After completing her apprenticeship as a carpenter, she studied industrial design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. She then taught design history there (1994 to 2000). In 2006, she founded Vienna Design Week with Lilli Hollein and Thomas Geisler and was co-director until 2013. From 2001 to 2013, she also worked as a freelance design curator for exhibition projects throughout Europe. From 2014 to 2018, Beyerle was Director of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden, Schloss Pillnitz, and also a member of the Management Board of the Dresden State Art Collections, one of Germany's leading museum associations. She has been Director of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg since December 2018