Yon Natalie Mik is Korean-German-American dancer, choreographer, and visual artist who works between Berlin and Seoul. She creates live performances, video, and dance notations in the form of drawings and sculptural objects. Grounded in crip theory and feminist discourse, her practice explores performative and collaborative ways to archive embodied knowledge that persists outside institutional recognition. Her works are known for isolating and closely studying a single gesture, posture, or movement, treating it as a portal to oppressed histories and overlooked socio-political realities.

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

Yon Natalie Mik co-founded The Invisible Archive (TIA) in 2019, a multi-authored archive and 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 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 (2021-25). 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).