Markus Richter is a carpenter, curator, and writer based in Northern Norway. Born 1964 in Trier, Germany, he studied art history, philosophy and literature at Freie Universität in Berlin and began to work on art and architecture related projects in the early 1990s. He has been living in Norway since 2011; first in Oslo and now up north on Rolla island in Troms county.

From 1995-96 he was a publisher of fine art prints and multiples, and subsequentely founded Galerie Markus Richter focusing on contemporary minimal and conceptual art. In 2002, he was co-founder of European Art Projects, an independent curatorial platform based in Berlin. Together with Sabrina van der Ley, he curated the European Art Projects exhibitions Ideal City - Invisible Cities 2006 in Zamość, Poland and Potsdam, Germany and Megastructure Reloaded 2008 in Berlin; both part of Utopia Revisited, a long-term research and exhibition project.

Later independent projects include Transatlantische Impulse at Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 2010 and We are all Astronauts - Universe Richard Buckminster Fuller reflected in Contemporary Art at MARTa Herford, 2011; the latter has been awarded with the Justus-Bier-Curators-Prize. From 2013-14 Richter served as director of 0047, an Oslo-based non-profit space for art and architecture, where he, amongst others, curated the exhibitions Our Place/ExRotaprint Berlin - Urban Activism as Artistic Practice and Høyblokka revisited - Ideas and Visions.

From 2016-17 he worked at the National Museum - Architectue in Oslo, curating the exhibitions Casa de Vidro. Lina Bo Bardi in dialogue with Sverre Fehn, Det norske glasshuset/The Norwegian Glasshouse (jointly with Talette Rørvik Simonsen), and Et sted å være/A Place to be - Contemporary Norwegian Architecture 2011-16.

After moving to the remote island Rolla, the focus of interest shifted from contemporary art and architecture towards cultural history. Richter eventually decided to chase a childhood dream and started working as a carpenter.