Bananafish Books

Bananafish Books BANANAFISH BOOKS is an independent publications bookstore based in Shanghai. Drop us an email for future connection.

We are a shop, zine and artist’s books publishing house and social space that is unique to the Chinese young people in providing a platform for zines, artist's books, journals, poetry, art writing and unique magazines from independent publishers and artists who do self-publishing and love zines! Bananafish Books hosts a dynamic programme of monthly workshops, mini exhibitions, design projects, tal

ks, and small art book fairs, providing a stimulating context in which to exchange ideas and spread the culture of zines in mainland China. We are also looking for different artists around the world who has collaborations with zines and artist’s books, no matter it is for bookshop selling or co-publishing. Under the brand Bananafish Books, we also provide Risograph printing services (called Pausebread Press) for different clients. Currently we stock two risograph machines in house and 16 risograph colors for your vibrant and special printing projects. Please check www.bananafish-books.com for more infomation and much more printing projects we have done.

BANANAFISH Shanghai | mini zine 豆本 まめほん Workshop in Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum  6.28本次工作坊邀请大小朋友们展开香蕉鱼豆本阅读及豆本绘画故事创作之旅,体...
03/07/2025

BANANAFISH Shanghai | mini zine 豆本 まめほん Workshop in Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum 6.28

本次工作坊邀请大小朋友们展开香蕉鱼豆本阅读及豆本绘画故事创作之旅,体验从选纸、构思、绘画、创作、裁切到折叠、装订的完整流程,并通过绘画、涂鸦、文字撰写等多种方式创作专属于自己家庭的亲子手工书,共同见证创意的诞生。

翻动小豆本书,如同打开一个微缩的宇宙,也如同阅读一篇浓缩的小说,在方寸间建造了丰富的创意深度。小豆本也是传递孩子们独特视角与感知的绝佳载体,它形式轻巧却潜力无限:折叠方式、插画风格、故事叙事、色彩空间运用……都充满了探索的可能性。

豆本欢乐多~

03/07/2025
mini UNFOLD  7.2-7.15  OPEN!
03/07/2025

mini UNFOLD 7.2-7.15

OPEN!

around book objects, prints, books and others. Congratulations on  solo exhibition at Bananafish Gallery in Shanghai, op...
21/06/2025

around book objects, prints, books and others. Congratulations on solo exhibition at Bananafish Gallery in Shanghai, opening~!

New Exhibition at BANANAFISH Gallery:In Memory of Hinoki: Isamu Hazama 2025 6.20-7.20Hongbaoshi Rd.7, Shanghai 香蕉鱼书店非常荣幸...
20/06/2025

New Exhibition at BANANAFISH Gallery:
In Memory of Hinoki: Isamu Hazama


2025 6.20-7.20
Hongbaoshi Rd.7, Shanghai

香蕉鱼书店非常荣幸在六月为公众呈现日本艺术家Isamu Hazama在上海的作品个展。

一片精心养护的桧木树林于2023年在和歌山县因山体滑坡而被摧毁,日本艺术家硲(yù)勇(Isamu Hazama)因此倍感惋惜,于是他通过收集来的原木创作了两个系列的艺术作品来纪念它们。硲勇善于利用桧木的材料特性来表现其本质,并从不同的视⻆来剖析其形态和背后的含义。

正如年轮所显示的时间,我们看到的不仅仅是几张纸或是几本书,而是它们历经了近60年的成⻓与岁月,以及戛然而止的来自大自然的悲剧故事。人之记忆,木之温度。翻阅它们、解读它们,直到成为它们。人类与桧木同为生命的某种躯体存在于大地之上,在不断地蜕变与重构之后,形成了现在的模样。 艺术家用自己的方式向我们再现了这份重生的力量,它既是死亡的延续,又是希望的起点。或许,我们可以从中窥⻅一些关于生命意义的答案。 

硲勇(Isamu Hazama),设计师,他在日本和歌山地区自然丰饶的里山设立了一家设计工作室,一边从事产品及视觉方向设计工作,一边探索当地的材料,利用工作室周围能获取的材料展开创作。诸如废弃的无用之物、别人赠送的物品,以及山居生活中所得之物等……一直以来他不以“搜寻”、“收藏”这种主动的心态去获取材料,抱着“对眼前出现的材料稍加处理,从而提供全新视角”的方式进行着山间里的艺术创作。

