Backyard bazaars, lantern-lit art trails, immersive garden futures and techno-animist car funerals, here’s your curated guide to Bangkok’s most unmissable art, design and culture moments happening right now.

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This weekend, Bangkok unfolds in an order that moves from open-air wandering to riverside immersion, from machine requiems to rice rituals, before stretching into vintage cool, women-led culinary takeovers and full-scale festival spectacle. Whether you’re in the mood for backyard treasure hunts, neighbourhood art trails, contemplative exhibitions or future-facing feasts, the city is very much awake.

Start in Sukhumvit with a garden market at House Lagom, then follow the lantern-lit streets of Lan Luang, Chakrabongse and Nang Loeng for Bangkok Art Walk. Drift riverside to River City Bangkok, where Ging Gaan Bai imagines the next twenty years of urban gardens, before stepping into Bangkok Kunsthalle’s techno-animistic meditation on the afterlife of a BMW.

From there, slow down with Kanokwan Sutthang’s reflections on rice and coexistence at Warin Lab Contemporary. Looking ahead, mark your calendar for vintage finds at RE:TURN MARKET, women shaping global gastronomy at Banyan Tree Bangkok’s HERitage Week, the multi-zone creative playground of Mango Art Festival and, finally, a rare Antarctic screening at MATDOT Art Center.

Here’s where to go this weekend and why you’ll want to.

1/9 House Lagom Market in the Backyard

Dates & Time: 21–22 February 2026, 3pm–9pm
Venue: House Lagom, Sukhumvit 20
Admission: Free

This urban sanctuary in Sukhumvit 20 opens its garden for a relaxed weekend market filled with second hand fashion, homewares, books and handmade finds. Workshops, live music and café corners complete the laid back atmosphere.

2/9 Bangkok Art Walk by L’On Bangkok

Dates & Time: 21–22 February and 28 February – 1 March 2026, 4pm–10pm
Venue: Lan Luang – Chakrabongse – Nang Loeng
Admission: Free

The second edition of Bangkok Art Walk transforms Lan Luang, Chakrabongse and Nang Loeng into an open air art trail. Expect live painting, craft stalls, jazz and soul performances, with part of the proceeds supporting children’s and animal welfare foundations.

3/9 The 20 Years Ahead by Ging Gaan Bai

Dates & Time: Now until 23 February 2026, 10am–8pm
Venue: Galleria 3, 2nd Floor, River City Bangkok
Admission: Free

Celebrating two decades of landscape design, Ging Gaan Bai presents The 20 Years Ahead, a living exhibition imagining the future of urban gardens. Founded by Tawatchai “Boy” Sakdikul and Ploytabtim “Ploy” Suksang, the studio has earned international recognition, including a place among the top seven Urban Gardens at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2021.

Visitors journey through five immersive garden rooms, from the contemplative Garden of Stillness to the transformative Garden of Motion, where light and shadow shift from day to night. Hidden objects are scattered throughout, inviting guests to uncover fragments of the studio’s twenty year story.

4/9 Forever Love Soul Engine at Bangkok Kunsthalle

Dates: Now until 15 March 2026
Act I: 7–28 February 2026
Act II: 2–15 March 2026
Venue: Bangkok Kunsthalle
Tickets: THB 250
Tickets via: Ticketmelon

In Forever Love Soul Engine, artist Pansan Klongdee transforms a salvaged BMW E34 into the centre of a techno animistic ritual. Curated by Mark Chearavanont, the installation meditates on the afterlife of machines, memory and material breakdown.

Structured in two acts, the exhibition began with a funeral performance on 6 February 2026. By 1 March, the car will be dismantled in a live ritual, its sounds reconfigured into a haunting soundscape. The former garage space becomes a concrete coffin, challenging anthropocentric ideas of death and remembrance.

5/9 Weevils in Rice at Warin Lab Contemporary

Dates & Time: Now until 11 April 2026, 4pm–7pm
Venue: Warin Lab Contemporary, OP Garden, Charoenkrung Soi 36
Admission: Free

Kanokwan Sutthang’s Weevils in Rice invites audiences to reconsider the idea of purity through the unlikely figure of the weevil. Curated by Pojai Akratanakul, the exhibition reflects on the tension between organic life and industrial refinement, exploring themes of exclusion, filtration and coexistence.

Drawings and paintings trace processes from the tender act of hand washing rice to the harsher presence of fumigation tablets. Upstairs, a collaborative video installation with young Isan thinkers interweaves folklore, Su Kwan Khao blessing chants and spells that seek negotiation rather than destruction.

6/9 RE:TURN MARKET by RookieBKK

Dates & Time: 27 February – 1 March 2026, 11am–9pm
Venue: MRT Kamphaeng Phet Station, Exit 1–4
Admission: Free

Vintage shopping meets cool comfort at RE:TURN MARKET, hosted inside MRT Kamphaeng Phet Station. Over seventy curated vendors offer clothing, shoes and accessories, alongside a student friendly zone and live performances.

7/9 HERitage Week at Banyan Tree Bangkok

Dates: 2–8 March 2026
Venue: Banyan Tree Bangkok and selected venues within the hotel

In partnership with S.Pellegrino, Banyan Tree Bangkok presents HERitage Week, a celebration of women shaping the future of gastronomy. From 2 to 8 March 2026, female chefs, mixologists and winemakers take over the hotel’s signature venues.

Highlights include a royal Thai dinner aboard Apsara Cruise with chef Nooror Somany Steppe, Peranakan heritage cuisine at Bai Yun with chef Beh Gaik Lean, rooftop pizza at Saffron Sky Garden and a Mediterranean grand gala by chef Vicky Sevilla of Arrels in Barcelona.

Proceeds after expenses will support Half Way Home for Protection and Development of Mental Disabilities for women in Pathum Thani Province.

Prices: From THB 790–8,800 depending on event
Reservations: 0 2679 1200

8/9 Mango Art Festival 2026

Dates & Time: 4–8 March 2026
Venue: 1st and 2nd Floors, River City Bangkok
Admission: Free

Returning for its sixth edition, Mango Art Festival ignites creativity under the theme ICON. Spanning contemporary art, design, fashion and live performance, the festival transforms everyday inspiration into lasting legend.

Six zones range from established international galleries such as YOD TOKYO and gallery. sort of., to independent artists including Joan Cornellà and over one hundred creatives. Expect craft reimagined for modern living and immersive stage programmes throughout.

9/9 WINTEROVER Screening at MATDOT Art Center

Date & Time: 5 March 2026, 10am–12pm
Venue: Black Hall, MATDOT Art Center
Admission: Free

Australian artist Stephen Eastaugh presents a special screening and talk on WINTEROVER, documenting his eleven month residency at Mawson Station in East Antarctica. The film captures blizzards, the Aurora Australis and the creation of art in one of the world’s most remote landscapes.