Rob Scholte

Rob Scholte (born 1 June 1958) is a Dutch contemporary artist.

His work consists of reproductions of images from the media and from art history.

His work has been shown in Galerie Witteveen Amsterdam (2004, 2005, 2006), Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen (2005), Groninger Museum (2002); Fries Museum (2000), Paleis Huis ten Bosch, Nagasaki (1995), Sprengel Museum, Hannover (1994), Grey Art Gallery, New York (1993), Museum Van Bommel-Van Dam, Venlo (1992), Kunsthaus Hamburg (1991), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1990), Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (1989), Aperto, Venice (1988), Boijmans Van Beuningen (1988); Documenta, Kassel (1987), São Paulo Art Biennial (1985), Venice Biennale (1990).

In 1994 Scholte lost both his legs when a bomb exploded under his car.

[1][2] In 1995 a molotov cocktail was thrown through the window of his house in Tenerife.

Rob Scholte giving a lecture during the incubate pirate conference 2010 in Tilburg, Netherlands