NAGOTA
Photo & Art Project by Adam Ripley
Curated by Anna Galeeva
Initiated by TOVA Gallery
In collaboration with The Diversecity Models Team
With artistic contributions by Kristina Tarasova and Daniel Mais
Supported by pjur, a brand for premium intimate products – Made in Germany
Supported by purplehaze
NAGOTA brings together 60 original photographs created over a decade, examining the human body in relation to landscape, perception and visibility. The project approaches nakedness as a state of presence, transformation and connection with nature. The naked body in NAGOTA is understood as a form of visual honesty: a body appearing as real, vulnerable, living and complex before it is reduced to social categories, expectations or automatic judgement.
The collaboration with Diversity Models expands this question into a live encounter. Diversity Models represents talent across ethnicity, disability, body size, age, gender identity and visible difference. Within NAGOTA, this collaboration asks who is allowed to be seen, how bodies are framed and how visual culture can create a more open and generous way of looking.
Merge, 2026 photography by Adam Ripley
Challenge, 2024 photography by Adam Ripley
The main public moment of the collaboration takes place on Tuesday, 16 June 2026. At 15:00, Galerie Zimmer48 opens to visitors and press for a public presentation of the collaboration between NAGOTA and Diversity Models. At 15:40, the public is invited to attend an Artistic Runway with Diversity Models.
The runway brings NAGOTA's key themes — naked body, corporeality, visibility and self-acceptance — into a live format. It creates a public encounter with body diversity through presence, movement and the shared act of looking. In this context, self-acceptance means being seen without correction or concealment, while corporeality refers to the lived experience of inhabiting the body. Through this live presentation, Adam Ripley's photographic research meets the mission of Diversity Models in a space of perception and dignity.
Escape, 2026 photography by Adam Ripley
Green and Pink Squama, 2014 photography by Adam Ripley
Rage, 2006 photography by Adam Ripley
PROGRAMME
11 June 2026
6:30 pm
Vernissage
Opening of NAGOTA with a curatorial introduction, a presentation of Adam Ripley's photographic method, artistic contributions by Kristina Tarasova and Daniel Mais, and a partner presentation by pjur.
12 June 2026
1:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Exhibition Open
13 June 2026
1:00 pm – 8:30 PM
Exhibition Open
4:00 pm
Presentation by Daniel Mais
5:00 pm
Presentation by Kristina Tarasova
6:30 pm
Group Session: Body, Image and Perception (with Svetlana Gorbacheva, psychologist and transactional analyst)
14 June 2026
1:00 pm – 8:30 PM
Exhibition Open
2:00 pm
Guided Reflection Session: The Body and Landscape
4:00 pm
Guided Reflection Session: The Body in Metamorphosis
6:00 pm
Slow Looking Session: How Beauty Emerges
16 June 2026
3:00 pm
Public and Press Presentation (Galerie Zimmer48 opens to visitors and press for the main public presentation of the collaboration between NAGOTA and Diversecity Models)
3:40 pm
Artistic Runway with Diversecity Models (The public is invited to attend an artistic runway presentation with four models. The runway brings NAGOTA's central themes — naked body, corporeality, visibility and self-acceptance — into a live format through presence, movement and the shared act of looking)