# Rob Scholte
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thumb|right|300px|Rob Scholte giving a lecture during the incubate pirate conference 2010 in Tilburg, Netherlands
'''Rob Scholte''' (born 1 June 1958) is a Dutch [contemporary art](/source/contemporary_art)ist. From 1977 to 1982 he studied at the [Gerrit Rietveld Academie](/source/Gerrit_Rietveld_Academie), Amsterdam. His work consists of reproductions of images from the media and from art history. He lives and works in [Den Helder](/source/Den_Helder).
His work has been shown in Galerie Witteveen Amsterdam (2004, 2005, 2006), Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen (2005), [Groninger Museum](/source/Groninger_Museum) (2002); [Fries Museum](/source/Fries_Museum) (2000), [Paleis Huis ten Bosch](/source/Huis_ten_Bosch_(theme_park)), Nagasaki (1995), [Sprengel Museum](/source/Sprengel_Museum), Hannover (1994), Grey Art Gallery, New York (1993), Museum Van Bommel-Van Dam, Venlo (1992), Kunsthaus Hamburg (1991), [Stedelijk Museum](/source/Stedelijk_Museum), Amsterdam (1990), [Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo](/source/Museum_of_Contemporary_Art%2C_Tokyo) (1989), Aperto, Venice (1988), Boijmans Van Beuningen (1988); [Documenta](/source/Documenta), Kassel (1987), [São Paulo Art Biennial](/source/S%C3%A3o_Paulo_Art_Biennial) (1985), [Venice Biennale](/source/Venice_Biennale) (1990).
In 1994 Scholte lost both his legs when a bomb exploded under his car.[{{cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=EfAaAAAAIBAJ&dq=the%20bombing%20of%20rob%20scholte&pg=1880%2C51482 |title=Daily News - Google News Archive Search |format= |access-date=2010-12-02}}][Anthony Haden-Guest, ''True Colors: The Real Life of the Art World'' (Chapter Six: ''The Dark Side: The Bombing of Rob Scholte''), Atlantic Monthly Press (1998)] In 1995 a [molotov cocktail](/source/molotov_cocktail) was thrown through the window of his house in [Tenerife](/source/Tenerife).[Anthony Haden-Guest, ''True Colors: The Real Life of the Art World'' (pp236), Atlantic Monthly Press (1998)]
==Selected work==
* ''Olympia'' (1988): a copy of [Manet](/source/Manet)'s ''[Olympia](/source/Olympia_(painting))'' which replaces the naked woman with a wooden puppet.
* ''Après Nous le Deluge'' (1995): a mural inside the replica of the [Huis ten Bosch](/source/Huis_ten_Bosch) at the Dutch-themed amusement park in [Sasebo, Nagasaki](/source/Sasebo%2C_Nagasaki), [Japan](/source/Japan).
* ''Blue period'' (2004): familiar logos, images or objects in blue and white and mounted in classical, golden frames.
* ''The Embroidery Show'' (2005): existing pieces of embroidery hung back to front on the wall. There was an exhibition of these pieces in [Museum de Fundatie](/source/Museum_de_Fundatie) (Zwolle, Netherlands) from April to September 2016.
==Selected bibliography==
* ''How to Star''. Cat. [Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen](/source/Museum_Boijmans_Van_Beuningen), Rotterdam (1988).
* ''All the portraits are up to date''. Cat. Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne (1988).
* ''6 Dutch Artists''. Cat. Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (1989).
* ''Energieën''. Cat. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1990).
* ''Rob Scholte''. Cat. Art Random, Kyoto (1990).
* ''7 Year Itch''. Cat. Kunstverein, Hannover (1991).
* ''Après nous le déluge''. Cat. Huis ten Bosch, Nagasaki (1992).
* ''Nether Art''. Cat. Grey Art Gallery, New York (1993).
* ''The Living Room''. Cat. Kunstverein Grafschaft, Bentheim (1995).
* ''As far as Japan''. Cat. NBKS, Breda (1996).
* ''Plug-Ins''. Cat. Fries Museum, Leeuwarden (2000).
==See also==
* [Appropriation art](/source/Appropriation_art)
==References==
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