Nadat zij in 1991 een reis naar Afrika had gemaakt, begon ze in 1994 met het organiseren van
Berns grew up in Bergen. Ze studied Art and Art Management at the Rijksujiversiteit Groningen.
After a trip to Africa in 1991, she started in 1994 to organize exbibitions of contemporary African art. In this period she also started her own Buro Berns with employers in the cultural world.
Between 2000 and 2006 she and her husband had four boys. In searching for exciting books about art for her boys to read the idea for the Blockbuster series was born.