The Dresden State Art Collections (SKD) will have a new commercial director: Cornelia Rabeneck. The appointment was made on the recommendation of an independent selection committee and was presented to the Saxon Cabinet on Monday. Cornelia Rabeneck will take up her post on 1 August 2024. Born in Dresden in 1972, she succeeds the previous Commercial Director Dirk Burghardt.
Image above: Cornelia Rabeneck © Foto: Anja Puechel
Marion Ackermann, Director General of the Dresden State Art Collections: ‘Cornelia Rabeneck is an excellent choice. She has an impressive career, comes from Saxony and at the same time brings a fresh view from the outside from the perspective of university administration. I am certain that, thanks to her outstanding managerial qualities, she will master the many challenges facing a globally active museum organisation like the SKD and lead the diverse art collections into the future with agility and innovation.”
Cornelia Rabeneck: ‘I am looking forward to leading this internationally unique museum network together with the Director General and the employees through a time of great change. We are undergoing digital transformations worldwide that need to be shaped. The collections, which were one of the first in Europe to be made accessible to the public in the 18th century, have always characterised the image and culture of my home town. It is a matter close to my heart to preserve this tradition and at the same time make it fit for the future in order to safeguard the excellent quality and international significance of the Dresden State Art Collections for current and future generations.”
Vita of Cornelia Rabeneck:
Cornelia Rabeneck was born in Dresden in 1972. She studied business administration at the University of Applied Sciences in Dresden. She then completed a postgraduate degree in Health Care Management at Dresden International University and Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden) while working and obtained a Master of Business Administration in Health Care Management from TU Dresden in 2010. She has worked in personnel controlling at the Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital since 2004, and in a managerial role since 2005, where she was responsible for 1,400 employees.
In 2011, Cornelia Rabeneck was promoted to Administrative Director of the Children’s Women’s Centre at the University Hospital. Since 2014, she has worked as Head of the Department of Medicine and Head of Faculty Administration at the Carl Gustav Carus Dresden Faculty of Medicine, both at TU Dresden. Here she was responsible for central management tasks in the administrative management of the Department of Medicine and the Faculty Administration.
Cornelia Rabeneck is also involved in voluntary work in her home town, both culturally and in the church.
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