In his diploma project ALL I EVER WANTED WAS EVERYTHING, Max Brenner draws viewers into post-apocalyptic, dystopian worlds that resonate with current global realities. It reflects on contemporary vices, emotional confusion and powerlessness of the individual in an age of accelerating digitalization and information overload.

Monolith-like objects lead to a coexisting temporality in which the future present is already complete — relics of a future in the here and now.

Visitors enter a state of mutual dependency with the objects positioned throughout the Exhibition space SEHSAAL, becoming part of an environment in which meaning is continuously negotiated. Brenner emphasizes participation, enabling the audience not only to engage with the work but to enter into an intra-action with it. The question WHAT DO YOU SEE? serves as a central point of departure, shifting perception from passive observation to active involvement.

Through the act of writing and drawing, participation becomes inscription - a gesture that simultaneously renders experiences visible and archives them. Writing and drawing functions as a symbolic act that fixes perception while acknowledging its instability, reflecting the tension between individual interpretation and collective memory.