Pirate Art Island — Galleries’ Nights 2025
Galleries Night on the River — Docked Edition
21 November 2025 | Bangkok Island Pier, Rama 3 Soi 64
Free Entry
Galleries Night Bangkok 2025 is a night where the city decides that creativity should not sleep. It carries the same spirit as Nuit Blanche — a moment when art becomes the pulse of urban life and imagination spills beyond gallery walls. For 15 editions, this event has reminded us that Bangkok is a city of artists who thrive after dark, who refuse silence and smallness, and who expand boldly into the night. And in this year’s edition of Galleries Night Bangkok 2025, a new space joins the constellation of creative venues across the city: the river.
On 21 November 2025, Bangkok Island transforms into Pirate Art Island, a floating extension of the festival and one of the most unusual stops within Galleries Night Bangkok 2025. The boat will not sail; instead, it will remain docked — alive, glowing, and breathing like a temporary artistic organism anchored on the Chao Phraya River. It becomes an “open gallery,” not in the traditional sense of quiet walls and still frames, but as a living installation where every movement, breath, and interaction contributes to the artwork itself.
This year’s Galleries Night Bangkok 2025 features 85 galleries opening their doors throughout the city. Bangkok Island stands alongside them as a multi-sensory space where visual art, performance, sound, fashion, poetry, and movement merge into a single unfolding experience. Visitors will not just look at art — they will enter it.
A Living Installation on the River
As guests step onto the boat, they immediately sense that Pirate Art Island is different from any other venue participating in Galleries Night Bangkok 2025. Here, performance is not restricted to a stage; it becomes the air between bodies. Music does not operate as background — it shapes emotion, color, and the rhythm of the crowd. Light interacts with the water. Costumes shift with the wind. Paint responds to dance. Every moment feels temporary, unrepeatable, and alive.
The open-air deck becomes a fluid environment where sunset transforms naturally into night, creating the first artwork of the evening. The river becomes both a mirror and a collaborator, adding motion to every installation and reflecting the glow of the festival. The entire vessel becomes an artistic statement — a floating extension of Galleries Night Bangkok 2025.
At Pirate Art Island, disciplines merge freely:
- Poetry intertwined with rhythm and breath
- Movement blended with surreal fashion and sculpture
- Canvas painted in real time, influenced by dancers’ motion
- Aerial art rewriting gravity
- Shibari expressed as emotional geometry
- Ambient collectives offering healing soundscapes
- DJ sets bending mood and altering time
This is not a party.
It is a portal — a dream you walk into.
Hand-Craft Art Market & Ambient Zone
A hand-crafted art market welcomes visitors with designers, makers, and local creatives. Nearby, an experimental music collective performs soft ambient textures — meditative drones, healing tones, and atmospheric layers. This peaceful area offers a place to slow down, reflect, and prepare for the more intense or surreal experiences happening elsewhere on the boat.
Open Air Stage Schedule
16:00–22:00 — ViNNi KiNiKi
19:00–19:30 — Alistitle (Performance Art)
19:30–20:00 — Deeproot (Thai Opera)
20:00–20:30 — Sun (Fashion x Surrealism)
20:30–21:00 — Kinetic Poetic (Poetry with Beats)
21:00–21:30 — Sakshi (Painting with dancers)
21:30–00:00 — DJ Rorry Breaker Morrant
Hall Deck Stage Schedule
19:30–20:00 — Shibari
20:00–21:00 — Aerial Dance Show
21:00–21:30 — Shibari
21:30–23:30 — Experimental Music
Why This Night Matters
What makes Pirate Art Island a meaningful part of Galleries Night Bangkok 2025 is the way it dissolves boundaries. Art is not something you simply view. It is something you feel on your skin, in your breath, in the subtle slowing of time as the river moves beside you. Every installation, every sound, every performance becomes a moment suspended between the city and the water.
The river has witnessed Bangkok’s history, transformations, and cultural evolution. On this night, it witnesses its creativity.
Entry is free. No ticket required.
Just walk in and let yourself drift into the installation.
Pirate Art Island proudly joins Galleries Night Bangkok 2025 on the Chao Phraya River.
