Minerva Hase & Nikita Volodin
The surprise couple

Also taking part in Art on Ice are Berlin pairs skaters Minerva Hase and Nikita Volodin, third-placed at the 2024 World Figure Skating Championships in Montreal, Canada and gold winner at the European Championship 2025. The high-flying pair have risen rapidly. The couple have only been skating together since June 2022 and, thanks to hard work and a good partnership, surprised everyone in their first international season, in 2023, with two Grand Prix victories and the German championship.
The pair also made an excellent start to the current season at the Nebelhorn Trophy in Oberstdorf in September 2024. They won with a personal best in both programmes.
Now they have topped their success with the gold medal at the 2025 European Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, and say enthusiastically: ‘We are delighted to have won European Championship gold. It is the reward for over 20 years of hard work. Before our partnership, we both never thought that we would be standing at the top of a European Championship podium. We are already looking forward to Art on Ice to celebrate our victory with the skating community in front of so many skating enthusiasts. The show is pure madness and it’s a great pleasure for us to be part of it again this year.’