Happy Summer 2025
Sint-Truiden
The village 2010
Sint-Truiden
Re set Home 2015
Tongeren-Borgloon
Re set Haspengouw 2025
Tongeren-Bogloon
History
Since 2005, Gert Robijns has been developing Reset projects in South Limburg, Belgium. The direct trigger was an incident during the exhibition Delicious, where the work Summer Love was damaged. The installation, consisting of a car placed upside down and a stuffed dog lying on its back inside a small vehicle, was misunderstood by the local community and physically altered.
This moment raised a broader question: how can an artistic intervention both disrupt and reconnect? At the request of the mayor, Robijns proposed to reconstruct 75% of his hometown, including the church and the presbytery, as a white model placed at the end of a runway. The village was reduced to a recognisable but open image, conceived as a blank page inviting reinterpretation and dialogue.
Five years later, Robijns purchased the house of his grandparents. The building was largely dismantled and shifted by 10 centimetres, a minimal yet meaningful displacement. With Reset Home, the house reappeared as a brick volume integrated among other residential buildings. The project did not result in a closed sculpture, but in a habitable structure and a place for dialogue with both local and international artists.
From 2015 onwards, the Reset concept expanded towards the surrounding landscape. Through the use of scale models, Robijns explored how agricultural processes and resources could function as a starting point for the realisation of a total artwork. An initial proposal on agricultural land at the Bollenberg met with strong resistance and was eventually relocated to the site of Reset Home.
In 2026, Reset Haspengouw was realised. At the same time, Reset Home was extended with two new spaces: Reset Studio, a former warehouse converted into a workspace, and Reset Greenhouse, a semi-underground greenhouse in which artistic and other forms of activity in and around the landscape continue to be explored.