Khao Yai Art Forest Launches Rainy Season Art Experience
Khao Yai Art Forest is launching a rainy season program that combines forest bathing, contemporary art installations, and seasonal dining. Visitors can enjoy guided nature walks, interactive artworks like “Pulsus Vitae” and the fog landscape “Khao Yai Fog Forest”, and a special art bar. Shuttle service from Bangkok and detailed opening hours are provided for easy access.
During this rainy season, Khao Yai Art Forest invites visitors to experience the allure of the forest and contemporary art, transforming ordinary days into special moments for relaxing the body and mind and re-energizing life. Spread across over 530 rai, the site offers quality time amidst nature—breathing fresh air, listening to leaves, feeling the breeze, gazing at greenery, and being present. Inspired by forest bathing, the experience promotes relaxation and refreshment for body and mind. The rainy season enhances the forest’s charm with colorful foliage, moist soil, humid air, mist, clouds, and shifting light and shade. Along the trails, native flora blooms seasonally—from white blossoms of stone tek, yellow flowers of mangrove and samet, to purple and pink blooms of Thai tick-trefoil—adding color to the rainy forest and encouraging slower, more attentive walks to discover hidden beauty. Amid the forest, contemporary artworks by Thai and international artists are seamlessly integrated into nature. Highlights include the new interactive installation “Pulsus Vitae (2013)” by French duo Scenocosme (Gregory Lasserre and Anais met den Ancxt), inviting viewers to attune their perception to the forest’s subtle rhythm through embrace and ear‑to‑trunk listening, sensing the trees’ vibrations as if hearing their pulse. Also featured are the Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya’s fog landscape “Khao Yai Fog Forest”, legendary land‑artist Richard Long’s “Madrid Circle (1988)” of arranged slate stones prompting reflection on life cycles, human time, and Earth’s time, and the site‑specific art bar “K‑BAR” by Elmgreen & Dragset, open the second Saturday of each month, surrounded by forest and displaying paintings by Martin Kippenberger, where each drink becomes part of a conversation between art, space, and the present moment. The experience extends to “The 4th Element Tasting Experience”, a lunch and dinner menu built around the elements—earth, water, wind, fire—crafted by chef Wuthisak Wuthi-amporn and team using local seasonal ingredients and produce from Khao Yai Art Forest, presented with local wisdom and artistic elegance. For those wishing to escape city hustle comfortably, Khao Yai Art Forest provides a shuttle service from Bangkok’s KunStern Halle, departing at 10:00 am, arriving around 1:00 pm for afternoon art immersion, a Forest Print Workshop from 1:30‑3:30 pm, the Khao Yai Fog Forest experience at 4:30 pm, and return departure at 5:00 pm. The forest art venue is open Thursday‑Friday 12:30‑6:00 pm and Saturday‑Sunday 10:00 am‑6:00 pm; admission is 500 baht for adults, with student rates available.
