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

The Warehouse Flea Market returns, not with a bang but with the hum of speakers, the clink of glasses and the rustle of vintage denim. It’s the kind of weekend gathering that feels less like an event and more like a familiar ritual. Tucked between food stalls and fashion racks, you’ll find offbeat treasures and the odd artefact you didn’t know you needed. DJs hold court on open decks, spinning tunes as casually as someone making a mixtape for an old friend. There are hands-on workshops for the restless, pop-up experiences for the curious, and enough accessories, art and oddities to turn wandering into a full-blown sport. Come for the drinks, stay for the unexpected.  July 25-27. Free. The Warehouse Talad Noi, 4pm onwards

There’s a certain kind of visual maximalism that doesn’t beg for attention so much as demand it – Hugo Brun’s work is exactly that. Loud in the best way, his pieces flirt with chaos: clashing colours, cartoonish proportions and the bold swagger of pop art unbothered by subtlety. His furniture sits somewhere between sculpture and set piece – chairs that feel like they might wink at you, tables that seem halfway to melting. It’s no surprise they’ve become backdrops for a thousand selfies, but there’s more to them than surface spectacle. Beneath the gloss and playful disorder lies a wink to nostalgia, a rebellion against beige interiors, and the refusal to be tasteful in a world that insists you should be. Burn isn’t decorating – he’s declaring. Until October 18. Free. River City Bangkok, 10am-8pm

We don’t talk enough about surfaces. Not metaphorical ones – real, mineral, chalky, bruisable surfaces that hold the weight of what’s been felt and then forgotten. In this exhibition, Kik Anchalika’s first solo show, emotion is not just depicted but absorbed into the wall itself. Gouache, typically soft and yielding, is here forced onto lime plaster – an unforgiving canvas that doesn’t welcome reworking. There’s no gloss, no varnish, no retreat. Just sedimented gestures, washed-out tones and silences that seem to linger in the cracks. Kik paints like someone archiving what can't be said – grief, longing, a flicker of joy before it collapses. The result is something tender yet raw, ancient yet recent. A quiet confrontation between pigment and pressure, memory and mineral. Nothing polished, everything present.  Until August 3. Free. KYLA Gallery and Wine Bar, midday-midnight

Step into a space where yesterday’s style meets today’s curiosity – a curated jumble of secondhand gems, handcrafted pieces and collectibles so rare they feel almost secret. It’s less a market and more a mood: casual but charged, where the thrill lies in the hunt and the stories behind each find. Here, parting with a beloved treasure isn’t loss but exchange, set against a backdrop of live music weaving through conversations and laughter. Drinks in hand, you drift between stalls, the air thick with possibility and the kind of effortless camaraderie that turns strangers into companions. It’s an invitation to slow down, explore without pressure, and rediscover the joy in things that carry a past but live fully in the present. July 25-27. Free. Chang Chui Creative Park, 5pm-midnight

For three days in Bangkok’s old town, wine becomes more than a drink – it’s a conversation, a mood, a minor act of rebellion. The BangCork Wine Fair unfolds like a carefully poured glass: bold at first, then surprisingly complex. Across the venue, eight importers bring their best-kept secrets – bottles you won’t find on your average wine list, each with its own backstory and bite. The fair doesn’t just encourage sipping, it invites listening. Vinyl records spin slow and low, turning the space into something closer to a house party than a tasting room. There are small plates that know exactly what they’re doing, and masterclasses that assume you’re smart enough to care. This isn’t about luxury – it’s about curiosity, discovery and the quiet thrill of a perfect pour. July 25-27. B500 via here. Long Dang Dang, 2pm-9pm

In his latest offering, Udom Taephanich – long known for saying too much with a single raised eyebrow – turns his attention to the strange erosion of play. Not the type sold in boxes, but the kind we used to conjure instinctively, when sofa cushions became castles and questions came without hesitation. Back then, imagination was a birthright. We made monsters out of scribbles, entire worlds from cardboard. Then came the invisible border called adulthood, where mistakes became shameful and joy needed justification. A reminder that the real decay isn’t physical – it’s forgetting how to be ridiculous without apology. And maybe, just maybe, it’s reversible. Jun 7-Aug 3. B250-850 via here. The Pinnacle Hall, ICONSIAM, 11am-9pm

Once a printing house, now a memory pressed between tiled floors and wooden stools – this exhibition remembers Thai Wattana Panich not just as a building, but as a beating heart of knowledge production. Tucked in the centre of Bangkok, it served as a quiet engine of authority, where language wasn’t simply used but standardised. Today, the show asks what happens when the direction shifts – when words don’t trickle down from textbooks, but bubble up from tweets, slang and subtitled memes. It’s not just about nostalgia; it’s about power, who holds it, and who gets to redefine it. In one room, a narrow reading space mirrors cramped living quarters. Visitors must squat to read. It’s a subtle nod to who language once excluded, and who now rewrites the rules from the bottom up. There are games, too. Of course. Until Aug 17. Free. Bangkok Kunsthalle, 2pm-8pm  

Sculpted from wood and shaped by scientific observation, Peerapong biomorphic forms straddle the line between relic and warning, tangled in the quiet grief of ecological collapse. These aren’t merely artworks; they are elegies for forests cleared, rivers choked, soil stripped bare. Deforestation, monoculture, pollution – they seep through the grain like ghosts. Originally rooted in Northern Thailand, the sculptures have been lifted from earth to concrete, now standing uneasily within the sterile geometry of a gallery. They appear both sacred and displaced – like offerings misplaced on the wrong altar. The installation turns the white cube into a kind of greenhouse, less for growth than reflection. What does it mean, they seem to ask, when nature must be framed to be noticed at all? Until August 31. Free. MATDOT Art Centre, 10am-6pm

At first glance, she’s just a little girl – barefoot, wide-eyed, often mid-thought – but look closer and ‘Little’, the character at the centre of Peachful’s debut solo exhibition, is more than a sketch. She’s a vessel for what gets buried beneath grown-up logic: yearning, softness, the ache to be chosen. Known for her light-as-air linework, Peachful doesn’t just draw feelings – she maps them, tracing the contours of longing and nostalgia with the quiet precision of someone who’s felt it all before. This isn’t an escape into fantasy so much as a reckoning with it. Through the fairytale lens of childhood dreams, the exhibition asks: what if the princess we wanted to become was never the goal, but the question? And what if the answer has been quietly waiting, just beneath the surface, all along? Jul 3-Aug 3. Free. RCB Galleria 4, River City Bangkok, 10am-8pm

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