Profile
DeeNice is the brain behind the Klitty Crew – its grey eminence and godmother, who founded the crew in Zurich on 17 July 2017 at 17:17 with Kinky, SinDee and PoshX. At the monthly meetings at the Dada Kaffee she keeps the black notebook, speaks to wall owners, draws the plans and makes the final call – usually with a quiet 'a bit to the left'. Together with VenRod she studies artists for future interviews, and she steered the crew from its first walls to its zine, its merch and klittycrew.com. She rarely paints in public, prefers to stay a mystery and has no page of her own.
Timeline
- 1987Born at 7:17
DeeNice is born on 17 July 1987 at 7:17 in the morning – the first of many sevens and seventeens in her life.
- 2017Founds the Klitty Crew
Brought Kinky, SinDee and PoshX together and founded the crew in Zurich on 17 July 2017 at 17:17. It was her 30th birthday – she picked the date and the time 17:17 herself. Read more →
- 2017The black notebook
Opened the first black notebook at the Dada Kaffee and set the rules: always ask first, always clean up, always paint together. Read more →
- 2017First sticker swap
Hosted the first December sticker swap with her '17:17' square – the start of a yearly tradition. Read more →
- 2018Seventeen
Designed the 17:17 clock at the centre of the crew's first big mural and made the final call. Read more →
- 2018Artist studies begin
Began studying artists with interview editor VenRod, starting with Blek le Rat in Paris. Read more →
- 2019Studying SEEN in New York
Travelled to New York with VenRod for the study of SEEN. Read more →
- 2020Through the pandemic
Moved the meetings to video calls and kept the crew drawing with windows, postcards and on-screen sketch evenings. Read more →
- 2021Open Again
Wrote 'Open Again' on page one of a new notebook – the crew's comeback wall in Zürich West. Read more →
- 2022Five years and a first portrait
Celebrated five years at 17:17 and was painted for the first time, by Kinky. Read more →
- 2022The sketchbook archive
Started gathering all of the crew's sketchbooks since 2017 into one archive. Read more →
- 2023A year of workshops
Launched the crew's monthly workshop series and designed the border of the tile mural. Read more →
- 2024Klitty Skyline
Named and planned the crew's biggest wall so far and drew its grid and final sketch. Read more →
- 2024The crew zine
After seeing the Zulu Lettre at the Globo in Paris, decided the crew would make its own paper zine. Read more →
- 2025Merch? and a website
Opened a notebook page called 'Merch?' and proposed the crew's own website. Read more →
- 2026klittycrew.com
Saw the merch plan through and set the launch of klittycrew.com for 20 October 2026. Read more →
Murals & projects
| Year | Work | Place | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | KC Hello | Zurich, Kreis 5 | Direction from a crate with the notebook |
| 2018 | Seventeen | Zurich, Zürich West | The 17:17 clock and the final call |
| 2019 | Baikal Blue | Zurich, Kreis 4 | Found the wall; plan and ladder |
| 2021 | Open Again | Zurich, Zürich West | Plan and palette |
| 2022 | Bridge wall | Stockholm, by the water | Two cats shaking paws in the middle; merged design |
| 2023 | Tile mural | Zurich, Zürich West | The border holding the four squares together |
| 2024 | Klitty Skyline | Zurich, Zürich West | Full plan, grid and final sketch; painted on the bridge behind the scaffolding cloth |
| 2025 | Paws Up | Zurich, Kreis 4 | Details and clean-up |
| 2026 | Where It Started | Zurich, Kreis 5 | A secret detail: a tiny clock showing 17:17 |
Travels
- 2018 – Paris (study: Blek le Rat)
- 2019 – Berlin (crew trip)
- 2019 – Paris (study: André)
- 2019 – Barcelona (crew trip)
- 2019 – New York (study: SEEN)
- 2020 – Barcelona (study: Art is Trash)
- 2021 – Berlin (study: Mode 2)
- 2022 – Paris (study: Bando)
- 2022 – Stockholm (joint bridge wall)
- 2022 – New York (tribute: Rammellzee)
- 2023 – Lisbon (sketching trip)
- 2023 – Barcelona (study: Camil Escruela)
- 2024 – Paris (Zulu Lettre at the Globo)
- 2024 – New York (study: Futura 2000)
- 2025 – New York (tributes: Dondi White, Vaughn Bodē)
- 2025 – Paris (Zulu Lettre at the Globo)
- 2025 – Barcelona ("Four Cats, One Sea")
- 2026 – Paris (Zulu Lettre at the Globo; BandO1 show and letter lesson)
The Klitty Crew is a comic universe – all stories, meetings and events on this blog are fiction. Real artists, magazines and places only appear as inspiration; no real meetings, statements or endorsements are implied.