New Delhi, Feb. 23 -- Standing below the 5-storey building in Connaught Place's inner circle, you see the windows of the 2nd and 3rd floors boarded up with plastic and cardboard. When you climb up to the first floor, you enter a room where the paint is peeling off the walls exposing both the plumbing and red bricks, and old graffiti covers the rest of it.

Welcome to the city's newest pop-up space. For the next 10 days, this space will host an art exhibition featuring works of a number of contemporary south Asian artists..

Over the coming few months, the curators said, the idea is to explore showcasing art in a space different from the norm.

"When you go to a museum or a gallery, that space is really sanitized, so that you can only see ...