A CULTURAL LEGACY INITIATIVE
CRT Legacy is a structure designed to steward a finite body of work across time, ensuring its presence, integrity, and relevance through lived experience rather than constant production.
It’s guided by care, restraint, and continuity, letting the work enter cultural spaces quietly and with purpose.
What is CRT Legacy?
CRT Legacy is the initiative that manages and activates the artistic and intellectual patrimony of Carlos Runcie Tanaka. Formally constituted following his passing in 2025, it operates as an independent structure with international mandate, authorized by the artist's estate.
It preserves the work, manages the collections, and brings the practice into new contexts — through loans, exhibitions, research, and editorial projects.
It operates from Aarhus and Lima.
Our work
Our work is guided by a clear intention: to bring Carlos Runcie Tanaka's practice to the places and conversations it belongs to — many of which it never reached in his lifetime.
We are building a sustained international presence across institutions, collections, and cultural networks that reflects the full weight of his contribution to ceramics, installation, and spatial practice, and to the broader questions of diaspora, identity, territory, and transcendence that run through his work.
His practice has things to say to new generations of artists and thinkers. Our role is to make sure it keeps saying them.
The Steward
María José Campos Runcie
Steward & Director of CRT Legacy.
She has lived with Carlos's work all her life. Not as an observer, but as someone shaped by its presence.
With over a decade of experience in design, UX, and global brand strategy, and a background that spans animation, Japanese animated film research, and music, she brings both sensitivity and structure to the work. A shared passion for archaeology and for the material world Carlos inhabited runs through everything she does.
Her role is stewardship through experience.
OTHER CONTRIBUTORSCRT Legacy is supported by a small circle of family members, collaborators, and advisors who contribute to its care, continuity, and governance, including legal and estate management of the work.
Their roles vary over time and context, according to the needs of the work.
CRT around the world
Works by Carlos Runcie Tanaka are held in public and private collections across the Americas and Europe.
