Carsten Höller: career timeline

Belgian · b. 1961 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 21 of 24 lots (88% of works) have a usable creation date; the others are listed at the end by the decade they were sold. Each work is shown once, even when it sold more than once.

Carsten Höller: works at auction by decade the work was made. Each work counted once; medians use sold works only, in US dollars.

Decade made	Works	Sold	Median sold price	Main medium
1990s	5	4	$11.2kSign up	Other
2000s	12	10	$13.6kSign up	Photograph
2010s	4	4	$17.4kSign up	Etching

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1990s 5 works

Sold: 4 of 5
Median: $11.2kSign up
Average: $14.9kSign up
Typical size: 48 × 48.5 in (122 × 124 cm)
Mediums: Other (2), Photograph (2), Sculpture (1)
Subjects: —

1995 Red Baby Whale$11.2kSign up
1995 Red Baby WhaleUnsold
1997 A-Rad$30.5kSign up
1998 Quallen 2 (Jellyfish 2)$6.6kSign up
1998 Quallen 5$11.3kSign up

2000s 12 works

Sold: 10 of 12
Median: $13.6kSign up
Average: $18.7kSign up
Typical size: 12.5 × 12.5 in (31 × 31 cm)
Mediums: Photograph (4), Acrylic (3), Etching (2)
Subjects: Birds (1)

2004 Mushrooms$5kSign up
2004 The ElevatorUnsold
2004 Pilze$1kSign up
2004 Pilze$1kSign up
2004 Punktebilder (Dot Paintings)$14.7kSign up
2004 MushroomUnsold
2004 Mushroom$12.5kSign up
2006 Birds$22.8kSign up
2009 Canaries$12.5kSign up
2009 Doppelpilzvitrine$16.8kSign up
2009 Doppelpilzvitrine (24 Doppelpilze)$63.8kSign up
2009 Doppelpilzvitrine (10 Doppelpilze)$36.8kSign up

2010s 4 works

Sold: 4 of 4
Median: $17.4kSign up
Average: $17.8kSign up
Typical size: 14 × 10.5 in (36 × 27 cm)
Mediums: Etching (1), Photograph (1), Acrylic (1)
Subjects: —

2010 Black Canary$699Sign up
2011 Lignano Aquasplash Anaconda$4.5kSign up
2015 Double Mushroom Vitrine (Once)$35.7kSign up
2019 Triple Mushroom Dome (Amanita muscaria/Coprinopsis atramentaria/Acrolepiota procera)$30.3kSign up

Creation date not recorded

3 works have no cataloged or signed date. They are grouped here by the decade they were last sold, which says nothing about when they were made.

Undated, sold in the 2020s 3 works

Sold: 0 of 3
Median: —
Average: —
Typical size: 27.5 × 15.5 in (70 × 40 cm)
Mediums: Other (3)
Subjects: —

sold 2022 UntitledUnsold
sold 2022 UntitledUnsold
sold 2022 UntitledUnsold

Medians and averages count sold works only (each work's most recent sale), in US dollars at the sale-date rate. Works cataloged as “attributed to”, “circle of” or similar are left out. All Carsten Höller auction results →