Frieze may be the headliner arts event in London this month, but several other exhibitions are debuting in the city simultaneously and are culturally significant in their own right.

“Syncretic Voices,” featuring contemporary art from the South Asian diaspora and modern design from India, is one example. Rajan Bijlani, 40, a British Indian collector and curator, conceived the show in collaboration with the art advisers Truls Blaasmo and Michael Jefferson, a former senior specialist in 20th-century design at Christie’s.

Bijlani is hosting “Syncretic Voices” in his townhouse, Fonthill Pottery, the former residence and studio of the celebrated British ceramist Emmanuel Cooper. Located in Primrose Hill, Fonthill Pottery is a short walk from Regent’s Park, where Frieze is held.

The exhibition will showcase the works of six artists and Bijlani’s sizable collection of design work by the architects Pierre Jeanneret and Le Corbusier in Chandigarh, India, in the 1950s and ’60s.

Bijlani’s family was displaced by the India-Pakistan partition in 1947 and relocated to London in 1965.

He said that his heritage informed the exhibition and his collection. “The partition of India and Pakistan led to mass migration, including my own family’s departure from the continent to the U.K,” he said. “This moment of change also saw the blossoming of a modern India, symbolized by the construction of Chandigarh, the city which inspired me to start collecting.

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