2025

Bar Manager: Gabriel Leașcu

DJ Sets: SoftboiBeni, Enrique Salgado, Somebody’s daughters, Wishez, Tesha, Maik, Mits & Fots, Dimitra Ūn, Void96, Seafish & the Croc, Dragos Rusu, S-Tone, Milan Matek, Leascv, Carnival Queen, Lowla, Dean, Nas, Chlorys, CCA Djs

Live sets: Plevna, Suce Fraga, Los Volcanos

Drag Show: Chraja

2024

Gary’s Bar is a fringe, safe space at the crossroads of class and trash; a cinematic nostalgic lust for the queer future-past. Multicultural at its core it represents both freedom and biogtry as seen through the eyes of others.

Bar Manager: Gabriel Leașcu

Season bookings:
Admina (RO) dj set
Chraja (GR) drag show
Claudia (RO) dj set
Dimitra Un (GR) dj set
K not K (RO) live band + performance
Leascv (RO) dj set
Somebody’s Daughters (RO) dj set
Tzivanal (GR) live band
Ycs (RO) dj set

2023

Gary’s Bar is an experiment complimentary to the Santozeum art space- an artist run space in its inaugural year, a meeting place for people and communities, a platform for idea and experience exchanges, and most importantly a place where fun and love are never lacking. Works of art are a part of its identity, as are nightly guided tours of the exhibition space, blending culture and good humour.

One of the permanent artworks in Gary’s bar is the site-specific work by Hungarian-born artist and designer Olah Gyarfas. The monumental sculpture on the back wall of the bar, modeled in polystyrene and plaster, is inspired by the shapes, carefully shaped by wind and water, on the shore of the Vlychada beach on the island’s south coast. In addition to the work, imposing in its size, made up of organic shapes, the artist also designed the entire bar using sandy shades decorated with other natural elements picked by the artist himself from the same beach. Gary’s bar aesthetic embodies the sensitivity and delicacy that characterizes Gyarfas’s entire work.

Bar Manager: Robert Bajenaru of Cazul 101, Bucharest