Markus Richter is a carpenter, curator, and writer currently 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.

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 in Berlin. Together with Sabrina van der Ley, he curated exhibitions such as Ideal City - Invisible Cities (2006, Zamość and Potsdam) and Megastructure Reloaded (2008, Berlin), both part of the long-term research project Utopia Revisited.

His 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 of which won 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 curated exhibitions like Our Place/ExRotaprint Berlin - Urban Activism as Artistic Practice and Høyblokka revisited - Ideas and Visions.

From 2016-17, Richter 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, and Et sted å være/A Place to be - Contemporary Norwegian Architecture 2011-16.

In the years to follow his focus of interest shifted from contemporary art and architecture towards cultural history. Eventually, he decided to pursue a childhood dream and began working as a carpenter. In 2021, he founded Årsandtun AS, his own company based on the island Rolla in Northern Norway.