lingers when memories lose their edges and scatter. Drawing on Buddhist philosophy and the writings of Daisaku Ikeda, the show wrestles with how to create meaning in a world that never stops shifting. Each piece starts with a photograph, then bends light through kaleidoscopic lenses and slide film until form and colour drift apart. Layers of soft hues blur, framed in white like the border between presence and recollection. Tiny 3D-printed figures populate these worlds – standing, reaching, fading – until only one remains. It’s hauntingly beautiful, a quiet meditation on the way memory thins but never fully disappears. Until December 7. Free. The Charoen AArt, 11am-7pm 

Bangkok’s drag scene has never been afraid of the dramatic, but Halloween gives it permission to go gloriously unhinged. This year comes with a fever dream stitched together from sequins, fake blood and untold secrets whispered at the afterlife’s velvet rope. The night starts with a walk through the Highway to Horror – a tunnel of flickering lights, disorienting shadows and unexpected cameos from things that don’t blink. By the time you reach the stage, it’s all wigs, wails and wicked glamour. Ten queens strut, scream and lip-sync like they’ve made peace with the darkness and found it fabulous. Costumes compete, the music bites and everyone looks just slightly possessed – which, for a drag night in Bangkok, feels exactly right. October 25. B567-1,989 via here and B1,000 at the door. Glowfish Sathorn, 6pm-11pm  

Home within Home turns a familiar neighbourhood house in Ari into a labyrinth of memory and feeling. Patcharaporn Kwansangwan, an independent Thai artist, expands her illustrated book Where’s a Home? into a full-bodied experience of light, sound and installation, each room unfolding like a question. Walking through the two floors, you navigate hallways and corners that mirror your own inner spaces, asking what home really means, where it lives, and who – or what – makes it feel whole. The exhibition spills beyond visual art, with music, theatre and workshops layering movement and voice over the installations, creating a quiet dialogue between visitor, body and space. Each step feels intimate yet expansive, a reminder that home is rarely one place; it exists in the fragments, echoes and gestures that we carry with us, often without realising. Until November 2. Free. People of Ari, Yellow Lane, 10am-7pm