Q&A – Marwan Kheireddine

An avid Lebanese contemporary art enthusiast, Marwan Kheireddine, chief executive officer at Al Mawarid Bank, recently sat down with Executive to talk about his personal art collection, his take on the booming Middle Eastern arts scene and ‘passion’ investments. When did you first start collecting art? I always had an eye for art. My father collects art [and] I started my own collection some 10 years ago by getting interested in [Mustafa] Farroukh [a pioneer in Lebanese contemporary art]. Someone told me that he was the art teacher at my school, at International College [in Beirut], so I started buying some [of his works] here and there. I moved to buying any and everything that I liked. Then I realized that maybe for the sake of having an ice collection, I should concentrate on something and at some point I concentrated on Lebanese artists [with a theme of] war in