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

For three days, Cloud 11 joins forces with Looker to take over Bangkok’s largest rooftop park, stretching across 16,000 square metres. The space transforms into what they call a Cultural Floor, which in practice means film folk, fashion upstarts, designers and musicians sharing the same patch of grass. The curation leans thoughtful. Independent labels and emerging names replace the predictable rail of copy-paste trends. You wander, you chat, you probably buy something you didn’t plan to. Best of all, it unfolds in an actual park, high above the traffic. The city hums below while dogs trot happily beside their owners.    March 13-15. Free. Cloud11 Bangkok, 3pm-11pm

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

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

March arrives and Funky Lam marks it in the most Lao manner possible: with heat, herbs and a generous hand. From Tuesday March 3, every woman who walks through the door receives tam mak hoong on the house, all month. Consider it less a promotion, more a gesture. This is papaya salad as Luang Prabang makes it. The fruit is shaved into ribbons rather than hacked into chunks, then worked patiently in a clay mortar until the dressing seeps through every strand. Padaek brings its deep, funky bass note, anchoring lime, chilli and tomato with unapologetic strength. The result tastes bold, savoury and fiercely itself.  Until March 31. Free. Funky Lam, 6pm-midnight

Five female artists share a gallery, yet the exhibition reads more like a book passed between friends. Paintings line the walls as if they were pages, while the opening text appears as a table of contents split neatly into five chapters. Each section reflects a different perspective shaped by personal memories, lessons gathered over time and quiet reflections on that endlessly winding path called life. What makes the show engaging lies in how each artist speaks through her own visual language. One favours delicate storytelling, another leans on symbols that reveal meaning gradually. Placed side by side, the works build subtle layers that reward a slow walk around the room. Visitors linger, look again and notice details missed at first glance. Fans of any participating artist will likely treat this as a welcome reunion. Until March 22. Free. PLAY art house, 10am-6pm

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

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

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

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