IT may have only opened it’s doors in February, but Raven Row has already caused a stir in the art world, with one critic even remarking the galleries were “jaw-droppingly elegant”.

Now, for its second show, this new non-profit contemporary art centre in Spitalfields is treating visitors to two internationally recognised artists, unfamiliar to a London audience, who will show a collection of film, objects and sound works.

Working since the mid-60s, German-born Thomas Bayrle is now recognised as key to a European kind of pop art. This show will be his biggest London exhibition to date, and rather fittingly, he has created a selection of large-scale sculptures by replicating a single unit to produce mass structures. Serving to describe a world suspended between positive collectivism and deadening uniformity, Thomas has also used “the metaphor of the highway to characterise a state of modernity where we are racing to a stand still”.

Complementing Thomas’ collection, Scandinavian artist Anne Lislegaard has drawn on classic science fiction, such as Ursula K Le Guin’s pioneering feminist novel The Left Hand of Darkness to construct both psychological and external states through animation and sound.

Running parallel to the exhibition, the international activist collective Ultra-Red will host workshops using sound to investigate community organising.

The exhibition runs at Raven Row, Artillery Lane, London, from Thursday, May 28, until Sunday, August 2. Details: 020 7377 4300 or www.ravenrow.org