Yon Natalie Mik is a Berlin-based artist and dancer who works through performance exhibitions, text, sound design, images (still/moving) to create expanded forms of durational choreographies. Her work invites the audience to unlearn and reimagine dance as a vehicle to build more inclusive and accessible dialogues. Her work, which is often research-based or employs performative forms of archiving, thrives in diverse environments, including public spaces, schools, service and community centers, and cultural/art venues. Some of her works can be experienced from home, which allows the audience to engage with the work on their own terms and temporality.

Her recent work has explored themes of fragility and illness, labor, migration, transculturation, and eroticism. Past projects such as Studies on Smiling (2019) or Studies on Squats (2020-2024) documented gestures or postures exposing the body politics of Korean migrants in Germany. Her latest project, Massage Shop (2024-), researches the movements of women who work as massage therapists in the wellness and erotic industry. Another recent project titled 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 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.

Some of her recent works were shown at 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).