Ardel Gallery of Modern Art

Ardel Gallery of Modern Art has operated on Boromratchachonnani Road in Thawi Watthana district since 2006, when Thai artist Prof. Thavorn Ko-udomvit — a Silpakorn University graduate — founded it. He still runs the gallery as director and curator, which gives it a consistency of taste that larger, committee-curated spaces don’t have.

The gallery runs rotating exhibitions in clean, white-walled rooms, typically changing every few weeks. Shows mix established and emerging artists, Thai and international, across painting, ceramics, printmaking, and mixed media — a July-August 2026 exhibition, for instance, paired ceramics with textile work exploring personal memory through porcelain. Because the program turns over regularly, what’s on view on any given visit is genuinely different from the last, rather than a fixed permanent collection.

This is a west-of-the-river location, away from Bangkok’s central gallery clusters, so it draws a smaller, more dedicated crowd than the downtown spaces — genuinely useful if you want to look at work without dodging tour groups.

Insider Tip: Check the gallery’s own website or Facebook page before visiting to see what’s currently showing — with exhibitions turning over every few weeks, what’s on the walls can differ significantly from what’s described in any general write-up, including this one.

The location is easiest to reach by taxi or ride-hailing app rather than public transport; have the exact address ready, since Boromratchachonnani Road runs a long way and drivers unfamiliar with this stretch may need the soi number. If you want to see more of Bangkok’s contemporary art scene on the same trip, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre and MOCA Bangkok are both established public and private galleries elsewhere in the city, though neither is within easy walking distance of Ardel.