Recently named by the Spanish Association of Art Critics as the most influential exhibition organized at the Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Cocido y Crudo began as an effort to develop a post-colonial response to Jean-Hubert Martin's 1989 exhibition Les Magiciens de la Terre, generally cited as the first exhibition of global art.

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With 86 participating artists from more than 40 countries, Cocido y Crudo filled the entire fourth floor of the museum, following an exhibition plan designed in collaboration with Madrid architect Marcos Corrales. Among the artists who developed site-specific installations for the project were Janine Antoni, Stefano Arienti, Sergei Bugaev/Afrika, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Genevieve Cadieux, Victoria Civera, Juan Dávila, Wim Delvoye, Mark Dion, Eugenio Dittborn, Willie Doherty, Marlene Dumas, Jimmie Durham, Maria Eichhorn, Sylvie Fleury, Renée Green, Jose Antonio Hernandez-Diez, Narelle Jubelin, KCHO, Martin Kippenberger, Svetlana Kopystiansky, Paul McCarthy, Marlene McCarty, Tatsuo Miyajima, Juan Luis Moraza, Jean-Baptiste Ngetchopa, Marcel Odenbach, Vong Phaophanit, Rosângela Renno, Allen Ruppersberg, Doris Salcedo, Julia Scher, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Fred Wilson, and Xu Bing.