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

Clear your diary and text the group chat because the glass you talk about all year waits patiently here. What once answered only to beer now drops the label and widens its scope. The festival shelves Thai craft brews alongside natural wines, sharp little cocktails and small-batch spirits poured by the people who actually make them. Each stallholder arrives with a backstory, which makes wandering from table to table feel oddly intimate. You sip, you chat, you learn why that citrus note matters. A mini-election runs throughout the weekend, inviting everyone to vote for favourites and crown crowd heroes. It’s a neighbourhood gathering with better lighting and far better drinks.   March 6-8. Free. ChangChui, 11am-11pm

Six years on, Mango Art Festival still has its moment. From 4 to 8 March, it settles at River City Bangkok with the theme ‘ICON’, arguing that today’s overlooked objects become tomorrow’s fixations. In the Gallery Zone, Japan’s YOD TOKYO and Editions stands alongside Manila’s Gallery. Sort of. and Malaysia’s A4 ART GALLERY. The Independent Artist area pairs cult provocateur Joan Cornellà with regional names and emerging studios, while 95 fresh faces claim space in the Newcomer section. Craft appears with a sustainable rethink, TOR presents ‘Little Man’, and the main stage hosts candid creative conversations.    March 4-8. Free. River City Bangkok floors 1 and 2, 11am-8pm

Dr Mahmoud Safadi presents a solo exhibition that reads like pages from a lived diary. For him, painting goes beyond lines, forms and colour. Each canvas carries fragments of personal history alongside the wider story of the Palestinian people, holding endurance, memory, loss and a stubborn strain of hope in careful balance. You sense that every mark arrives with weight behind it. The opening takes place on Saturday February 28 at 6.30pm, with refreshments shared among guests and live music setting a reflective tone. Designer Dimas Angkling joins musician Issac Aesili for the evening, adding another layer of feeling to work that already speaks quietly yet firmly for itself.   February 28-March 14. Free. Bohemian Art Space, 10am-5pm

Pet expos often mean fluorescent halls and polite clapping for pedigree winners. This one rewrites the script. The weekend plays out as a full-tilt hangout where you browse smart feeders and wearable tech, stock up on treats, watch dogs strut and cats judge everyone silently, then wander over to adoption booths and donation drives before catching a live set without leaving the venue. Phase 1 of the line-up reads like a festival poster: Jaonaay–Jaokhun, Gavin, Twopee Southside, Safe Planet and Better Weather lead more than 30 acts. Between sets, celebrity pets such as Jum Meng and Moo Too make guest appearances. You come for the animals, stay for the music and leave wondering why every fair doesn’t feel this lively.   March 5-8. B20 at the door. Krung Thep Aphiwat Central Terminal Station, 10am-9pm

Takuya Mitani lingers on that uneasy line between sweetness and the stranger instincts we prefer to keep tucked away. The starting point is a painting titled Tiny tiny Icarusy icarusia, a sideways nod to the Greek myth of Icarus. Here, the boy does not plummet in disgrace. Instead, he slips back into a kind of infantile regression, retreating from adult expectation towards something softer. The wax wings melt, yet it reads less as punishment, more as surrender, a drifting off rather than a crash. Six further canvases expand the idea. Girls appear adorned with ram horns, crocodile tails, artificial wings, each accessory doubling as armour. Beneath the decorative calm sits a flicker of wildness. The myth feels present tense, still reshaping itself before our eyes.   Until March 22. Free. Joyman Gallery, 11am-6pm

Envelopes arrive like quiet travellers, each carrying a fragment of someone else’s world. This exhibition gathers printmakers from across continents under the tender premise of ‘Mail Art’, where works pass hand to hand before settling side by side on a single wall. Every sheet holds a journey, a memory, a stamp that hints at distance crossed. Printmaking, after all, resists the lazy label of reproduction. It sits somewhere between laboratory and studio, balancing chemistry with instinct. Woodcut, etching, lithography and screen printing share space with newer experiments, each surface revealing social tensions, cultural codes and private fixations. Lines bite, ink lingers, paper breathes. On Saturdays March 7, March 14, March 21 and March 28 from 1pm-3pm, artists demonstrate their craft and welcome walk-ins to make a piece of their own. March 3-29. Free. Pre-register here. Gallery B1 Room, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, 10am-10pm

Anastasia Maslova and Damian Black map the uneasy terrain of human attachment, tracing bonds that bruise even as they brighten. Their exhibition studies intimacy as structure: fragile, ferocious, occasionally splintered. Affection leaves marks, yet those same marks seed renewal. Visitors move through a multisensory setting where photographs hang beside paintings, sculptures share space with wearable pieces and interactive objects ask for touch rather than distance. Candles release a signature scent developed with Crystals and Herbs, adding another quiet layer to the experience. Nothing feels decorative; each work circles the paradox of connection, at once tender and unnerving, destructive and generative. You wander, pause, reconsider your own history of closeness, and perhaps recognise that vulnerability often carries its own strange beauty.   March 7-27. Free. Sathorn 11 Art Space, 5pm-2am

Paper takes centrestage at Print Pop-Up, a hybrid exhibition and market devoted to art prints and zines. The format stays refreshingly simple: tables stacked with fresh screen prints, older editions that deserve a second look and quietly brilliant pieces from artists and studios based across the Thai capital. Browsing feels intimate, almost conspiratorial, as if someone lets you in on a well-kept secret. Expect bold graphics, delicate line work and the satisfying tactility that only ink on paper delivers. Conversations start easily between strangers comparing finds, swapping recommendations and debating which piece claims the last bit of wall space at home. Cold drinks wait on standby, doing their best against the Bangkok heat, so you linger longer than planned. March 7-8. Free. SOKO, 1pm-8pm

Hands still matter, even now. At Rosewood Bangkok, Made in Thai-Hands arrives through a collaboration with Play Art House, offering a thoughtful look at living craft traditions shaped by patience rather than speed. Curated by independent artist Seada Samdao, the exhibition brings together 10 Thai artists working between inherited techniques and contemporary thinking, without treating either as fixed. Moving through the space feels like travelling across different landscapes, guided by texture, material and touch. Threads hold hours of quiet labour, pigment settles through instinct and surfaces reveal years of repetition. Nothing rushes for attention. Instead, each work carries the weight of human effort and the calm confidence that comes from knowing a process deeply. While the rhythms of making remain central, the voices feel current, led by a generation carrying tradition forward with clarity rather than reverence. Craft here feels alive, personal and quietly defiant.   Until March 20. Free. G/F, Rosewood Bangkok, 9am-9pm

Thai illustrator Lili Tae, also known as Phindita Techamongkhalaphiwat, presents a solo exhibition curated by Jason Yang that feels like stepping through shifting layers of memory, dream and landscape. Her digital paintings grow from quiet encounters with forests, wandering paths and unexpected meetings with flora and fauna, reshaped through a deeply personal lens. Soft brushwork meets luminous colour, allowing realism to brush against fantasy and moments of gentle surrealism without losing emotional clarity. Figures appear suspended between waking life and subconscious reflection, suggesting stories half remembered rather than fully explained. Natural textures echo skin, water, leaves and shifting weather, giving each image a tactile presence despite its digital form. Viewers wander through scenes that feel intimate yet expansive, reflecting how imagination reshapes daily observation without ever fully separating from lived experience.   Until March 16. Free. GalileOasis Gallery, 9am-8pm