Yon Natalie Mik is a Korean-German dancemaker who works between Berlin and Seoul. She creates choreographies, performances, video- and sound installations. Grounded in crip and feminist discourse, her practice explores performative ways to archive embodied knowledge that persists outside institutional recognition. Her works are known for closely studying a single movement, treating it as a portal to overlooked realities.

Recently, she has been examining the entanglements of race and disability, extending her research to questions of migration, labor, fragility, ghost work, ancestral healing, and medical capitalism. She is currently teaching as a guest artist professor at the Korea National University of Arts.

Yon Natalie Mik co-founded The Invisible Archive (TIA) in 2019, a multi-authored archive on performances that explores the intersection of art and activism through publishing. TIA is self-organized and produced collaboratively with other artists, researchers, and activists. Her DFG-funded Ph.D. project titled Choreography of the Ghost - Dancing Resistance and Transcultural Archives was awarded ‘summa cum laude’, and was developed as part of the Graduiertenkolleg Normativity, Critique, Change at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Mik has presented her work at international venues including the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2026); Seoul International Dance Festival (2026); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea, Seoul (2025), einBuch.Haus, Berlin (2025); forever gallery, Seoul (2024); Kunsthaus ACUD, Berlin (2024); Kunstraum Mitte, Berlin (2024); Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan (2022); Project Space Festival, Berlin (2022).

She was awarded fellowships and residencies by the Bâtard Festival (2026), Taipei Performing Arts Center (2024), esea contemporary (2024), Akademie Schloss Solitude (2023-24), and the German Research Foundation (2021). 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 (2023/2025/2026), Oktoberdans International Dance Festival, Bergen (2022); Gesellschaft für Theaterwissenschaften (GTW) Kongress, Berlin (2022).