GRANTS
2024-2025 Mondriaan Start, Mondriaan fonds
2024 ULTRAKORT, Het Nederlands Filmfonds, 'Wad is, is nu'
2024 Stichting Stokroos Seed Grant
2024 Mondriaan Fonds Ontwikkeling
2023 Tarkovski Grant
2022 AFK Stipendium
2021 Gemeente Amsterdam, Project Grant
2021 VSB, NJR, Project Grant
2021 AFK, Project Grant
AWARDS/NOMINATIONS
2024 Nominated Community Awards - Rising Star, AWOL / Young Dogs (Jonge Honden)
2024 Best Animation Award, Athens International Art Film Festival
2024 Winner Rialto for Short II
2024 Nominated Best Animation, People's Picturehouse Cork, Ireland
2022 Nomination Parool Beeldmaker
(UPCOMING) RESIDENCIES
2024 Working Artist Studios - Ballydehob, Ireland (january - may)
2023 Crithir, West Cork, Ireland (september 2023 - december 2023)
2023 Fish Factory - Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland (may)
2022 Studio Kura - Fukuoka, Japan (November)
EXHIBITIONS
2024 July 5 - July 27, Pulling Strings, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (group: Remy Neumann, Oscar Peters, Isa van Lier, Iekeliene Stange, Máté Kohout, Werner van der Zwan, Toto Kersten)
2023 August - September - Stockwerk Project Plant Blindness Vol II, Weimar, Germany (group)
2023 August - September - CICA (Czong Institute for Contemporary Art) South Korea (group)
2023 August 10-14 - Re-writing us for the future, AMP Gallery, London
2022 Studio Kura, Itoshima, Japan (group)
TALKS/LECTURES
2024 july 20 - Workshop Stop Motion, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2024 march 14 - Artist Talk, Working Artist Studio, Ballydehob, Ireland
EDUCATION / EXPERIENCES
2025 School of Puppets Advanced, Haags Theaterhuis
2024 Miniature Costume Fabrication for Stop Motion, Level I, Annika Schindler
2023 Stop Motion Wire Puppet Building, Jennifer Kid
2020 Minor Heritage and Built Environment, VU University
2020 Minor Exhibiting and Cultural Entrepreneurship, Reinwardt Academy, Amsterdam University of the Arts
2017 BA Cultural Heritage, Reinwardt Academy, Amsterdam University of the Arts
2017 Socratic Design Lab Humerto Schwab
2016 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, pre-course
FILM SCREENINGS / FILM FESTIVALS
Rialto for short Finale season 6, Body's Blindness, December 10th 2024, Rialto, Amsterdam, NL
Winning films, K(O)ORTS / Weird, Wicked, & Wonderfull, September 20 2024, Body's Blindness, Vestzaktheater, Enschede, The Netherlands
K(O)ORTS / Weird, Wicked, & Wonderfull, September 19+20 2024, Body's Blindness, Concordia, Enschede, The Netherlands
National Lasta Festival 2024 Online Short Film Programme, Body's Blindness, June 2 2024, Ireland
Rialto for Short - season 6, edition 2, June 4th 2024, Body's Blindness, Rialto, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Award winner, Best Animation, Athens International Art Film Festival, Body's Blindness, May 2024, Athens, Greece
Official selection Frome Climate Film Festival, Body's Blindness, May 29th 2024, Frome, UK
Official selection NewFilmmakers NY 2024, Body's Blindness, New York USA
Official selection Amsterdam Independent Film Festival 2023, Silent Frequencies, LAB111 Amsterdam NL
SELECTED CLIENTS
2024 NEMO Kennislink
2023 VPRO / NPO3 - De Ongestelde Vragenshow
2023 Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst
2022 Hivos
2022 Podimo - Dag en Nacht Media
2021 HUMAN - 3FM
2021 VPRO Medialab/NPO3 - Maandverbond
2021 Echt Gebeurd - podcast
2020 Het Financieel Dagblad - Studio Europa
2020 VPRO Medialab
PRESS/PUBLICATIONS/FEATURES
https://www.filmfonds.nl/actueel/ultrakort-2025-vijf-animatiefilms-geselecteerd
https://www.videosoundarchive.com/archive-s7/jikke-lesterhuis
https://artworkgallery.net/art_magazine_issue2/
https://www.altiba9.com/artist-interviews/jikke-lesterhuis-multidisciplinary-animation-drawing
https://www.parool.nl/kunst-media/deze-tien-creatieve-talenten-strijden-om-ruimte-in-het-parool~bc8b48cf/
https://www.trouw.nl/cultuur-media/maandverbond-wil-het-gesprek-over-menstruatie-normaliseren~b2e58ee1/
https://dezwijger.nl/programma/wekelijkse-update-uit-onze-stad-18
https://fd.nl/opinie/1367596/meer-europa-dat-is-voor-jongeren-een-no-brainer
https://www.areweeurope.com/stories/could-prayer-become-gayer-viola-stefanello
