Every February, Delhi observes a space for exchange for ideas, aesthetics, politics, memory, power, and pleasure in the form of India Art Fair. Located in Okhla Phase III, for a few days, art lovers willingly submit to traffic, winter haze, and long walks across exhibition grounds, drawn by the promise of a most compelling gathering for art.
Now in its 17th edition, India Art Fair has snowballed into something much more than a mere trade show. What unfolds at the NSIC Exhibition Grounds in Okhla is a living ecosystem—commercial, performative, discursive, and deeply social. Galleries sell, collectors browse, institutions observe, but just as often, visitors pause to listen, watch, and reconsider. It is this friction between commerce and culture that gives the fair its distinctive pulse.