Bernd Ebert has served as Director General of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden State Art Collections) since May 2025. In this role, he leads one of the world’s most renowned cultural institutions, encompassing 20 museums, art collections, and archives.

He began his career at the National Museums in Berlin in 2005, curating the exhibition Circle Sphere Cosmos at the Pergamon Museum. From 2007 to 2013, he served as Academic Advisor to the Director General and the Senior Officer for International Relations, coordinating research and scholarship initiatives and leading international cooperation across the collections. His work contributed to European Union-led collaborations with national museums in China, Japan, the UAE, the United States, Brazil, and Georgia.

From 2013 to 2025, Ebert was Chief Curator of Dutch and German Baroque Painting at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, part of the Bavarian State Painting Collections. Among the major exhibitions and accompanying catalogues he co-curated and edited are Utrecht, Caravaggio and Europe (2018), Jacobus Vrel – Looking for Clues of an Enigmatic Painter (2020), and Rachel Ruysch – Nature into Art (2024).

Ebert holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Bonn with a doctoral thesis on the Dutch painters Simon (1610-1661) and Isaack Luttichuys (1616-1673). In 2011, he was a visiting fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Before studying Art History, Business Economics and Law at the University of Bonn, he was a trainee at the Deutsche Bank in Dresden.