Just Flip a Coin (2020) marks the beginning of the collaborative painting practice of Brenner-Havelka-Plessl. Through a shared process of Max Brenner and Nick Havelka, individual artistic signatures are deliberately reduced and merged, creating a hybrid visual language that resists clear authorship.

The large-scale painting unfolds as a contemporary Wimmelbild reminiscent of Hieronymus Bosch, in which countless figures, architectural fragments, symbols, and absurd events merge into a complex world of simultaneous narratives. Bright, almost playful colors initially attract the eye, while closer observation reveals a disturbing world shaped by existential fear, greed, power, oppression, social inequality, hopelessness, and loss of control.

Originally conceived around the subject of homelessness and designed for reproduction on a five-storey architectural banner, the composition emphasizes depth and spatial instability. Its densely populated and interconnected scenes evoke the tradition of the Wimmelbild and grotesque narrative painting, while simultaneously reflecting a contemporary condition of visual overload. The result resembles a modern purgatory - a knotted cycle in which actions, social structures, and individual destinies continuously collide, leaving chance, as the title suggests, as an unsettling governing principle.