Public Art Caught Kissing (9 Photos)

November 8, 2026

By Vidar

A Kiss at Every Scale

A kiss can fill a whole building, hide in a patch of lichen or happen between a visitor and a sculpture. These nine public artworks catch that instant at every scale.

🖤 Paolo and Francesca’s First Kiss — By Afzan Pirzade in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France 🇫🇷

Pirzade turns Rose O’Neill’s 1911 drawing into a monumental black-and-white scene. Paolo and Francesca come from Dante’s Divine Comedy, and the mural, at 98 Rue de la Paix, was painted for Street Art Boulogne-sur-Mer 2026.

💋 A Kiss Across the Bench — Jeju, South Korea 🇰🇷

At Jeju Loveland, a visitor leans across a bench to kiss one of the park’s statues. The statue keeps a straight face.

💡 Park Fact: Jeju Loveland opened on November 16, 2004. Its sculptures were made by graduates of Seoul’s Hongik University, who started work on them in 2002.

💨 Air Kiss — By Gleb Kashtanov in Vitebsk, Belarus 🇧🇾

A woman blows a kiss from high up on an apartment building in Vitebsk. Kashtanov painted the gesture across the building’s side, big enough to be seen from the street below.

🤠 The Texan Kiss — By Eduardo Kobra in Houston, Texas, USA 🇺🇸

A cowboy and a woman meet in front of the Lone Star in Kobra’s The Texan Kiss, a Texas-sized reworking of the famous 1945 Times Square embrace. It went up in 2026 at Texas Avenue and Caroline Street as part of Big Art. Bigger Change, a series of 58 large murals produced by Street Art for Mankind in downtown Houston.

💡 Artist Fact: This is not Kobra’s first wall based on Alfred Eisenstaedt’s V-J Day photo. An earlier version, The Kiss in New York City, was painted over by the building’s owner in 2016.

More: 19 Murals by Eduardo Kobra

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📷 Photo: Charles Holt

💛 L’attimo — By Tony Gallo in Wernigerode, Germany 🇩🇪

Two figures in animal hoods hold hands and lean in for a kiss against a yellow wall. The Italian artist painted it on a housing block at Am Kastanienwäldchen, one of several facades the local housing company GWW had painted by Tony Gallo, Alessio-B. and Mura.

🌧️ Masked Kiss in the Rain — By Elfy and SLIDER in Glasgow, UK 🇬🇧

Rain beads on two masked comic-book figures just before their lips meet.

💡 Festival Fact: Yardworks, Glasgow’s street art festival, marked its 10th anniversary in 2026, with the SWG3 arts venue as its main hub. The same edition finished a three-year project to paint 16 pillars of the Kingston Bridge.

📷 Photo: Ikul