CODART member Bernd Ebert has been appointed director of the Dresden State Art Collections (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden – SKD), effective 1 May 2025.  He will lead the SKD, an association of fifteen museums with a total of around three million objects, until the end of 2033. Ebert succeeds Marion Ackermann, who is set to become President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin this summer.

Since 2013, Bernd Ebert has been the Chief Curator of Dutch and German Baroque Painting of Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen in Munich and is responsible for the State Galleries in Bayreuth and Bamberg. From 2005 to 2013, he worked at the National Museums in Berlin, initially as a research assistant in the General Directorate and the Gemäldegalerie, and subsequently as a scientific advisor to the Director General. He also held positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Newtown Galleries in Johannesburg, the National Gallery of South Africa and the Irma Stern Museum in Capetown, and has experience working for private collections and the art trade.

Over the years he curated many (international) exhibitions,  including Utrecht, Caravaggio and Europa (Utrecht, Munich 2018/19), Jacobus Vrel: Looking for Clues of an Enigmatic Painter (Munich, The Hague and Paris (2021/23) and most recently Rachel Ruysch. Nature into Art (Munich, Toledo and Boston, 2024/25).

Bernd Ebert has been a member of CODART since 2009. In April of 2024, he was highlighted as our Curator in the Spotlight.