余少龑(yǎn) ,艺术家、摄影师、书法家、诗人。现居上海。2011年毕业于湖北美术学院国画系首届书法专业。2012至2020年间,留学并旅居德国杜塞尔多夫和柏林,摄影专业研究生毕业。2021年于上海成立“余少龑艺术工作室”。作品曾多次展览于国内外美术馆、画廊和摄影节,包括德国柏林Kunstquartier Bethanien、Camera Austria、UE,奥地利维也纳 Brotfabrik Wien,北京/厦⻔三影堂摄影艺术中心。

One day just before our UNFOLD Shenzhen Edition , two of us worked over night together and finished riso printing and bi...
17/06/2025

One day just before our UNFOLD Shenzhen Edition , two of us worked over night together and finished riso printing and binding for dear .samuelsson and , black only but shiningly beautiful book: Houses.

We are happy to see it will be presented at in time! And congratulations 🎊 to .samuelsson of your exhibition in two cities!

UNFOLD 2025 Shenzhen Edition 6.6-6.8 Thank you all the exhibitors and visitors!
11/06/2025

UNFOLD 2025 Shenzhen Edition 6.6-6.8
Thank you all the exhibitors and visitors!

Another year UNFOLD by the sea, 😇 gratefully.
30/05/2025

Another year UNFOLD by the sea, 😇 gratefully.

here and there 1-13.5  bookshop This is a small art and design bookshop in the city of Zhou Shan by our good friends Kaf...
07/05/2025

here and there 1-13.5 bookshop

This is a small art and design bookshop in the city of Zhou Shan by our good friends Kafka and Yang since 2015. Wow, just realized it has been ten years! They have been consistently selecting good magazines and design/art books for readers in local and friends customers around. Please check their instagram and see those amazing books and its lovely space!

Good morning in Shanghai~! We have some new and restocked books for shelf of Bananafish Books! Come and 👀
06/05/2025

Good morning in Shanghai~!
We have some new and restocked books for shelf of Bananafish Books! Come and 👀

here and there 1-13.5 finally displaying at the bookshelf of BANANAFISH! 《here and there》是由前资生堂文化杂志《花椿》编辑林央子  自2002年创办的一...
03/05/2025

here and there 1-13.5 finally displaying at the bookshelf of BANANAFISH!

《here and there》是由前资生堂文化杂志《花椿》编辑林央子 自2002年创办的一本独立杂志。创刊以来以其独特的编辑手法融合时尚、艺术与文化,以承载着「记录自己的时间、朋友以及值得记录的事件」的DIY精神,与传统杂志的固定模式区分开来,强调其个性化特质逐渐在小众群体和独立创作者中受到欢迎。

本次全新合集出版项目为2012年由Nieves Books出版的《here and there Vol.1 - Vol.10 》合集增订版,加入了第11期至第13.5期内容;为纪念本书的出版,林央子邀请了多位老友共同撰写寄语和回忆一并收录其中,同时作为从第1期到第13.5期设计师的服部一成@ 也为本书创作了全新的封面和封底作品纪念他为参与这本杂志的时光。

《here and there Vol.1 - Vol.13.5》
主编:林央子
书籍设计:服部一成
出版策划:苏菲
项目监制:关暐
出版:BANANAFISH BOOKS,Nieves Books

发行:中国图书进出口上海有限公司、上海版语文化传播有限公司, Sakumoto

开本:210mm x 297mm x 50mm
页数:880页
纸张:内文 Munken Print White 80gsm
封面 Munken Pure Rough 300gsm
内页:四色印刷
封面封底工艺:黑白蓝三色丝网印刷

For orders outside of China mainland, you could buy it from ~! Later will be

These solid color graphics look so cute and energizing in the springtime shrine. (Today‘s Dazaifu is swarmed by high sch...
18/04/2025

These solid color graphics look so cute and energizing in the springtime shrine. (Today‘s Dazaifu is swarmed by high school students, packing each morning train to the brim :)

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长宁区红宝石路7号
Shanghai
201106

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Tuesday 12:00 - 20:00
Wednesday 12:00 - 20:00
Thursday 12:00 - 20:00
Friday 12:00 - 20:00
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