With contributions by – 
Noam Saragosti: Preface
Dan Handel: Double Door
Krista Mileva-Frank: Skips and Leaps: Playing Game of Goose

Photography by Erik Benjamins and Florian Holzherr.

Designed by Gymnasium Studio

Game of Goose is a site-specific exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Maayan Elyakim, created for and presented at the VDL House in Los Angeles (April through July 2025), an esteemed National Historic Landmark designed by Austrian-American architect Richard Neutra. Curated by Dan Handel, the exhibition draws its name from the historic board game and explores movement, chance, and shifting mental landscapes, transforming the modernist residence into a reflective and dynamic experience.

Delving into the lesser-known dimensions of the VDL House, the exhibition weaves a narrative shaped by its history as a home, social hub, and workspace. Inspired by the House’s balance of clear architectural boundaries and constant fluctuations in movement, social interactions, and mental states, each work in the exhibition reflects this tension – where structures showcase interiors that are fluid, spiraling, and ever-changing. The exhibition’s spatial journey – from the ground floor entrance to the rooftop – is conceived as an intensifying gradient, transitioning from the cerebral to the experiential, much like navigating a three-dimensional game board.

Curator: Dan Handel
VDL Resident Director – Noam Saragosti
Project Manager – Tali Cherizli
Research and Development Assistant – Noee Zahavy

This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of Elital and Jason Arison, Nancy M. Berman, Reva Kahn, Dudi Lazar, Ann and Dr. Ari Rosenblatt, Orly and Avishai Shachar, AIDA, Artis, Artport, Manifest Institute, Pais Council for Culture and Arts, and the Rabinowitz Foundation, with in-kind production support provided by Kvadrat and VS Furniture.
Additional support for the catalogue was generously provided by Dan Suesskind and Sharon Golan.