Bangkok Art Events This Week
Check the main gallery openings, screenings and events in Bangkok this week and this weekend, 19 October – 25 October 2026
This week Bangkok’s galleries warm up for the Bangkok Art Biennale, which opens on 29 October. Saturday 24 October is the big night, with openings at Gallery VER, Nova Contemporary, FAZAL Unlimited, Atelier 9 and Kathmandu Photo Gallery, plus Thailand’s first Queer Book Fair at TK Park. Earlier in the week, Htein Lin opens “Zootopia” at West Eden Gallery, BACC stages the sound performance “19Hz Mythity Mistic”, and on Friday Bangkok CityCity Gallery hosts a screening and conversation around Korakrit Arunanondchai’s “Love After Death”.
Zootopia
Venue: West Eden Gallery
Exhibition Dates: 21 October – 27 December
Myanmar artist Htein Lin returns to West Eden with “Zootopia”, his second exhibition with the gallery and Coming from Kalaw. New paintings on reclaimed fabric and masks made from Shan paper and recycled materials, created with communities around Pindaya, fill a world of animals, creatures and hybrids. The show coincides with his inclusion in the Bangkok Art Biennale 2026. Opening reception: 21 October (6:00 PM – 10:00 PM).
19Hz Mythity Mistic
Venue: Bangkok Art and Cultural Center (BACC)
Performance: 23 – 25 October
A performance directed by Supamok Silarak with experimental sound artist Wutthichai Ainchu, weaving voices, music, poetry and sound with projected visuals and the body to tell the story of a mysterious land whose people rise in pursuit of equality. Studio, 4th floor. Tickets from 250 THB, booking required.
Breath Between Screens: Love After Death
Venue: Bangkok CityCity Gallery
Screening & Talk: 23 October (4:00 PM – 7:00 PM)
A special screening of Korakrit Arunanondchai’s 43-minute film “Love After Death” (2026), followed by a conversation between the artist, May Adadol Ingawanij and Hung Duong on ghosts, collective energy, cinematic form and intensity as a rehearsal of power. In English with live AI translation into Thai. Free admission, registration required. As 23 October is a public holiday, the gallery opens only for this event.
To Hold, To Be Held
Venue: Atelier 9
Exhibition Dates: 24 October – 20 December
Korean artist Jeon Gi-ok turns discarded cardboard into landscapes, architectural structures and thousands of hand-folded boats. Bringing together paintings, sculptural installations and spatial works, the solo exhibition reflects on support, interdependence and belonging: to hold is also to be held. Opening reception: 24 October (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM).
For My Grandmother
Venue: Kathmandu Photo Gallery
Exhibition Dates: 10 October – 28 November
Best known for “Platform 10”, his series shot at Hua Lamphong station, street photographer Rammy Narula turns to a more intimate space: his own family and the loss of his grandmother. Curated by Akkara Naktamna, the exhibition has been on view since 10 October and celebrates with an opening party this Saturday. Opening party: 24 October (6:30 PM – 9:00 PM).
MOMENTUM #06: The Butterfly
Venue: FAZAL Unlimited
Exhibition Dates: 24 October – 29 November
Warot Jarusirikul presents new paintings made for MOMENTUM #06, extending his “Psammoma” series. Microscopic structures associated with cancer, a disease he has watched affect people close to him, grow across the canvas into expansive fields of colour, blurring the line between the microscopic and the cosmic.
The Sacred Mountain
Venue: Gallery VER
Exhibition Dates: 24 October – 19 December
Korean artist Jinjoon Lee asks what we hold sacred, and how we might protect it, in an age when AI treats even the human mind and memory as data to be decoded. A body walking the mountain, hands burning and polishing driftwood, a machine repeating a ritual and sounds generated by a virtual fruit fly brain come together in a single performative environment. Opening reception: 24 October (5:30 PM – 8:30 PM).
Thai Queer Book Fair 2026
Venue: TK Park, CentralWorld
Festival: 24 October (12:00 PM – 6:00 PM)
Thailand’s first ever Queer Book Fair, organised with Bodhisattava Gallery, brings queer books, zines and their makers together for one afternoon on the 8th floor of TK Park, CentralWorld. Read, connect and support queer publishing.
Blazing
Venue: Nova Contemporary
Exhibition Dates: 24 October – 19 December
Chetsada Phuwiang’s first solo exhibition with Nova Contemporary brings together paintings in which the body rarely arrives whole. Built through layers of sand, oil, acrylic and airbrush, the works draw on the artificial glow of nightlife and the changing light of nature to consider queer experiences of desire, recognition and vulnerability. The show coincides with his inclusion in the Bangkok Art Biennale 2026. Opening reception: 24 October (5:00 PM – 8:00 PM).
Forward living: Bas Jan Ader
Venue: Bangkok Kunsthalle
Talk: 25 October (3:00 PM – 5:00 PM)
A talk with curator Leonardo Orion Dal Colle and Vân Đỗ around “Bright at Midnight”, the first exhibition of Bas Jan Ader’s work in Thailand and Asia, which brings three key works from 1970 to 1975 into the unfinished architecture of Bangkok Kunsthalle.
For more information on all current exhibitions at art galleries and museums in Bangkok, check our Exhibitions section.