Savaya's New Bali Club Comes With a 10-Metre Wooden Goddess and a Martinez Brothers Booking

Dates: Grand Opening Weekend September 25-26, 2026 (open daily since August 19) / Venue: Zumana, Sunset Bay Kuta, Jl. Kartika Plaza No. 2, Kuta, Bali / Tickets: zumanabali.com via Megatix, Rp 600,000-1,000,000

A ten-metre wooden face crowned in leaves now watches the sunset over Kuta beach, and in five weeks the Martinez Brothers play house music at her feet.

A Second Address on the Coast

Savaya Group, the outfit behind the clifftop club that just climbed to No. 5 in DJ Mag's world rankings, opened its second Bali venue on August 19. Zumana sits at Sunset Bay in Kuta: 35,000 square feet of daybeds, a 200-seat restaurant, a pool deck and an open-air dance floor, designed by New York firm Rockwell Group, better known for hotel lobbies and Restoration Hardware showrooms than Indonesian nightlife.

At its center stands Zenía, a ten-metre sculpture by South African artist Daniel Popper, her leaf-crowned face flanked by two carved wooden totems under a vine-covered arch that opens straight onto the pool. It's the kind of centerpiece built for a thousand Instagram stories before a single DJ touches the decks, and on that count it's already working: Bali travel blogs were writing walkthrough guides to the sculpture before the club had even confirmed its opening lineup.

Why Kuta

Bali's clubbing money has spent the last three years chasing Uluwatu's clifftops and Canggu's rice-field bars, a split Loopliner mapped out in its guide to where to actually party in Bali. Kuta, the island's original surf-and-backpacker strip, mostly got left with the Bintang singlets and the tourist-trap clubs. Savaya CEO Alex Cordova is betting that's about to change. "Kuta was one of the places that first introduced Bali to the world, and we believe it has an opportunity to enter an exciting new chapter," he said in the launch announcement. KAJA Group president director Nadia Tjahyadikarta framed it as a design brief: Zumana, she said, "was conceived from the ground up for this coastline, bringing together Indonesian spirit with a global perspective."

Read past the press-release language and the move still makes sense. Kuta has cheaper land than Uluwatu's clifftop real estate, a beach flat enough for the daybed-and-pool format Savaya already runs a few kilometers south, and none of the traffic bottleneck that turns a night out on the clifftops into a 45-minute taxi negotiation.

The Numbers Backing the Bet

Savaya isn't a newcomer gambling on a hunch. The original club just took fifth place globally in DJ Mag's 2026 Top 100 Clubs poll, up from sixth the year before, and has now been voted Asia's No. 1 club for three years running. That's the reputation Zumana is borrowing, and the reason international bookers are paying attention before the venue has run a single full season. Our own guide to Bali's best house and techno clubs already treats Savaya's Cube as the loudest room on the clifftops. Zumana doesn't need to match it on night one. It needs to become the group's convincing second act.

Grand Opening Weekend

The venue has been running daily since August 19, but the real test lands September 25 and 26. The Martinez Brothers, the Bronx-born duo who've spent the last decade turning Ibiza residencies into a global brand, headline Friday. Satori, the French live-electronic act known for hardware-heavy, hypnotic sets, plays Saturday. Tickets run from Rp 600,000 to Rp 1,000,000 (roughly USD 37 to 62) through Megatix, with VIP tables handled over WhatsApp, which is either refreshingly low-tech or a genuinely bad sign for anyone trying to book a table at 11pm on a Friday.

Nobody's said yet what a regular Tuesday at Zumana sounds like once the opening-weekend headliners go home. That's the part worth watching, not the sculpture.

Cover photo: Zumana, courtesy of Savaya Group via PR Newswire.