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

Thailand’s largest and longest-running international motor show returns once again, officially recognised by the Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d’Automobiles. The event brings together leading global car manufacturers, regional brands and emerging EV companies. Visitors can expect major launches, concept cars and important market debuts for Thailand and Southeast Asia. Large exhibition booths feature production vehicles across every category, including electric cars, performance models, luxury brands and motorcycles. Accessories, aftermarket products and special promotions are also available, with many visitors placing orders directly at the show.  Challenger Hall, Impact Muang Thong Thani. March 25-April 5. Monday-Friday noon-10pm, Saturday-Sunday 11am-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

STILL House stands quietly among the glass towers of Asoke, a restored heritage home that favours memory over gloss. Its latest chapter exhibition unfolds through a collaboration between NORSE Republics and &Tradition, a name long associated with Danish craft and considered modernism. Rooms shift from domestic familiarity to thoughtful installation. Chairs, lamps and objects sit not as showroom pieces but as prompts for touch and contemplation. Soft scent lingers, sound hums gently, small tastings appear during workshops that encourage slowing down. The exhibition frames design as lived experience rather than static display, offering a brief retreat from the city’s insistence on speed without losing sight of its context.   Until April 15. Free. STILL House, 10am-7pm

It dictates cravings, stretches lunch breaks and tests bravado. Once a year that fiery obsession takes centrestage at Kimpton Maa-Lai Bangkok, which transforms into a roaming kitchen for Chilli Fest, now in its fourth round. Michelin-calibre names cook alongside neighbourhood favourites, each interpreting heat through their own lens. Thai curries sit beside Mexican aguachile, Korean spice meets Punjabi street fare and Southern Thai fire shares space with Spanish-Japanese tapas. You wander, taste, compare notes. As sunset nears, attention shifts to the Chilli Eating Contest. Contestants climb towards peppers measuring 2.2 million on the Scoville scale. The crowd winces, laughs and waits for the final, tearful triumph. March 28. B250-B800 via here. Kimpton Maa-Lai Bangkok, 2pm-9pm

Bangkok welcomes 2026 with a knowing wink as Muse Anime Festival sets up at JAM SPACE, a familiar meeting point for pop culture devotees. This is less trade fair, more shared obsession. Fourteen anime titles spread across 17 photo zones turn fandom into a walk-through experience, complete with oversized sets and scenes designed for lingering rather than rushing. Expect towering inflatables of Momo and Okarun from DAN DA DAN plus Rimuru, the eternally cheerful slime, looming large for cameras. Beyond the visuals, shelves fill with officially licensed pieces and harder-to-find imports, tempting even the disciplined collector. Food gets its own moment too, thanks to a themed cafe riffing on SPY x FAMILY and That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime.    January 10-March 29. Free. 4/F, MBK Centre, 11am-9pm

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

A taste of Tottori lands in Bangkok as Tsu Japanese Restaurant at JW Marriott Hotel Bangkok presents a seasonal showcase that runs ‘til April. The focus rests on a prefecture shaped by wind, water and restraint. Tottori Prefecture stretches along the Sea of Japan, framed by Mount Daisen and its storied slopes, and long ribbons of sand edging the coast. Landscape informs flavour; clarity matters. Chef Atsushi Yoshida builds a menu around regional produce. Nebarikko Age-dashi celebrates the area’s prized yam, crisp shell giving way to softness. Zuwai snow crab meets ikura in clay pot rice, sweet flesh balanced by saline pop. A5 Tottori Wagyu Olein 55 striploin offers generous marbling, while gyokotsu ramen simmers slowly before Oushu pear sorbet closes on a clean note. Until April 30. Starts at B280. Tsu Japanese Restaurant, JW Marriott Hotel Bangkok, 11.30pm-10pm

A cheerful pop-up from The Gallery Shop and Flashback marks the birth month of Vincent van Gogh, one of the most beloved figures of the Post‑Impressionism era. The event borrows familiar motifs from his paintings and translates them into objects you can actually hold, wear or take home. The idea celebrates the pleasure of making things rather than obsessing over perfect results. That message echoes Van Gogh’s own story: a life filled with struggle and little recognition while he lived, yet driven by relentless creativity that eventually reshaped modern art. Browse a pop-up shop filled with sunflower patterns and swirling colour references, step into a photobooth styled with painterly backdrops, then turn snapshots into playful keychains decorated with charms inspired by his most recognisable symbols. Until March 31. Free. The Gallery Shop, River City Bangkok, 10am-8pm

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

If you should find yourself feeling all jazzed out, head over to Soi 88 for a cold beer instead. Woodstock Bar is a watering hole where you can experience another pillar of Americana roots music, the blues. Nightly jam sessions riffing on the classic 12-bar template are led by bar-owner and local guitar hero Ped Bluesman, with his band, The Blues Cats.     Everynight. Free. Woodstock Bar, 4pm-midnight