PROJECT 1838 BUFFER ROOM EXHIBITION
Exhibition 05 June - 12 June 2026
|Creative Asia Art Centre
Project 1838 Buffer Room Exhibition supports emerging artists across painting, installation, digital media, photography, sculpture, and experimental practices in 2026
Time & Location
Exhibition 05 June - 12 June 2026
Creative Asia Art Centre, Level M, 18/38 Siddeley St, Docklands VIC 3008, Australia
About the event
About the event
Project 1838 Buffer Room Exhibition
—— What does home mean in a world shaped by constant movement?
📣 Exhibition Period: 05 June - 12 June 2026 (Complimentary drinks and curated refreshments will be served at Opening)
📍 Creative Asia Art Centre, World Trade Centre Melbourne
📝 Free Entry
Buffer Room is a contemporary group exhibition showcasing the work of emerging artists across diverse disciplines including painting, installation, digital media, photography, sculpture, moving image, and experimental practices. Presented at the Creative Asia Art Centre in Melbourne, the exhibition creates a platform for artists to explore themes of identity, belonging, memory, and displacement within an increasingly mobile and interconnected world.
The exhibition is presented by Australia Multi Art & Culture Council collaboration with the Creative Asia Foundation, organisations committed to supporting emerging artistic voices and fostering cross-cultural dialogue through contemporary art.
Curated around the question “What does home mean in a world shaped by constant movement?”, Buffer Room examines belonging not as a fixed destination, but as something formed through personal histories, emotions, rituals, and the fragments we carry with us. In today’s multicultural and rapidly shifting society, home may exist in familiar sounds, objects, routines, landscapes, or fleeting moments that offer comfort and connection.
Bringing together works across installation, painting, sculpture, photography, moving image, and performance, Buffer Room transforms the gallery into a transitional space between staying and leaving — a place for pause, reflection, and reconnection. Rather than presenting a single perspective, the exhibition invites multiple narratives and experiences to coexist, creating a dialogue around contemporary ideas of place, identity, and emotional grounding.
More than an exhibition, Buffer Room is a shared space for conversation and exchange, bringing together artists, audiences, and communities to reflect on memory, migration, and the evolving meaning of home in contemporary life.