Yon Natalie Mik is an artist, dancer, and choreographer working across performance, video, sound, and sculpture. Her practice employs methods of fieldwork and movement research that are grounded in feminist and crip theory. Her work is known for creating speculative worlds through the close study of a single gesture, posture, or movement, treating it as a portal to oppressed histories or overlooked socio-political realities.

Her recent body of work examined the entanglements of race and disability, extending into questions of intimate labor, ghost work, ancestral healing, capital-driven medical systems, and women in migration networks. She is currently teaching as a guest artist at the Korea National University of Arts and is based in Berlin and Seoul.

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 MMCA, Seoul (2025), forever gallery, Seoul (2024); Momuro Salon, Seoul (2024); Miss Read Talks, Berlin (2024); Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan (2022); Project Space Festival, Berlin (2022); Ifa Gallerie, Berlin (2021); Pickle Bar, Berlin (2021); Torrance Art Museum (2021); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2019); Performing Arts Festival Berlin (2019).

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); and Freie Universität Berlin (2021).