Yon Natalie Mik is a Berlin-based artist and dancer working with performance, writing, sound design, and still/moving images to create expanded choreographies and performance exhibitions. Her work invites audiences to reimagine dance as a way of experiencing the world differently and fostering inclusive dialogue. Often research-based, her practice unfolds across diverse environments, including public spaces, schools, service centers, and cultural art venues. Some works can be experienced from home, allowing audiences to engage on their own terms and in their own temporality.

Her recent projects has explored themes of fragility, illness, labor, migration and eroticism. Studies on Smiling (2019) and Studies on Squats (2020-2024) documented gestures and postures that exposed the body politics of Korean migrants in Germany. Her latest project, Massage Shop (2024-), researches the movements of women who work as massage therapists. Sound Dance (2024-) questions the medicalization of healing by collecting daily gestures of care and their relationship to ancestral health science.

Yon Natalie Mik co-founded The Invisible Archive (TIA) in 2019, a multi-authored archive and independent publication project that explores the intersection of art and activism through the lens of performativity and embodiment. TIA is self-organized and produced collaboratively with other artists, researchers, and activists. Her Ph.D. project titled Choreography of the Ghost - Dancing Resistance and Transcultural Archives was part of the research group Normativity, Critique, Change at the Free University of Berlin and funded by the German Research Foundation.

Mik has performed and exhibited at international venues including the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2025), forever gallery, Seoul (2024); Momuro Salon, Seoul (2024); Miss Read Talks, Berlin (2024); Milano Re-Mapped Summer Festival, Pirelli Hangar Bicocca (2022); Project Space Festival, Berlin (2022); Arts at Blue Roof, Los Angeles (2022); Ifa Gallerie, Berlin (2021); Slavs and Tartar Pickle Bar, Berlin (2021); Torrance Art Museum (2021); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2019); Performing Arts Festival Berlin (2019); 182 Art Space, Taipei (2019); Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA (2018); Corner Art Space, Seoul (2017); Downtown Art Center, Los Angeles (2016).

Mik was awarded fellowships, residencies and grants by the Taipei Performing Arts Center (2024), esea contemporary (2024), Akademie Schloss Solitude (2023), the German Research Foundation (2021), and the Korea Foundation (2017). She held guest professorships and delivered lectures at various institutions including the Dutch Art Institute, Arnhem (2024); State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart (2023); Korea National University of Arts, Seoul (2023), Oktoberdans International Dance Festival, Bergen (2022); Gesellschaft für Theaterwissenschaften (GTW) Kongress, Berlin (2022); Freie Universität Berlin (2021); Hamburger Bahnhof Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin (2019).