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Bangkok Art Scene

Outside the Art and Culture Centre

Bangkok's Burgeoning Art Scene

It might not be one of the world’s most famous art hubs, but what the Bangkok Art scene lacks in size and prestige, it more than makes up for in vibrancy and thrusting modernity. A day out gallery hopping is enough to get you around most of the private and commercial galleries. While mostly promoting local Thai artists, there are a number of international artists displaying their works.

Although the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (opposite the MBK shopping mall) has made some progress towards integrating the city’s art experience, the best way for you to cover a much bigger and broader spectrum of art in Bangkok, is to simply jump around the maze-like inner city seeing a few different galleries.

La Lanta Fine Art is located in Sukhumvit 31, one of Bangkok’s most affluent districts. Roughly translated, Lalanta means beauty in abundance – a bold claim which the gallery satisfies by exhibiting contemporary works by internationally acclaimed artists from the United Kingdom, the USA, Australia, Argentina, China, Vietnam, Denmark, Japan, Israel and of course home-grown talent from Thailand.

The 100 Tonson Art Gallery is a fantastic private gallery space, coveting 100 square metres, and aiming to promote contemporary art from some of Thailand’s brightest hopes. Paintings, sculptures, photographs and installations from both Thai and international artists co-exist with new media and conceptual pieces.

Inside the Art and Culture Centre

Art Galleries of Bangkok

Described as the beating pulse of the Thai art scene, the Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre is the first civic exhibition space in the city that integrates contemporary art pieces with traditional art, and helping push the boundaries of the countries cultural output. Galleries of Bangkok

The Chulalongkorn Art Centre is regarded as the most progressive university gallery in the city and has attracted the country’s most cutting-edge artists, as well as top international talent. The centre’s approach is both experimental and traditional, offering a place for artists to explore multi-disciplinary methods.

Gallery F Stop was opened as part of the excellent vegetarian restaurant, The Tamarind Café and has developed a reputation as the place to see photographic exhibitions, ranging from monochrome to colour, analog to digital, fine art as well as human interest documentary. It is well worth a visit around dinner time!

Set in a former Royal Mint building, the National Gallery dating from King Rama V’s reign, exhibits the work of classic Thai artists from the 17th Century onwards. This stunning building was inherited by the Department of Fine Arts in 1974, and includes a permanent exhibition of work done by King Rama VI himself, plus many traditional murals charting the city’s formative history. The National Gallery also boasts some pioneering modern art from recent Thai artists on which influences from Western ideas such as impressionism and cubism is quite obvious. It is such an essential addition to your art tour of Bangkok.

To view several other great Art Galleries in Bangkok as well as the art galleries of Chiang Mai and Phuket, do not hesitate to click on the link you see here.

Why not visit the Thomas Cook website to discover some pretty reasonable fares to Bangkok and many other Thomas Cook bargain holidays.

Brass Head at the National Gallery

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