Yon Natalie Mik (Berlin/Seoul) is a Korean-German choreographer and media artist working across dance, performance, moving image, and sound. Grounded in crip and feminist research, her practice develops performative ways to archive embodied knowledge that persists outside institutional frameworks. Known for her meticulous studies of single bodily movements, she traces everyday gestures, revealing them as portals to overlooked historical and social realities.

Recently, she has been attending to the entanglements of migration and illness, extending her research to questions of labor, fragility, ghost work, and ancestral healing. 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 senses 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 artist residencies by Beursschouwburg, Bâtard Festival (2026), German Research Foundation (2025), Taipei Performing Arts Center (2024), esea contemporary (2024), and Akademie Schloss Solitude (2023). She held guest professorships and delivered lectures at various institutions, including Korea National University of Arts, Seoul (2023/2025/2026); Dutch Art Institute, Arnhem (2024); State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart (2023), Oktoberdans International Dance Festival, Bergen (2022); Gesellschaft für Theaterwissenschaften (GTW) Kongress, Berlin (2022).